Pimmon
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- Genres: Electronica
Biography
The folded and chopped, glitchy ambient of Sydney, Australia's Paul Gough and his Pimmon project can be traced back to a mid-'80s obsession with Severed Heads and a self-released cassette packaged in a mangled safety boot wrapped in plastic. Raising a family in the suburbs of Sydney, Gough found work as a senior engineer for a popular radio station but continued creating experimental laptop electronica in his home studio. After the non-response to his first cassette, Gough sat on his recordings at first, but a hesitant entry into a turntablist exhibition at the Tenement Gallery in Melbourne changed everything. At the urging of the galleries owners, Gough sent a CD-R to the Japanese Meme label. Meme released Pimmon's debut Waves and Particles in 1999 and Kid 606 offered Gough a deal with his Tigerbeat 6 label after hearing an Internet broadcast of the album. 2001 saw the release of Electronic Tax Return on Tigerbeat 6 and the CD and MP3 set Assembler on the English label Fallt. Live appearances around the world followed along with releases on Staalplaat and Sirr afterward. Pimmon's relationship with Tigebeat 6 resumed with the release of Snaps Crackles Pops in 2003. ~ David Jeffries, RoviWikipedia on Answers.com:
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Pimmon
Pimmon is the recording name of Australian musician Paul Gough. He has released records on labels such as Fat Cat Records, Fällt, Tigerbeat6, Staalplaat and Staubgold, and collaborated with Keith Rowe and Oren Ambarchi, among others.
Gough started making music in the early 80s, inspired by Severed Heads[1], but never released any of it commercially. That changed when he sent a CD-R to the Japanese label Meme, who released it in 1999. Since then, Gough has been perfecting his unique mixture of drone- and glitch-based abstract digital soundscapes, which he creates using a variety of sound sources that he manipulates on his computer. Gough's first documented output arrived in the very early stages of laptop Electroacoustic improvisation and he has thus been credited as "second only to Fennesz as a laptop artist." He has played live at various festivals around the world, and has toured several countries.
Gough lives in Sydney, where he works as an audio engineer at ABC Radio National. He is also the host of a radio show on ABC Radio National called Quiet Space[2] and another program on FBi 94.5 called Paul's Play-Lunch. Gough also performs with guitarist Jeff Burch under the name Mandala Trap.
Selected discography
- (1999) Pola-Pola (self-released)
- (1999) Waves and Particles (Meme)
- (1999) Copper Hats (Freedom From)
- (2000) Kinetica ((K-RAA-K)³)
- (2000) Assembler (Fällt)
- (2000) Afternoon Tea with Oren Ambarchi, Fennesz, Peter Rehberg, Keith Rowe (Ritornell)
- (2001) Electronic Tax Return (Tigerbeat6)
- (2001) Orquesta Del Arrurruz (Staalplaat)
- (2001) Secret Sleeping Birds (Sirr Records)
- (2003) Mort Aux Vaches (Staalplaat)
- (2003) Snaps * Crackles * Pops (Tigerbeat6)
- (2008) Curse You, Evil Clown (Meupe)
- (2009) Smudge Another Yesterday (Preservation)
- (2009) Sounds of Perth (Cromim)
- (2009) Steered In Smash Ascent (Stunned Records)
- (2011) Lay Down Real Slow (Stunned Records)
- (2011) The Oansome Orbit (Room40)
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Mentioned in
Kinetica
(2000 Album by Pimmon)
Snaps Crackles Pops
(2003 Album by Pimmon)
Alone, Life Wastes Andy Hardy
(2001 Album by Various Artists)
Urbano Mistica Amplitude
(Album by Michael Renkel/Gato Leiras)
Afternoon Tea
(2000 Album by Oren Ambarchi/Fennesz/Pimmon/Rehberg/Keith Rowe)
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