Workaround
by Beatrice Dillon
Petship
Petship
Very classy collection of warm, subtle, languid grooves meticulously crafted with a pointillist attention to detail.
Favorite track: Workaround Three.
wilson-c
wilson-c
Unique sounding album, a few tracks really stand out, but love the tone and funkiness on this one
Favorite track: Clouds Strum.
PJG
PJG
Very forward thinking, wonderful stuff indeed, hard to pick a favourite but Workout Eight is totally dying for a Carl Craig remix 🙏
Ravi Subramanian
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Martin Pavlinic
Kris Van Dessel
hiroaki fukui
Peter
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jorginhozinho
Jakob Bak
recfeeeeel
Martín Rodriguez
Uwe Broschk
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adi_bugaddi
Christopher Willes
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Murray Royston-Ward
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Syafii Ghazali
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Angus Norton
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Monroe
Cole Bratcher
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Christian Carey
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Iain Newton
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Alex Hyland
Andy
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Robert de Best
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Thomas Bieniek
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Workaround Two
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Workaround One
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Workaround Two
04:21
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Workaround Three
04:24
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Workaround Four
05:50
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Workaround Five
01:36
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Clouds Strum
04:45
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Workaround Six
01:28
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Workaround Seven
03:18
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Workaround Eight
04:26
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Workaround Nine
01:23
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Square Fifths
04:31
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Workaround Bass
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Pause
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Workaround Ten
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about
‘Workaround’ is the lucidly playful and ambitious solo debut album by rhythm-obsessive musician and DJ, Beatrice Dillon for PAN. It combines her love of UK club music’s syncopated suss and Afro-Caribbean influences with a gamely experimental approach to modern composition and stylistic fusion, using inventive sampling and luminous mixing techniques adapted from modern pop to express fresh ideas about groove-driven music and perpetuate its form with timeless, future-proofed clarity.
Recorded over 2017-19 between studios in London, Berlin and New York, ‘Workaround’ renders a hypnotic series of polymetric permutations at a fixed 150bpm tempo. Mixing meticulous FM synthesis and harmonics with crisply edited acoustic samples from a wide range of guests including UK Bhangra pioneer Kuljit Bhamra (tabla); Pharoah Sanders Band’s Jonny Lam (pedal steel guitar); techno innovators Laurel Halo (synth/vocal) and Batu (samples); Senegalese Griot Kadialy Kouyaté (Kora), Hemlock’s Untold and new music specialist Lucy Railton (cello); amongst others, Dillon deftly absorbs their distinct instrumental colours and melody into 14
bright and spacious computerised frameworks that suggest immersive, nuanced options for dancers, DJs and domestic play.
‘Workaround’ evolves Dillon’s notions in a coolly unfolding manner that speaks directly to the album’s literary and visual inspirations, ranging from James P. Carse’s book ‘Finite And Infinite Games’ to the abstract drawings of Tomma Abts or Jorinde Voigt as well as painter Bridget Riley’s essays on grids and colour. Operating inside this rooted but mutable theoretical wireframe, Dillon’s ideas come to life as interrelated, efficient patterns in a self-sufficient system.
With a naturally fractal-not-fractional logic, Dillon’s rhythms unfold between unresolved 5/4 tresillo patterns, complex tabla strokes and spark-jumping tics in a fluid, tactile dance of dynamic contrasts between strong/light, sudden/restrained, and bound/free made in reference to the notational instructions of choreographer Rudolf Laban. Working in and around the beat and philosophy, the album’s freehand physics contract and expand between the lissom rolls of Bhamra’s tabla in the first, to a harmonious balance of hard drum angles and swooping FM synth cadence featuring additional synth and vocal from Laurel Halo in ‘Workaround Two’, while the extruded strings of Lucy Railton create a sublime tension at the album’s palatecleansing denouement, triggering a scintillating run of technoid pieces that riff on the kind of swung physics found in Artwork’s seminal ‘Basic G’, or Rian Treanor’s disruptive flux with a singularly tight yet loose motion and... more
Recorded over 2017-19 between studios in London, Berlin and New York, ‘Workaround’ renders a hypnotic series of polymetric permutations at a fixed 150bpm tempo. Mixing meticulous FM synthesis and harmonics with crisply edited acoustic samples from a wide range of guests including UK Bhangra pioneer Kuljit Bhamra (tabla); Pharoah Sanders Band’s Jonny Lam (pedal steel guitar); techno innovators Laurel Halo (synth/vocal) and Batu (samples); Senegalese Griot Kadialy Kouyaté (Kora), Hemlock’s Untold and new music specialist Lucy Railton (cello); amongst others, Dillon deftly absorbs their distinct instrumental colours and melody into 14
bright and spacious computerised frameworks that suggest immersive, nuanced options for dancers, DJs and domestic play.
‘Workaround’ evolves Dillon’s notions in a coolly unfolding manner that speaks directly to the album’s literary and visual inspirations, ranging from James P. Carse’s book ‘Finite And Infinite Games’ to the abstract drawings of Tomma Abts or Jorinde Voigt as well as painter Bridget Riley’s essays on grids and colour. Operating inside this rooted but mutable theoretical wireframe, Dillon’s ideas come to life as interrelated, efficient patterns in a self-sufficient system.
With a naturally fractal-not-fractional logic, Dillon’s rhythms unfold between unresolved 5/4 tresillo patterns, complex tabla strokes and spark-jumping tics in a fluid, tactile dance of dynamic contrasts between strong/light, sudden/restrained, and bound/free made in reference to the notational instructions of choreographer Rudolf Laban. Working in and around the beat and philosophy, the album’s freehand physics contract and expand between the lissom rolls of Bhamra’s tabla in the first, to a harmonious balance of hard drum angles and swooping FM synth cadence featuring additional synth and vocal from Laurel Halo in ‘Workaround Two’, while the extruded strings of Lucy Railton create a sublime tension at the album’s palatecleansing denouement, triggering a scintillating run of technoid pieces that riff on the kind of swung physics found in Artwork’s seminal ‘Basic G’, or Rian Treanor’s disruptive flux with a singularly tight yet loose motion and... more
credits
released February 7, 2020
Beatrice Dillon - electronics, drum programming, synths, percussion, tidal, bass, Kuljit Bhamra - tabla, dholak, darabukka (A1, A4, B1, B6), Verity Susman - alto and soprano saxophone (A2), Laurel Halo - vocal, additional synth (A2), Lucy Railton - cello (A3, A5), Petter Eldh - double bass (B2, B3), Kadialy Kouyaté - kora (B3), Batu - hi-hat (B1), Morgan Buckley - bodhrán (B1), Untold - electric guitar (A2, A3), Jonny Lam - pedal steel guitar (A2), Kenichi Iwasa - wavedrum, clave (A3, B6), James Rand (additional editing).
The album is mixed by James Rand and mastered by Rashad Becker at Dubplates & Mastering. Artwork by Thomas Ruff, r.phg.06, 2014 © DACS 2019. Layout by Johannes Schnatmann & Bill Kouligas.
Beatrice Dillon - electronics, drum programming, synths, percussion, tidal, bass, Kuljit Bhamra - tabla, dholak, darabukka (A1, A4, B1, B6), Verity Susman - alto and soprano saxophone (A2), Laurel Halo - vocal, additional synth (A2), Lucy Railton - cello (A3, A5), Petter Eldh - double bass (B2, B3), Kadialy Kouyaté - kora (B3), Batu - hi-hat (B1), Morgan Buckley - bodhrán (B1), Untold - electric guitar (A2, A3), Jonny Lam - pedal steel guitar (A2), Kenichi Iwasa - wavedrum, clave (A3, B6), James Rand (additional editing).
The album is mixed by James Rand and mastered by Rashad Becker at Dubplates & Mastering. Artwork by Thomas Ruff, r.phg.06, 2014 © DACS 2019. Layout by Johannes Schnatmann & Bill Kouligas.
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Beatrice Dillon is a London-based artist and founder of the label HI.
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