Spring 201 Tour Info:
Official : http://www.icarus.nu/
Discogs: http://www.discogs.com/artist/Icarus+(2)
Bandcamp: http://not-applicable.bandcamp.com/
Icarus are available for live sets. Please email [email protected] with offers stating date, location, budget and other artists on the bill.
Recent Interview in The Liminal
Icarus at the Empress by Icarus…
Icarus is the innovative electronic music duo of Ollie Bown and Sam Britton. Beating to a decidedly experimental electronic tempo, from their sampler based deconstructions of drum and bass in the 90s to the continuing generative and improvised software based genre smashing that has characterised their more recent releases, Icarus have always carved their own distinctive, eclectic path through the world of electronic music, an approach that has seen them release a plethora of records on labels as diverse as The Leaf Label, Output Recordings, Temporary Residence and Domino. It is also an approach that has seen both Ollie and Sam independently pursue musical interests in both academic research and with other musicians and ensembles to great acclaim; in particular through the collective Not Applicable, influences that continue to inform the dizzying and unique progression that is their collective alter ego.
True to their love of computers and improvisation and their continued quest to develop ever more creative computational agents that inform their music, many of Icarus’ more recent releases have featured excerpts from live recordings, culminating in the release of ‘All Is For The Best In The Best Of All Possible Worlds‘. Recorded over a European tour in 2009 which billed Icarus with the likes of Tim Exile, Furt, Hudson Mohawke and Isan ‘All Is For The Best In The Best Of All Possible Worlds’ documents the enourmous breadth of ideas and musical form Icarus are capable of in performance, a feat which has even drawn the attention of critics who deride computers in musical performance.
New Remix for Caribou:
Bowls (Icarus remix) by Caribouband
Recent Live Album:
Video Clips:
Icarus: Uke ‘Em from Martin Hampton on Vimeo.
Treatment from not applicable on Vimeo.
Carnivalesque Part 2 from not applicable on Vimeo.
A Film from not applicable on Vimeo.