TIM EXILE
Scheinbar vom Wunsch getrieben, die Grenzen zwischen elektronischer Musik und deren Live-Aufführung zu verwischen, schuf Tim Exile mit THE FINGER ein beinahe magisches Tool der Unvorhersehbarkeit. Neben besten Kritiken für seine Alben "Moving Shadow"und "Planet Mu" sowie dem jüngst auf Warp erschienenen "Listening Tree", sind es immer wieder seine ekstatischen Performances, die wahre Begeisterungsstürme auslösen. Unter Verwendung selbst kreierter REAKTOR-Setups, denen auch THE FINGER enstammt, erschafft Tim fortwährend in sich verdrehte, nie wiederholende Sets, die seinen ganz eigenen Sinn für Humor beherbergen.
"I've always been into the idea of playing electronics like you play acoustic instruments. I used to sit at the back of class at school tapping out jungle breaks and edits. That's when I fell in love with my fingers. I want to be able to touch sounds with them. Not just read adverts about touching sounds with them. I want to go on sound adventures by finger alone. Just a pair of handpants in my palmsack.
I love it when sounds end up somewhere completely different from where they start off. I want to be able to play these transitions with my fingers & keep wandering with the sound. I don't want to end up back where I started. I don't wanna be on a leash like a goat chewing the same patch of grass all day. I want to be a free goat. I wanna check out what that weird mountain over there is like to be on not just look at.
With THE FINGER you can keep on transforming the sound as long as you like. You don't have to go back home after one or two effects, wide awake and cursing your curfew. Just keep on applying effects, looping, mangling, smoothing, modulating until the cows come home, and all with those lovely fleshy pokey-hitty fingers of yours. Pull them fingers out and throw 'em in the wild."
