Roll the Dice - Roll the Dice

Roll the Dice

Roll the Dice

Available Formats No. of Tracks   Price Buy
Download Album (mp3) 9 tracks £5.99
Download Album (flac) 9 tracks £6.99
Download Album (wav) 9 tracks £6.99
Download individual tracks   from £0.75

Description

Roll the Dice - Roll the Dice

Though this is the official debut recording from Swedish duo Roll the Dice, Malcolm Pardon and Peder Mannerfelt are certainly not strangers to the world of independent music. Mannerfelt has been producing records for years as The Subliminal Kid and also produces and tours with Fever Ray while Pardon continously composes for film and television. Having shared a studio in southern Stockholm for several years, they finally decided to join forces in something musical. If the original impetus was little more than sharing a bottle of wine and attempting to make something different, the final result is something far beyond.

Each session started and ended in the same way. There were to be no pro-conceived ideas going in, but had to be a completed track at the end of each day. These forced limitations led to a creative cloudburst, finding unexpected passages from beginning to end. Elements of early electronica bleed into hints of minimalists such as Terry Riley and Arvo Pärt. Repetition and understated progression engage the listener subtly. It may bring a piece of Basic Channel to mind, but it's another beast entirely. Each track consists of only synths and piano. Nothing more. No computer processing. No drum machines. Pure analog. The result is something warm and emotive. There may be a murky darkness underlying these tracks, something almost sinister but there's a streak of something comfortingly familiar running throughout.

Two years after their first session together they put the finishing touches on the record through the API desk at the legendary Gröndal studio in west Stockholm. It is music that etches itself in your mind like diamond on glass. Pardon and Mannerfelt operate with absolute precision and expressing raw emotions.

Tracklisting

Download Album (DIGI055DD)
  1. Roll the Dice - The New Black
  2. Roll the Dice - Axee
  3. Roll the Dice - Guadeloupe
  4. Roll the Dice - Into the Mild
  5. Roll the Dice - Swing
  6. Roll the Dice - Into The Ground
  7. Roll the Dice - After
  8. Roll the Dice - Undertow
  9. Roll the Dice - Rerun

mp3 downloads

Downloads

Track NumberListen Track NameTrack Length Price Buy
1 The New Black 6m 13s £0.75
2 Axee 6m 16s £0.75
3 Guadeloupe 6m 33s £0.75
4 Into the Mild 4m 22s £0.75
5 Swing 9m 44s N/A N/A
6 Into The Ground 3m 16s £0.75
7 After 7m 13s £0.75
8 Undertow 11m 5s N/A N/A
9 Rerun 1m 46s £0.75
Entire MP3 Download Album ( 9 tracks) £5.99
MP3 format technical details
These mp3 tracks have been encoded with LAME using the '--preset extreme' VBR setting, providing you with a very rich listening experience. No DRM or copy protection is built in to the mp3s.

wav downloads

Downloads

Track NumberListen Track NameTrack Length Price Buy
1 The New Black 6m 13s £0.75
2 Axee 6m 16s £0.75
3 Guadeloupe 6m 33s £0.75
4 Into the Mild 4m 22s £0.75
5 Swing 9m 44s N/A N/A
6 Into The Ground 3m 16s £0.75
7 After 7m 13s £0.75
8 Undertow 11m 5s N/A N/A
9 Rerun 1m 46s £0.75
Entire WAV Download Album ( 9 tracks) £6.99

flac downloads

Downloads

Track NumberListen Track NameTrack Length Price Buy
1 The New Black 6m 13s £0.75
2 Axee 6m 16s £0.75
3 Guadeloupe 6m 33s £0.75
4 Into the Mild 4m 22s £0.75
5 Swing 9m 44s N/A N/A
6 Into The Ground 3m 16s £0.75
7 After 7m 13s £0.75
8 Undertow 11m 5s N/A N/A
9 Rerun 1m 46s £0.75
Entire FLAC Download Album ( 9 tracks) £6.99
FLAC format technical details:
These FLAC tracks are superior to MP3 in that they are compressed without any loss in sound quality. For further technical details or player tips, visit the Help section