Local Agent
by Charlatan
Pedro Bosch
Rod Ganiard
H E A D S P A C E
淳 浅井
Scott Rutherford
Musta Fior
nina
Kässrin Kelch
Evgeny Korelin
Roger Sommer
aDam wOOruM
dingodub
Andreas Tölle
ajg
qtndv
Brian Jones
Jon
MATEUSZ STRASZEWSKI
lloydargonaut
zurkonic
asleep
Dafydd Griffiths
snout76
chris sneeringer
xochipilli
Rodrigo Brandao
Tucked away sound
Bruce Levenstein
Steve Smith
Bayta Cosmico
spacegf
Jamie Lawson
Jesús S. Art
merzbeak
vito_mf
Franck J
buckley
don'tblameme
starv
Lokimotive
Paul Jockers
Daniel Tovar
wireless darkness
Dirty Dirt
java hut audio
mikedarkfloor
Samuel Melancon
Joshua Davison
Liz & Dwight Pavlovic
josh mason
rhos
J.A.
Joe Leifheit
Hubajube
Christopher Patterson
owlbyrd
Eric M. Bennett
danmmr
hirotake
tpd
Neal Blaikie
hugh gallagher
Matthew Braughton
John Hughes
Nick Green
-
Streaming + DownloadIncludes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.Purchasable with gift card
$8 USD or more
-
Full Digital Discography
Get all 94 Umor Rex releases available on Bandcamp and save 50%.
Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Moments at the Re-engage, Pruebas de Existencia, The Dualistic Principle, Zero Mambo, BFHC, Harmonies from Betelgeuse, Visions, Four Steps, and 86 more.
Purchasable with gift card$349.40 USD or more (50% OFF)
1. |
Switchblades
04:54
|
|
||
2. |
Blur suit
08:01
|
|
||
3. |
Lonely city
03:12
|
|
||
4. |
Skulled
05:47
|
|
||
5. |
The cure
05:40
|
|
||
6. |
Double blind host
03:16
|
|
||
7. |
Antiprism
04:09
|
|
||
8. |
Nightmaring
07:08
|
|
||
9. |
|
|||
10. |
|
|||
11. |
Geomancer (Bonus track)
05:03
|
|
||
12. |
|
|||
13. |
|
|||
14. |
|
|||
15. |
Transience (Bonus track)
06:04
|
|
||
16. |
Zaftig (Bonus track)
03:22
|
|
||
17. |
Discrete (Bonus track)
05:20
|
|
about
--------------------------------------------
Buy Vinyl: umor-rex.org
LP limited to 300 copies, pressed on yellow vinyl and packaged in uncoated stock jackets with double sided insert, black polylined inner sleeve, and free download card with the 8 bonus tracks of "Dead Drop" and the rmx of Black Hat.
--------------------------------------------
DIGITAL PURCHASES INCLUDE:
+ Switchblades (Black Hat remix)
+ Bonus Album: "DEAD DROP" (8 tracks)
"Dead Drop" contains 8 additional new tracks from Charlatan recorded during the sessions for Local Agent.
Local Agent is the fourth LP by Charlatan, a.k.a. Brad Rose, label-head of Digitalis, also known as The North Sea and one half of Safiyya. Local Agent is Charlatan's streamlined statement, an amalgam of spy and sci-fi techno with touches of abstract dub, finely mastered by John Tejada.
Local Agent is a great culmination of several years’ work by Brad Rose, who has been studying and styling a conceptual and abstract merge between industrial-beat and techno structures, with a sensitivity for narrative and the description of futuristic landscapes (retro-futuristic / Lab style). While employing his usual set of tools (electronic synthesis, cyclical melodies and techno/abstract rhythms), this time around Brad Rose/Charlatan is also playing inside the most turbulent dub territories, jointed by crushed and anonymous bass lines, to create tracks loaded with kinetic content, pieces that move within the grounds of science fiction and spy thrillers, a paranoia-rich sound apt for a J.G. Ballard novel. Local Agent can be understood as a complete musical work; although there are eight separate tracks, and each has its own personality, the full set creates a drama articulated by chapters, almost like a story-line. And this is also another success of Local Agent, the symmetrical conjunction between two axes that are usually distant: cold post-apocalyptic whisperings, dramatic industrial landscapes; and on the other side, a variety of playful melodic sequences, which function as an interlude or a precedent for freer and more abstract parts that could almost be imagined as a complex, epic confrontation. Local Agent is -metaphorically speaking- the process of a machine-like entity, a halogen-lit golem, a schizoid double agent, and a society that works feverishly for the last few hours before the great crash.
Buy Vinyl: umor-rex.org
LP limited to 300 copies, pressed on yellow vinyl and packaged in uncoated stock jackets with double sided insert, black polylined inner sleeve, and free download card with the 8 bonus tracks of "Dead Drop" and the rmx of Black Hat.
--------------------------------------------
DIGITAL PURCHASES INCLUDE:
+ Switchblades (Black Hat remix)
+ Bonus Album: "DEAD DROP" (8 tracks)
"Dead Drop" contains 8 additional new tracks from Charlatan recorded during the sessions for Local Agent.
Local Agent is the fourth LP by Charlatan, a.k.a. Brad Rose, label-head of Digitalis, also known as The North Sea and one half of Safiyya. Local Agent is Charlatan's streamlined statement, an amalgam of spy and sci-fi techno with touches of abstract dub, finely mastered by John Tejada.
Local Agent is a great culmination of several years’ work by Brad Rose, who has been studying and styling a conceptual and abstract merge between industrial-beat and techno structures, with a sensitivity for narrative and the description of futuristic landscapes (retro-futuristic / Lab style). While employing his usual set of tools (electronic synthesis, cyclical melodies and techno/abstract rhythms), this time around Brad Rose/Charlatan is also playing inside the most turbulent dub territories, jointed by crushed and anonymous bass lines, to create tracks loaded with kinetic content, pieces that move within the grounds of science fiction and spy thrillers, a paranoia-rich sound apt for a J.G. Ballard novel. Local Agent can be understood as a complete musical work; although there are eight separate tracks, and each has its own personality, the full set creates a drama articulated by chapters, almost like a story-line. And this is also another success of Local Agent, the symmetrical conjunction between two axes that are usually distant: cold post-apocalyptic whisperings, dramatic industrial landscapes; and on the other side, a variety of playful melodic sequences, which function as an interlude or a precedent for freer and more abstract parts that could almost be imagined as a complex, epic confrontation. Local Agent is -metaphorically speaking- the process of a machine-like entity, a halogen-lit golem, a schizoid double agent, and a society that works feverishly for the last few hours before the great crash.
credits
released August 26, 2014
Produced by Brad Rose
Mastered by John Tejada
Photo by Cody Cobb
Design by Daniel Castrejón
Produced by Brad Rose
Mastered by John Tejada
Photo by Cody Cobb
Design by Daniel Castrejón
license
all rights reserved
tags
discography
-
Jun 2023 -
Apr 2023 -
Nov 2022 -
Sep 2022
contact / help
If you like Local Agent, you may also like:
-
Sheer Hellish Miasma
by Kevin Drummsupported by 12 fans who also own “Local Agent”
inferno is unquestionably the best, most uncompromising noise track ever imagined and brought to life
go to album -
supported by 12 fans who also own “Local Agent”
New electronic take on old-school minimalism. Jo Johnson weaves at web of spellbinding colourful pop-minimalist melodies. Excellent stuff!
go to album -
Everywhere at the end of time
by The Caretakersupported by 12 fans who also own “Local Agent”
I first listened through this a couple years ago, and I don't know why I hadn't bought it until now. Regardless, I think everyone should listen through this in its entirety at least once, the best way I can describe it is beautifully haunting. I'm sure my favorite track will keep changing forever, too.
go to album -
The songs on “Bruma” feel impossibly still—rising mists of piano and electronics that hover like ghosts.
go to album -
Inspired by Rio de Janeiro’s iconic Carnival Parades comes this epic synth symphony from Brazilian artist Fordmastiff.
go to album -
featured on Bandcamp Radio Nov 15, 2022
go to album -
We, so tired of all the darkness in our lives
by Leyland Kirbysupported by 12 fans who also own “Local Agent”
One of the best albums to come out of Kirby's music career. I'm amazed that he managed to make drums sound melancholic. Absolutely amazing.
go to album
