Time Masters, by Group Modular

Time Masters

by Group Modular

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Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
Black vinyl in a reverse-printed sleeve, designed by Nick Taylor (Spectral Studio)

Limited run of 300
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Includes unlimited streaming of Time Masters via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
Orange-red vinyl in a reverse-printed sleeve, designed by Nick Taylor (Spectral Studio)

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1.	Time Masters 01:06		buy track
2.	Hommes de Métal 04:16		buy track
3.	Black Sphere 03:10		buy track
4.	The Whale Submarine 04:06	info	buy track
5.	The Phantom Mazone 03:22		buy track
6.	Ke I 00:51		buy track
7.	The Big Hunt 02:37		buy track
8.	Ignition 01:00
9.	Horology 03:07		buy track
10.	Shaking the Grid 03:10		buy track
11.	Chatterbird 02:31		buy track
12.	Optical Menuet 03:03		buy track
13.	Ke II 00:54		buy track
14.	Everything Is a Number 04:19		buy track

about

Eight years since their debut album, Group Modular returns with a new LP - "Time Masters"! Dedicated to and centered on some of their favourite local drummers, the new record is another synth-driven excursion into space age sound.

Established in 2010, Group Modular is a meeting point between psych+funk enthusiast Markey Funk (Delights) and machine music specialist Mule Driver (Confused Machines). Both key figures on their respectful scenes, the two found common ground in their fascination with early electronic and library music of the 1960's and 70's. Over the years of regular travels between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, the two produced the highly acclaimed album “The Mystery of Mordy Laye” (2012, Audio Montage Entertainment) and an exclusive International Synthesizer Day single “Black Ray/Acid Wheels” (Delights, 2018) - as well as played a few special live shows in their home country.

For their new project, the duo invited six different drummers to provide the rhythmical (and at times – structural) backbone for future compositions. Taken from Rene Laloux' cult animation feature, the album's title “Time Masters” hints that the key figure of each tune is actually the one keeping the beat or, as they call it in classical music, - “time”. Besides their regular collaborator, Sagi Sachs, on two tracks, Group Modular are joined by Yonadav Halevy (The Apples), Matan Assayag (Hoodna Orchestra/Shalosh), Hezus (3421/Trillion/Left), Ori Lavi and Elia Yakin. While letting every sticksman shine his distinctive style, Markey Funk and Mule Driver managed to bring these six different personalities closer under the multi-layered umbrella of space age electronics and cinematic psychedelia. Crafted over the course of 3 years and wrapped in artwork by Nick Taylor (Spectral Studio), “Time Masters” is the duo's love letter to the golden age of sci-fi animation.

credits

released November 13, 2020

Written & produced by Group Modular.

Markey Funk - keys, electronics, percussion;
Mule Driver - keys, electronics, guitar, bass;

Itai Anker - bass on "The Big Hunt";
Zohar Shafir - vocals on "The Phantom Mazone";

Elia Yakin - drums on "Time Masters" & "Optical Menuet";
Matan Assayag - drums on "Hommes de Metal", "Ignition" & “Shaking the Grid";
Yonadav Halevy - drums on "Black Sphere" & "Everything Is a Number";
Ori Lavi - drums on "The Whale Submarine", "Ke I" & "Horology";
Hezus - drums on "The Phantom Mazone" & "The Big Hunt";
Sagi Sachs - drums on "Chatterbird" & "Ke II".

Recorded and mixed by Group Modular at Los Jubilee;

Drums recorded by Ori Kadishay at Raash Hour Studio, Jerusalem (1-2, 4-10 & 12);
Charles Mathieu at Roy de Rats, Leipzig (11 & 13);
Dan Shatzky at Vibromonk, Brooklyn, NY (3 & 14);
Bass on "The Big Hunt" recorded by Ori Kadishay at Mazkeka Studios, Jerusalem.

Mastering by Rude 66
Design by Nick Taylor, spectral-studio.co.uk

Published by ACUM.
All rights reserved.

2020, Polytechnic Youth

Thanks to all the people who helped make this peculiar fantasy a reality!
Further thanks to Maayan Levin, Time Pusher, Eidan Peleg, Eldad Menuchin, Tamar Malinovitch, Gilli Tha Kid, Ofer Tal, Uri Wertheim, Strictly Kev, On, Itamar & Bar (Confused Machines), Delights, Sira, Dom & Nick.