The Two Lone Swordsmen are BritishhouseDJ and producerAndrew Weatherall and studio engineer Keith Tenniswood. Formed in early 1996, following the dissolution of Weatherall's influential Sabres of Paradise techno act, the Swordsmen have explored a variety of styles, from electro to post punk to IDM. Originally they released material on the label Emissions Audio Output, which Weatherall ran. However, the small nature of the operation limited the duo's success. They have since signed to Warp Records, making them labelmates with acts such as Squarepusher, Autechre and Boards of Canada. The Swordsmen's latest album is 2004's From the Double Gone Chapel, which exhibits more of a rock sound than their previous work. It was released with the single "Sex Beat", a cover of the popular Gun Club song. House music refers to a collection of styles of electronic dance music, the earliest forms beginning in the early- to mid- 1980s. ... DJ or dj may stand for Disc jockey, dinner jacket The DeadJournal website, or Djibouti. ... In the music industry, record producer designates a person responsible for completing a master recording so that it is fit for release. ... Andrew Weatherall (b. ... An Audio Engineer is a person recording, editing, manipulating, mixing and mastering sound by technical means. ... 1996 is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... Techno- is a prefix relating to technology. ... Electro can refer to: The fictional comic book villain Electro. ... Post punk generally refers to the particularly fertile and creative period following the initial UK punk rock explosion, roughly spanning 1978-1982. ... IDM, short for intelligent dance music, is an electronic music genre which began as a style of techno in the early 1990s and moved on to include the textures and sound manipulation methods of Musique concrète and early, true industrial bands such as Coil and Nurse With Wound. ... Warp Records is a pioneering independent UK record label, founded in Sheffield in 1989, notable for discovering some of the most enduring artists in electronic music. ... Tom Jenkinson a. ... Autechre are an English electronic music group. ... Boards of Canada is a Scottish electronic music duo comprised of Michael Sandison (b. ... 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Gun Club were a rock band from Los Angeles in the 1980s led by the flamboyant singer, ex-rock critic Jeffrey Lee Pierce. ...
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The Fifth Mission (Return to Flightpath Estate) (1996)
A slight return to experimental electro after the downtempo breakbeat of their EP work during 1999, the second TwoLoneSwordsmen full-length for Warp also explores the minimalist side of techno and harks back to the early-'80s synth-funk Andrew Weatherall championed on his Nine O'Clock Drop mix disc for Nuphonic.
Except for a few tracks of free-form ambient wallpaper, Tiny Reminders is pretty hard hitting, at least for TwoLoneSwordsmen.
The beats are less brittle, and though the catalog of crazed effects is still in full force, they're carried along by the forceful drum programming instead of acting on their own.
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