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Cat: KTX 006LP. Rel: 30 May 16
Soundtracks

Side 1 - Track 1. 2B Side 1 - Track 2. 3C Rev2 Side 1 - Track 3. Not Upbeat 8 Side 1 - Track 4. Aristo R27 M7 Side 1 - Track 5. Sketch 22 Side 1 - Track 6. Upbeat 7 Side 1 - Track 7. 6C Side 1 - Track 8. 7C Rev2 Side 1 - Track 9. 12C II Side 1 - Track 10. 14B Side 2 - Track 1. 10F II Side 2 - Track 2. 18B Rev2 Side 2 - Track 3. 21B II Side 2 - Track 4. Sketch 1 Side 2 - Track 5. Sketch 5 II Side 2 - Track 6. 7D Side 2 - Track 7. Upbeat 9 II Side 2 - Track 8. Sketch 17 III Side 2 - Track 9. Sketch 23 Side 2 - Track 10. Sketch 15 II

After releasing the superb new album from Bristol's Sophia Loizou, Ricardo Donoso's Kathexis label return to the soundtrack work of Alex Menzies. Known for his work as Alex Smoke among other aliases, Glaswegian Menzies has a strong discography at the forefront of techno but has more recently turned his hand to composing soundtracks. Mechanical Marvels: Clockwork Dreams is the second soundtrack Menzies composed for the BBC, providing music for a documentary narrated by Professor Simon Schaffer that the story of the automata clockwork devices built hundreds of years ago with the intent to mimic and recreate life. Much of the instrumentation used for Menzies' carefully constructed score was also of the type actually incorporated into automatons, including bells, chimes and wind organs. Percussive patterns scattered throughout the cues are samples of machines moving, gears grinding, halting, some of them automatons themselves.