Exquisite Cops, by Jas Shaw

Exquisite Cops

by Jas Shaw

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Matt Wharton Such a fresh, if accidental, approach to making music that is really inspiring. This album holds a special place in my heart, it proves that even if you don’t think you’ll have all the pieces for a project, just do a little digging and find some nice surprises. Love ya Jas! xx Favorite track: I Dream Of Meanie.

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Limited to 300 copies, the gatefold double LP features exclusive art, showcasing Jas' photos used in the series.
Buying the LP also includes streaming & download of the entire 25 track Exquisite Cops series, including all future releases up to EXCOP12.

Includes unlimited streaming of Exquisite Cops via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Sollbruchstelle 3 - Snacks Of Carelessness, Sollbruchstelle 2 - Absent and incorrect, Sollbruchstelle 1 - Become the scenic route, EXCOP11 - Remains Of The Klee, EXCOP10 - I Am Again, Exquisite Cops, EXCOP9 - When The Whip Descends, EXCOP8 - After The Panic, Comes Euphoria, and 11 more. , and , .

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1.	Non-Caring Fabulousness 06:05	buy track
2.	Merely Bathing 07:04	buy track
3.	Lecturing Birds On How To Fly 05:49	buy track
4.	Freedom For The Pike 06:23	buy track
5.	Repeat Until There Is No More Other 06:37	buy track
6.	I Dream Of Meanie 06:33	buy track
7.	Popes Of Dischord 09:34	buy track
8.	A Bird With No Feet 06:28	buy track

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The Exquisite Cops album features Jas' choice of 8 tracks from the 25 track series, created during 2018.

Jas: “The Exquisite Cops tracks seem to have made their own system for creation. Normally I record electronic music like a band would, as a take. Certainly it’s nice to have the parts multi-tracked so that you can process, edit and mess with the recording after it’s done but the key is to get at much of that moment captured as possible, commit to decisions, don’t give yourself to many layers of undo. So, it’s kind of surprising to me that that this batch of tracks wasn’t made this way. Instead of a single take that gets edited and perhaps developed these tracks were all made in bits, usually months apart. Some days I’d make a drum track, often editing it down so that it’s some sort of semblance of a structure; on other days I’d end up just making a synth sound or texture. This wasn’t something that I gave into reluctantly, it’s nice to be able to give a feedback based pad your whole attention rather than just set it up and only attend to it if it gets really out of hand.
The process of matching these misfits together was originally born out of laziness, rather than break open the synths to make something to develop an idea, what if I could just use something that I already had; slack. The interesting thing was that in pulling two takes together that were done months apart, they cast each other in a different light and though sometimes making them fit together was a hatchet job, sometimes they locked up together in an improbable way, making the rough structures that I’d improvised make a different sort of sense; often a more interesting sort of sense.
The more I did this the more it felt like this was not just a slacker’s way to use up offcuts, this resulted in combinations that I’d probably not have chosen if I’d done the tracks in one go. Also, and I know this isn’t something that’s important to everyone, there was a level of fastidious detail that I’d never have got if I’d had the textural and rhythmic elements playing together. It’s a longwinded process but it’s changed how I record and how I think about recordings I’ve made; plus I enjoy all parts of it so why cut it short?”

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released September 27, 2019

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