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Carpathia and Only Connect in 1997 and expanded his style to synth drone rock when he moved to Portland in 2002. Since then he has been expanding his style from loop based guitar drone rock to more singer songwriter dark pop style. He also produces electronic down-tempo/dance music under the alias DJ Tan't and played in a 2 piece doom rock band called Marred Models.
There's a good chance that Ark of War - the debut album from local producer
Paul Lynch's one-man-band, ((In Mono)) - has the most convoluted mythology
of any record to come out of Portland in the past decade. In a town that
is home to both the Decemberists and a Klingon metal group, that's saying
something.
According to Lynch, the lyrically scant drone-metal, downbeat-techno
LP is intended to soundtrack a tale of doomed love that takes place on
battling city-ships in a post-apocalyptic water world. The protagonist
of this tale is named In Mantis (also the title of the record's opening
track), and she is distinguished by her propensity to behead romantic
conquests with "razor-spiked arms that form after she orgasms."
"I've always loved post-apocalyptic books and movies," Lynch says. "So
I just started writing songs, not based on that, but I gave the songs
names, and then under that pretense I created chapters with those names,
and it all just fell into place."
Lynch is a musician with a history of indulging his diversionary tics.
He began his musical career by playing guitar in the drone-metal band
Carpathia (alongside Talkdemonic's Kevin O'Connor), and he has played
extensively throughout Portland under his producing moniker, DJ Tan't.
Despite his new project's elaborate story, Lynch explains ((In Mono))'s
genesis quite humbly: "I play guitar, I make beats, so I might as well
combine the two and try to come up with something original.'"
Composed principally of reverb-tweaked drum samples and groaning, overdriven
guitar, ((In Mono))'s music sounds like the heavily medicated love child
of Ratatat and Thrones. Lynch's customary stylistic mode is "stygian,"
and Ark of War fairly sweats post-disaster decay. "KLTV" uses moaning
vocals to create an air of anesthetized unease; "Fire South" piles aggressive
guitar licks on top of thundering drum samples, forming a sinister contribution
to the genre of "badass slow-motion walking music."
Lynch spent four years writing and recording Ark of War. In an earlier
write-up of an ((In Mono)) show, this newspaper described him as having
a "give-a-fuckless" attitude toward self-promotion. Indeed, Lynch seems
to dictate his own terms less from willful defiance than from simple habit.
The result is a creative product that exists, in this case quite literally,
in its own private universe.- SHANE DANAHER of Willamette Week see article here
- NED LANNAMANN
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Ark Of War
Red lights, dark corners, thrashing drum and bass.
Later, a mirrored ceiling will reflect a brutal scene –
When she looks out of her window, all she sees is sea.
After the war, they left the land. Oil and water,
Sometimes a battle to the death is better than a rose.
The soldier who can’t be killed will win her battered heart,
Bright lights, loud shots and sinking ships.
They will find others like them and new land –- Tai Woodville
DJ TAN'T MARRED MODELS FLOATING DARK INFINITE INFANT HEADPHONE PARTY ONLY CONNECT CARPATHIA
Booking: inmono (((at))) inmono.org
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