Big Blood Xset - Aka Justin Cooper

The Endless Album

The Endless Album embraces the dying nature of the album and engages in a critical examination of the techniques used to create single tracks through collaboration. The varied tracks encompass, what is generally called – problematic process conception to incompletion – digital imagination. Not musical prediction. This general expression means that new techniques extend beyond old techniques. To varying degrees, the new opposing technologies continue to offer my electronic experiments, with a means of not controlling specific outcomes. By enlarging the areas governing the presentation of process, conception, manipulation, treatment and environment. The technology positions its self ‘upstream’ of music by focusing on the imagination of technology, ‘downstream’ of the completed experiment by focusing on performance and interpretation from random process, or in the middle by focusing on feelings and emotions from the process in progress. Once these choices have been made – and have been fixed by a certain procedure and, as the case may be, the mix – then the music can start to flow or not flow. These different stages all form parts of the Endless Album.

All artworks are made by mapping the midi files from each track - to photoshop - printed - ready to be drawn on. The dots are connected using ink pens, abstract forms are then filled in with coloured pencils. The surrealist figurative elements are added based on various observations and happenings throughout the day. The final process requires images to be scanned to photoshop, then manipulated using a digital pen and tablet. This results in a chaotic disorder of ambiguous experimental form and colour.

Containing sites across buried seeds. Deep in the snow where slopes face south.

Listen: http://soundcloud.com/big-blood-xset/alien-animal-queens

The Endless Album

Sunday, 3 February 2013

Driver Lick / Featuring Dale Hope from London

Hot Chug / Featuring Danika Ray from San Diego

4000 Sides / Featuring Allura Warren from Darwin

Wednesday, 28 November 2012

Twenty Second Track - The Endless Album / Mod'd Maddness / Featuring Maria Hernandez & Co from San Diego

Twenty First Track - The Endless Album / Drug Of The Quirk / Featuring Sam Smith from Brisbane

Twentieth Track - The Endless Album / Alien Animal Queens / Featuring John Snede from Manchester

Nineteenth Track - The Endless Album / Riding On The Rim Of The Sun / Featuring Jay Bink From Detroit

Monday, 23 July 2012

Eighteenth Track - The Endless Album / Monster Fron Mars / Featuring Steve Brisk from London

Seventeenth Track - The Endless Album / Shoot Set / Featuring Dave Chester from Auckland

Sixteenth Track - The Endless Album / Sip The Nectar & Check Me / Featuring Boss D from New Orleans

Fifthteenth Track - The Endless Album / Lemingrad Lady / Featuring Natalia Ruzanna from Moscow

Fourteenth Track - The Endless Album / Drums That Bang Drums / Featuring Bence Bakos from Budapest

Thirteenth Track - The Endless Album / Cloud 14 / Featuring Erica Lee from Vancouver

Friday, 27 April 2012

Twelfth Track - The Endless Album / Kitchen Critters / Featuring Dane Sullivan from Seattle

Eleventh Track - The Endless Album / Hey Cus Hey / Featuring Erickson Arneson from Oslo

Tenth Track - The Endless Album / Not Another Head Spike / Featuring Roy Codder from London

Sunday, 11 March 2012

Ninth Track - The Endless Album / Going Gone Gone / Featuring D-Man from Los Angeles

Eighth Track - The Endless Album / Red Light Quiet / Featuring Clarinda Montez from Madrid

Friday, 17 February 2012

Seventh Track - Endless Album / Beat Some Fun One / Featuring Bobby Z from New York

Saturday, 11 February 2012

Sixth Track - The Endless Album / Cold Love / Featuring Kathy Nelligan from Dublin