Primus Luta presents: Proto-Heads
Primus Luta, who you may remember from his excellent ‘Beat Construction’ guest mix we aired at the beginning of the year, has just released a new project. Entitled ‘Proto-Heads’ is a truly fascinating and engrossing effort that takes in audio, video and more by way of what could well be the world’s first interactive mixtape. Trailer is above.
The release is composed of an album of early tracks composed by Primus Luta on the Monome, available for free, an extras album, available for a ‘name-your-fee’ price, with all instrumentals and an hour of bonus music and finally the interactive mixtape. I’ve included all the links below as well as some more explanation from the man – so get stuck in!
We’ve been bumping the album for a few days now – its rather rugged aesthetic works nicely, especially when you give your attention to the music as there’s a lot going on at certain times. I recommend you grab this for the forthcoming holiday season and bump it loud!
Release – http://store.avanturb.com/album/presents-proto-heads
Interactive Mix – http://protoheads.avanturb.com
Extras – http://store.avanturb.com/album/presents-proto-heads-extras
Proto-Heads is a collection of early experiments for the monome created by Primus Luta between 2006-2008. The release itself is a mixtape using a selection of Proto-Heads tracks blended with vocals by everyone from Ghostface to Peter Gabriel. It is available as a free download from the AvantUrb store.
In addition the release is paired with an interactive mixtape. The interactive experience gives users a visual guide to the music with commentary from Primus Luta, with links to related media, including videos and monome notation. This experience created by GtP Studios may represent the first online interactive mixtape as well as the first mixtape exclusively made with monome music.
The last part of this package is the Extras. This is a name your own price paid download which includes the instrumental version of the release and over an hour of bonus music.
As previously stated, all of this music dates back to 2008 and earlier, so as an additional bonus one of the more recent Primus Luta productions has been uploaded for streaming.
http://soundcloud.com/primusluta/wotue-instrumental
This is a cover of the classic Autechre song ”Eutow”. The bulk of this was done on the monome including the drums (mnlg), synths (4|5clcs) and all of the effects.
Everything is live right now. Feel free to reach out if you have any questions.
Thanks in advance for your support.
Primus Luta – http://avanturb.com
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