TIM EXILE
Seemingly driven by a desire to obliterate the boundaries between electronic music and live performance, Tim Exile injects a true sense of un-predictability into his music. Having released numerous tracks on Moving Shadow, Planet Mu and now Warp Records, where his latest album "The Listening Tree" has been receiving rave reviews, it's arguably his live show that fully encapsulates the essence of his tweaked-out, mashed-up, mutant pop music. Utilising his self-created REAKTOR set-up (from which THE FINGER originates), Tim continually manages to create, twist and tweak unrepeatable sets, all shot through with his wry sense of humor.
"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."
