Experimenting and producing thought provoking and subvertive Electro/Electronic compositions. Capturing images and video, and rendering them as visual portraits of Access Tonal Communications's sonic canvas. Thinking, Reading, Educating oneself, learning languages, resisting the currrent world order and the institutions which are effectively a dictatorship of vested interests. Meeting people from around the world, people who are open minded, people with an interest in music and art. Travelling and experiencing other cultures, their customs, food, music etc. Informing people we meet that Wales is a country with its own language. Welsh in fact, is one of the oldest languages in Europe. Seeking out and hearing new and great music etc
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Access Tonal Communications is primerily concerned with the development of Electro/Electronic music artforms and the media with which it interacts. We are a subvertive label interested in working, collaborating and forging relationships with other labels and artists in the underground, who are formulating and producing cutting edge electronic music. Access Tonal Communications operatives are always pursuing ideas, sounds and images which encapsulate the creative trajectory and vision of the label. Ultimately, there are no pretensions. We are approachable (if visable), warm, friendly people, stimulated by discourse and with a passionate disposition towards artforms.
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Check out the 12 new tunes from Hidden Persuader's new ablum Electrocratic. Availbale on Bleep.com
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Available on Bleep - The Struggle Against Ourselves - Various Artists. Clic the Pic to check the tones...
Video : Systems Of Thought (30 Secs)
Video: Access Tonal Communications Live at AUXILEC, the Attik, Leicester.
Music:
Access Tonal Communications is an Electronic label. The Operatives compose and produce music/tracks which have a diverse array of styles, with the idea of mixing genres when appropriate. Their own version or occasionally, deconstruction of Electro, Techno, and Hip Hop are what's usually manifested.
Movies:
Taxi Driver, Phase 4, The Wild Bunch, 2001 A Space Oddyssy, Videodrome, Scanners, Assault On Precinct 13, The Thing, Escape From New York, City of God, Rollerball (original), Michael Moore, Chris Cunningham, The Corporation, A Clockwork Orange, The Shining, Dawn of the Dead, Don't Look Now, Ichi The Killer, Akira, Alien, Aliens, THX1138, Apocalypse Now, Star Wars, The Omen, Rear Window, The Fight Club, 21 Grams, Scratch, Do The Right Thing & Summer Of Sam (Spike Lee), Pulp Fiction, Bad Lieutenant, King Of New York, Cannibal Ferox, Happy Gilmore, Deliverance, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Team America, Reservoir Dogs, Ong Bak, The Pink Panther, The Pink Panther Returns, Easy Rider, One Flew Over The Cookoos Nest, Goodfellas, Seven, The Wicker Man.........
Television:
It's not really watched at all, unless images are collated then disseminated for tonal representation. These visual elements simply serve to continue our subversion and ambiguity. Some documentaries are watched depending on the subject matter. Good satire and comedy are also endorsed, such as
Brass Eye & Jam by Chris Morris. He's amazing, along with Armando Iannuchi, and never anything but controversial and challenging. The Simpsons are too great not to mention. Ultimately, the medium of TV is used to benefit Access Tonal Communications audioally and visually. Images and sound are manipulated through meticulous experimentation, programming, rendering and edting, to create a symbiotic relationship between both creative forces. These are visual representations of the tones and structures formulated by each operative.
Books:
Future Shock & The Third Wave - Alvin Toffler, The Illuminati Trilogy - Robert Anton Wilson, Noam Chomsky, Hidden Agendas & other books/essays by John Pilger, Oceans of Sound - David Toop, Rough Guides, Techno Rebels by Dan Sicko, Hunter S Thompson, William Burroughs, No Logo by Naomi Klein, The Age of Consent by George Monbiot, I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings and other novels by Maya Angelou, Will Self, Gore Vidal, Mr Nice by Howard Marks, Geography -An Integrated Approach, Richard Pryor - Prior Covictions & other life sentences, The Men Who Stare At Goats by Jon Ronson, A World Atlas (the bigger the better), American Psycho - Brett Easton Ellis, Hope In The Dark - Rebecca Solnit, A Confluence - Anthony Knipping.
Heroes:
Underground Resistance, Juan Atkins, Derrick May, Kevin Saunderson, Jeff Mills, Carl Craig, Jay Denham, Robert Hood, Stacy Pullen, Kenny Larkin, Anthony'Shake'Shakir, Suburban Knight, Drexciya (RIP - James Stinson), Claude Young, Octave one (430 West), Basic Channel, Chain Reaction, Moritz Von Oswald, Steve Rachmand, Richie Hawtin, Kraftwerk, Anthony Rother, Aux 88, Detroit Electro, Miami Bass, As One, Tresor & other Berlin Techno, Kenny Dixon Jr, Joey Beltram, 808 State, A Guy Called Gerald, Warp, Autechre, Aphex Twin, The Black Dog, Brian Eno, Earth, Mogwai, Neurosis, Shellac, Fugazi, Miles Davis, John Coltraine, Dave Brubeck, Billy Cobham, Parliament/Funkadelic, Pixies, Melvins, Soundgarden, Tool, Refused, Helmet, Slayer, Swervedriver, System of a Down, Fudge Tunnel, The Boo Radleys, Ride, Public Enemy, Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy, Kyuss, Fu Manchu, Ultramagnetic MC's, Schematic, Touchin Base, Laurent Garnier, Luke Slater, Led Zepellin, Cream, Jimi Hendrix, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, Pink Floyd, Herbie Hancock, Will Haven, Slint, Sonic Youth, Sepultura, Talking Heads, Neil Young, Throbbing Gristle, Ministry, The God Machine, Bob Marley, Richard Devine, Otto Von Schirach, Joachin Paap aka Speedy J, Dead Kennedys (Jello Biafra & Alternative Tentacles), At The Drive In, The Mars Volta, PJ Harvey, Dinosaur Jr, My Bloody Valentine, Rage Against The Machine, Jane's Addiction, Joy Division/New Order, Black Sabbath, Black Flag, Husker Du, YMO, Sick Of It All, Massive Attack, John Carpenter (Film Scores), Mozart, Beethoven, Tchikovsky, Puccini, Bach, Handel, Musik Aus Strom, Napalm Death, Entombed, Mondo Trans Shop, the Shove Its, Daisy's Dead.
