
» Press:
download "Binomial Fusion" press-release (PDF
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download "Nebulous" press-release (PDF
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» Atomine Elektrine website:
raisondetre.coldmeat.se
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» Peter Andersson's top 10 list:
1. SPK - Leichenschrei
2. Klaus Schulze - Timewind
3. Robert Rich - Numena
4. Brian Eno - On Land
5. Current 93 - Nature Unveiled
6. Cure, The - Faith
7. Slowdive - Pygmalion
8. Tangerine Dream - Zeit
9. Kraftwerk - Kraftwerk I & II
10. Dead Can Dance - Within the Realm of a Dying Sun
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Pure nordic genius, Peter Andersson is
the talented man behind Raison D'être and a number of
brilliant musical projects like Stratvm Terror and Necrophorous,
each one with a very impressive and distinctive sound. Experimenting
with ATOMINE ELEKTRINE since the early 90's, the main influences
to create this project came from the old krautrock school in
its more cosmic and electronic side represented by artists like
Klaus Schulze, Kraftwerk and even Neu!.
However, incorporating ideas coming from various other sources,
like the orchestral Cold Meat-ish trademark of the time
and the sacral beauty of Raison D'être, ATOMINE ELEKTRINE came
out as a peculiar mutation of the kraut heroes; more rhythmic
and a bit less experimental and far-out than expected. A new
form of life.
» Discography:
Elemental Severance
CD ltd. 1000 copies (Cold
Meat Industry, Sweden, 1995) - sold-out!
Archimetrical Universe
CD ltd. 1000 copies (Yantra Atmospheres, Sweden, 1998) - sold-out!
Atom Xtension
CDR ltd. 100 copies (Yantra Atmospheres, Sweden, 1998) - sold-out!
BINOMIAL FUSION
2CD ltd. 800 copies / boxset edition ltd. 88 copies
(Essence
Music, Brazil, 2004)
NEBULOUS
CD ltd. 800 copies / boxset edition ltd. 98 copies
(Essence
Music, Brazil, 2007)
» Words on previous releases:
"To sum this all up, Peter Andersson is a genius who makes
brilliant from everything he touches, "Elemental Severance"
is monster and I won't hesitate to say the best release of 1995
so far!!!"
Crewzine
"Peter Andersson is one of the handful of finest sound
manipulators in the world. Period. (...) Space is an illusion...
but Peter has brought it to life."
JC Smith
"Atomine Elektrine is a sort of playground for the sounds
that don't really fit the dark contemplative and bleak style
of Raison D'être's releases. The sound here is equally majestic/mystic
and more ambient with absolutely gorgeous sounds and occasional
beats. Sometimes orchestral, sometimes angelic, this CD does
not stray far from the monastic chamber hall sounds found in
Andersson's sister project except to find more rhythm here and
there as he sees fit."
Ares Solis (Eskhatos magazine)
"Otro de los proyectos de Peter Andersson, quizá
el más asequible de todos. donde este genio nos envuelve
en un halo de sonidos ambientales, electrónicos e hipnóticos,
mucho más convencionales (frente al resto de su producción)."
Ipso Fäktor (Seküencias
De Culto magazine)
» Peter Andersson tells about the research process to recover,
remix and remaster the tracks for Binomial Fusion:
"When we first agreed about doing something about this
old ATOMINE ELEKTRINE material, both Essence Music and I insisted
in having as good sound as ever possible for the Binomial
Fusion release. My first plan was to re-mix all and
every track, but on a second thought I recollected that this
was not a good idea. All the original 8-track tapes from the
"Elemental Severance" recording session had
been re-recorded and replaced by the death-industrial noise
of Brighter Death Now (Cold Meat Industry). Some leaking sounds
from the ATOMINE ELEKTRINE even appear on an album of Brigher
Death Now.
At that time, around 1992-94, I used an Atari computer with
midi sequencer software, so I got another idea of finding the
sequencer data and the midi triggered sounds for all the tracks.
But that didn't work very well. Some new problems occurred:
Firstly, for most of the songs, some of the used instruments
were missing, they had been sold and it was not possible to
re-create the missing sounds of those instruments. Secondly,
for the remaining tracks, which seemed only to use instruments
I still had in my possession, and there was a possibility to
do a re-mix for those tracks, but my old Atari monitor didn't
work and the mouse was not functioning properly. Instead I tried
to transfer the old sequencer data of these remaining songs
to my new computer environment which I use in my studio today,
but since the Atari disc format is not readable on PC with new
Operating Systems I had to do an install an old OS which I know
could read those floppydiscs.
So, after some troubles I succeded in translating the old Atari
sequencer data into the PC environment. But when importing these
tracks into the PC some of the vital track information such
as sound program number and used instrument were gone. I had
to boot my Atari computer, now connected to a TV screen, and
load the corresponing sequencer data to look for the missing
track information. But now what, the TV screen resolution let
me only see a little portion of the original screen size, so
I had to scroll with a broken mouse, and it took hours just
to scroll and find the needed information.
Anyway, only two songs on the original "Atom Xtension"
CD-R have been re-mixed using the above method. All other tracks
have been carefully re-mastered. I have gone back to the source
masters whenever I could. However, for the "Elemental
Severence" CD the DAT-master was missing so I had to
use a pressed CD as source. Using the source master may sound
that these songs will be in tip top condition, however, that
is not the case. Except for "Elemental Severance"
only the seven last songs on 'Atom Xtension' have been recorded
using DAT as a master. All the remaining tracks have been recorded
on various stereo cassettes using bad tape recorders and old
used tapes. These recordings were only intended for my own listening
or as demos at most, and never intended for a CD release. When
I mixed those tracks back then I compensated for the bad PA
monitors which resulted in distortion in the mixer especially
of gained low frequencies. I didn't adjust the recording level
properly either which often resulted in distorted recordings.
During the pre-mastering I have tried, as long as it is possible
with that kind of sources, to compensate for all the flaws in
the mixing of the original recordings.
With all this in mind, I believe I succeded to do a great job
with the pre-mastering for the Binomial Fusion.
This old ATOMINE ELEKTRINE material sounds now better than ever
before."
Peter Andersson - April, 2004
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