Tim Ballista
Tim Ballista grew out of the beat scene of the first decade of the 21st century. Making music for around four years, Tim crossed the post-SNG musicscape to take part in various underground breakcore and D'n'B events. Tim shared the stage with such core giants as Techdiff, Gromov, Cardopusher, Airborne Drums, Terminal 11, and Bong-Ra.
Avoiding drum machine sounds, Tim finds deep inspiration in sound design and unusual time signatures. Releasing Flux as a tribute to breakcore and fast electronica, written in a very specific manner, Tim moved forward to create a... read more
Kaometry Records
"Music is a composition of sound": it's on a music teaching book, about page 4. But it depends on which sounds we're speaking of… Reality sounds. Every day, everywhere: everything sounds.
Music is an attitude, sounds are just the matter. The world of physical objects that surrounds us motionless, silent, indifferent, each object or material or physical event produces its own sound.
At the opening of the millennium Matthew Herbert's Radio Boy experiment was just focusing on everyday objects and their inner sounds but with a different attitude and purpose: to manipulate sounds with music principles in order to reflect the unnatural, brutal and oppressive process of consumerism, exasperating its accumulation and sick soul. It was named, properly, The Mechanics Of Destruction. Tim Ballista instead built up six tracks inspired by the surrounding objects and materia but proceeding as a composer, with the aim to find music in the end, balancing rhythms, effects, weird passages but also lyricism and open reflective spaces, accelerated and mechanical and with a great, smooth flow, in a strange though natural way.
Fragments of things, fragments of sounds: spoons and piano notes, crushed small plastic cups and kick drums, basslines and voices but also a plotter or an alarm clock mechanism, all sampled, played, structured and tilted through combinations and repetitions, cutting, switching and blasting with that typical breakcore neurotic and sometimes ecstatic pace.
Kaometry Records matches always closer to its principles and inspiration and with this short release from the Moscow producer is bringing you into the sound of atoms spinning and whirling in everything you see, into the sound generated by the unpredictable incessant molecular recombination happening around all of us.
There is a secret life of things, and it is also made of sound. Tim Ballista has run into the scape of things "found himself in a world of horror and no motion".
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