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Supplementary Studio Gimmicks
Alien
Nesby (of 23) and Amos Gaynes are the men behind A23P. The idea behind
the A23P project, had it's roots in the initial 23 sound that had
carried through the mid 90s to start of the 2000s and had focused
mainly on various forms of "acid" dance forms; with a special focus on
house and techno. During this time period, Alien had elected to follow
the lines as such artist as Prototype 909 and conduct all live p.a.'s
in a spontaneous manner; simply making up and controlling the music
from the ground up as a performance progressed.
Though
23 would come to divert from an "acid" focus, Alien maintained an
interest in not just the acid sound, but a musical outlet based around
spontaneity; a means by which the artist expressed the self through a
raw form with no chance for studio production tricks and the like to
polish up what was generated. A23P would come to be the avenue by which
this was carried out.
In
2010 Amos Gaynes, of Moog company notoriety and a musician
himself, would come on board A23P.
Offering
his own plethora of both music writing and musical instrument
engineering insights, Gaynes would help issue forth a new chapter in
the A23P sound.
While
not at all completely abandoning the roots of A23P, collectively both
Alien and Amos would elect to widen the musical scope of the project,
incorporating musical ideas ranging from jazz and industrial, to glitch
and other experimental forms in tow with A23P's original
acid carryouts.
To
say at present that A23P pushes the boundaries of Acid musical forms
would be to limited.
Perhaps
more apt to say that A23P, the duo of Amos Gaynes and Alien Nesby, is
more so a representation of the pushing of music itself into entirely
new sonic landscapes and genre.
