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FREE DOWNLOAD: Minotaur Shock vs Gold Panda

• 27th Jun 2012

Following a four-year hiatus, Minotaur Shock – aka Bristol-based musician David Edwards – is set to return with Orchard, arguably his strongest album of his ten-year career and marking a return to the label where it all started – Manchester's Melodic.

The album is a sonic journey through shifting moods and landscapes, a proper instrumental journey. It finds Edwards embracing influences from a range of music: ‘I was listening to a fair bit of British stuff and became fascinated by that particular eccentricity that runs through a lot of folk, library, prog and dance music. Things like Mike Oldfield, Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, The Orb, Art of Noise, Kevin Ayers, Virginia Astley, Andrew Poppy, Richard Skelton, Autechre.’

The unashamed use of acoustic (or acoustic-sounding) instruments is perhaps a response to the much maligned folktronica tag. 'The word used to bug me,' he says, 'So this was my perverse reaction to it – I figured that instead of trying to avoid folk I might as well get in there and see what happened. I was inspired by the strange semi-organic sounds of modern string modelling synthesizers, so wanted to see what would happen if I mixed them with real stringed instruments – how many fake instruments I could bury under real ones.’

Free download of 'Saundersfoot' GOLD PANDA remix link
Stream 'Saundersfoot' original link

As a neat little treat, anyone who pre-orders 'Orchard' from minotaurshock.melodic.co.uk will receive an immediate download of 'Saundersfoot' in original form, Gold Panda remix and BASS CLEF remix.