Sote
http://www.sotesound.com/BIO
Ata Ebtekar aka Sote is an electronic composer, sound artist and recording engineer who was born on September 2nd, 1972. His goal is to create unique and timeless pieces of music that are not available anywhere except in his mind. Sote is interested in keeping the tuning of Persian classical scales (Radif) and melodies from old Persian folk songs within a new electronic framework. Since he has a firm conviction that rules and formulas have to be deconstructed and rethought, he alters some of these modal systems from their original tonality and rhythm (tradition). He has released 2 records on RLR, one a dancefloor limited edition vinyl titled 'wakeup' (the followup to his Warp records release 'electric deaf') and Dastgaah, a full length cd illustrating his beatless persian electronic music techniques.
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"A hypermodern version of traditional Persian music. Sote, who already released a single through Warp and a 12in.on Dielectric, now turns the music tradition completely inside-out. Ata Ebtekar, as the artist is called, returned to his home-country Iran last year to create a laptop version in which ethnic acoustic elements have been completely altered and put into new ambient propositions, giving the music a completely different framework. Reworked voices, glitchy high-pitched shards of sounds, alienated peeps and twisted snare-instruments have been glued together in such a way, that the originin can hardly be detected. A 34-minute long alienated drug experiment in the middle of a modern foreign desert country."
