Ambassadeurs - Ambassadeurs – Seconds
‘Patterns’ is the debut album from the much-championed UK electronica artist, Ambassadeurs (aka Mark Dobson). Currently available on Spotify, ‘Patterns’ is available to own from 29 June on his own Lost Tribe Records imprint. ‘Looking At You’ will be released as a single on 10 July. Mark has just dropped a new free download, ‘Seconds’, via his SoundCloud:
Ambassadeurs widescreen sound spans bass heavy, ethereal electronica, through to dark ambient moments, and shimmering, melodic techno. His supporters to date include The Fader, Mixmag, Vice, iD, Clash, XLR8R, This Is Fake DIY, Dancing Astronaut, The Sound You Need, Earmilk, Radio 1 (Phil Taggart, Monki, SOHN, and Huw Stephens), 6 Music (Lauren Laverne) and a host of global tastemaker blogs. In addition to releases including ‘Can’t You See’ EP, ‘Forever’ EP, and the ‘Trouble’ EP, Mark’s remixed for labels including Tru Thoughts, Ninja Tune, Moshi Moshi, Fat Cat, Wah Wah 45s and others.
Over the past two years, Ambassadeurs has worked hard to develop his live set – one which marries his leftfield sound with surrealist videography – winning diverse support slots with the likes of ODESZA, Danny Brown, Machinedrum, Gold Panda, and more, his current US tour has seen him join Mad Decent’s Daktyl – evidence of Ambassadeurs increasingly wide appeal, and a follow-up to his debut 30 date support tour with the aforementioned ODESZA. Mark has just announced a hometown show in London on 2nd July, Milk 003 at Concrete Space, Shoreditch.
Much of Ambassadeurs’ music is created with found sounds that he turns into samples, processing them, Amon Tobin-like, beyond recognition. He started out learning his craft on an 8-bit Amiga computer, wrestling with the notoriously tricky Octamed while the rest of us were playing Lemmings. Mark then upgraded to Logic and began working with electronic instruments, getting inside the machinery to make them sound the way he wanted.
On ‘Patterns’, he combines these leftfield techniques with synthesized sounds. The album features the introspective, instrumentals that have become his signature – ‘Forever’, ‘Somehow’, ‘Void’, ‘Can’t You See’, ‘From You’, and ‘Tonight’ – alongside epic 4/4 structures – ‘Crimson’, ‘No More’, and ‘My Way’ – and vocal led tracks, with the latter represented by guest vocals from C. Duncan (‘Looking At You’), Tigga Da Author (on the blues-like melancholy of ‘Weatherman’), and Folly Rae (with the cut-up, neo-soul of ‘Breathe’).
TOUR DATES
17/06 – Toronto, CA – NXNE @ Northby Hub
20/06 – Dufur, US – What The Festival
2/07 – London – Milk 003 at Concrete Space, Shoreditch
