Biography
Mostly known as Reverse Tunes, Manormouse is the more chilled-out musical personality of Bruno Tozzini, producer and cultural disseminator which already made history in São Paulo state with deceased TEMP organization.
The Manormouse project started in 2006, in a period of 3 months of homey reclusion exclusive for producing music. "I had just quit a job and wanted to take a relaxing break from the noisy stuff i'd been playing and had no patience to go making breakcore sounds. I've even made 1 track in the style, but nothing after that; I been dealing with all the songs in this album since that time and could just finish them now. Apart from 'Low on Ice', which entered tracklisting as a bonus: because it's one i haven't worked upon anymore, so it's got a rawer side, you can check it hasn't the sound quality of the others. But I like it.", that's how Bruno defines the EP concept; a twisted mix of dub, triphop and downtempo.
Influences go from Silver Apples, Peeping Tom and Primal Scream ("Shoot" is a version of "Trainspotting", from 'Vanishing Point' album) to the heavy dub of frenchmen High Tone and the trippy void of Massive Attack. Tracks are full of textures, effects and slow psychedelic sections.
Manormouse's creation method is quite personal: "I programmed various drum sets and in almost all of them I use samples of faster bpm and go decelerating them, I also used a sample of a Sublime's tune in 'High State' and one dialogue sample from the Godfather movie ('Superstitious')" explains.
All basslines, synths, melodica ('High State'), piano ('13th Floor') and textures, were made with a Midi Oxygen 8 keyboard, using synthsizers from Cubase and Reason softwares. The keyboard sequence in '13th Floor' was straightforwardly recorded. it sounds complex, but was total freestyle.
Final master work was in charge of Raul Retrigger, breakcore's top producer and friend, adding extra weight to the production. Sleeve's Artwork was done by Bruno himself, based on a photo taken by his wife Roberta Van De Velde.
The item's title is taken from a text about some psychedelic 60s band, where it said one of the members 'had never fully recovered' from LSD's excess usage. And this is the central idea on the EP: after you listen it, your neurons will stay boiling and never be the same again.
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