Soft Minerals, by The Hydra

Soft Minerals

by The Hydra

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1.	Lysergic Imminent 09:24	buy track
2.	Ready For This 13:05	buy track
3.	Voices Backtrack 08:07	buy track
4.	The Secret Violence 17:12	buy track
5.	Deliquent 02:59	buy track
6.	Minstrel Captive 06:43	buy track
7.	The Great Novelist 04:10	buy track
8.	Digital only bonus track: Walking On Butter 07:02	buy track

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Originally released on cassette via Phinery , January 2016

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released January 18, 2016

Written performed and produced
by Dimitris Papadatos

Upright bass sample performed
by Mano Plizzi

Mastered at LA107

Art by B Lind Krarup

"I really can’t get enough of Dimitris Papadatos’ music since stumbling across his Jay Glass Dubs project last year and including it in the Spool’s Out best of 2015 list. Papadatos seems to be something of a musical polyglot, with several extremely distinct musical projects under his belt, including a singer-songwriter project called KU. The Hydra however, is something more akin to the trippy instrumental sonics of Jay Glass Dubs, albeit far more open-ended and less indebted to Jah. The Morals album out on Nutty Wombat in Papadatos’ home city of Athens constitutes vast realisations of scattered dusty instrumental landscapes. We wander over a ground littered with synthetic drones, clambering over bountiful mountain ranges of queasy drum machine programming and squelchy samples. The vastness of the productions lends something narrative to both tapes, with the even longer form tracks on the Phinery-released Soft Minerals getting even more widescreen, more cinematic, and more scary. The 13 minutes of ‘Ready For This’ resemble a bastard child of György Ligeti and Muslimgauze, smashing ungodly atonality into industrial techno frameworks, while ‘The Secret Violence’ spends 17 minutes flying through the most unnerving cosmic voids since Klaus Schulze’s Cyborg. Noisy drum and bass even makes a showing in the sickening mix of crunched samples and overdriven pads that is ‘A Minstrel Captive’. A unique and bizarre new voice."

- Tristan Bath, The Quietus

''Empruntons les mots de The Quietus à propos de The Hydra qualifiant Dimitris Papadatos de « musical polyglotte ». C’est censé. Voilà un artiste sonore qui se préoccupe moins de (re)créer son vocabulaire musical que manier plusieurs langues. L’Athénien réalise une pièce – pour ne pas dire un monolithe – escarpé, percuté, dangereux de grand cinéma, de post-techno, de jeux de miroirs, de noise, de free à la Sun Ra ou de space music guerrière. Bien plus épique, il évoquera néanmoins les travaux de J.G Biberkopf, le « dramaturge du grime ».''

- MD, The Drone

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The Hydra Athens, Greece

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Jay Glass Dubs / Wild Terrier Orchestra

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