2024©Childhood Intelligence
Artist: ADSR aka. Todd Nickolas
Name: Passive Articulation
Format: 2x12 Lp, Cyperspace, Full Printed B/W Childhood Innersleeve.
Genre: IDM, House, Techno, Electro
Mastered by E-Control
Release Date: 27.11.2023
Artwork: Samantha Millows & Stewart Armstrong
Layout & Design: Stewart Armstrong
Childhood Intelligence’s 18th release by ADSR aka. Todd Nickolas & Dominic Paterson from Toronto, Canada. The 2x12” album presents mostly tracks written and produced by Todd, with A1/D1 being in collaboration with Paterson. "Give a teenager in a rural Canadian setting an analog synthesizer, a drum machine and a four-track cassette recorder and feed him a steady diet of 80s EBM, Post-Punk, Synthpop, Electro, Dub, Acid, Hip Hop and House, and you’ll get the kind of genre melding electronic-based music that Todd Nickolas has been known for since his early days of writing and producing." The end result is a versatile one, with “Passive Articulation” presenting abstract Techno - House - Electro visions, and fusing all the elements of vintage Intelligent Dance Music that we cherish so much: warm basslines, beautiful chord progressions, diverse and surprising arrangements infused with haunting melodies, hypnotic cyber sounds, detached vocal cuts and dubbed percussion.…Overall fresh & timeless classiness for the present, past & future.
Recorded various locations New Hamburg, Kitchener-Waterloo, Ottawa, Toronto, San Francisco and Los Angeles. ADSR greatly thanks those who were there from the start, those who joined along the journey and those here now.
Urban thoughts.
Rural dialects.
No separation.
Transmission between.
End notes.
Attack decay.
Sustain release.
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