Plastikman & Chilly Gonzales | Consumed In Key (original) (raw)
Turbo Recordings presents its grandest achievement yet, a reimagining of Plastikman’s 1998 magnum opus ‘Consumed’, transformed as a new collaborative composition between original artist Richie Hawtin and sad musical genius Chilly Gonzales.
Consumed in Key will be available digitally and on a deluxe vinyl triple LP on April 1st, 2022.
01.04.2022
3LP Vinyl
Consumed in Key will be available digitally and on a deluxe vinyl triple LP on April 1st, 2022.
The vinyl and packaging were made with recycled materials.
The 30-year story of ‘Consumed In Key’
This is the story of an album three decades in the making, brought into the world by Executive Producer and Co-Executive Visionary Tiga.
1992
After dancing on a speaker for six hours, Tiga meets Richie Hawtin after his Cybersonik performance with Dan Bell at the legendary Montreal club Crisco. Tiga's mind is blown. Hawtin gives Tiga some white labels, a few unflavored +8 Records condoms, and a dream. They part completely unaware of how many times their paths will cross in the future. Tiga is just 18 years old.
Elsewhere, Gonzales is fast asleep. Tomorrow is the big piano lesson.
1998
Hawtin, recording as Plastikman, creates Consumed. The result of experimentation and live recording, it is a masterpiece of restraint, depth, and music conceived as architectural vision. Tiga listens to the album hundreds of times. It silently inspires a generation, defining the soon-to-emerge minimal movement and counting among its biggest fans creative, cultural icons such as sculptor Anish Kapoor and fashion designer Raf Simons.
2007
Tiga becomes instant best friends with Chilly Gonzales. Woven into the DNA of their friendship is a shared obsession with ambition and embracing new projects. Together, they write music, play chess, plot, and make a motion picture. There are no taboos.
2018
Chilly falls for online click-bait and discovers Consumed on its 20th anniversary. He feels that the record’s loose use of melody and negative space threatens his musical sensibility. Furthermore, the album’s unique timing structure and flow fuels his curiosity, comparing Richie’s unique take on techno to modern jazz music.
2020
Above the shifting sands of a global pandemic, the stars align. Time is no longer scarce; neither in their lives nor down by the record company punch-clock. Beat-driven club music doesn’t make sense. Consumed does.
Gonzales asks Tiga if he knows Richie Hawtin personally, and if he is familiar with Consumed. Gonzales says it’s one of the only techno records he’s ever fell in love with. He says he wants to compose accompanying piano pieces (counterparts) for each of the tracks. A thousand light bulbs flash. Over numerous late-night phone calls, he and Tiga discuss if this could really be possible. They decide it really could. Destiny calls.
The concept is earth-shattering in its simplicity: Chilly Gonzales will compose and play piano pieces over and within the entirety of Consumed. It will not be a remix. It will not be some “inspired by” abomination. It will be one composer instinctively reacting to—and finding space within—another composer’s already completed work which he adores.
As an experiment, Chilly records three solo piano demo versions. Tiga calls Hawtin, fully aware that asking to reopen what is in some ways the platonic ideal of the hermetically-sealed solo artist album might be sacrilege. Regardless, he steps in as the conduit between both artists and becomes a sounding board of ideas, helping to translate the thought processes of two artists coming from distinctly different worlds.
They all agree that Chilly should continue recording his solitaire interpretations and then once finished, Hawtin would come on board to mix the new combined work. This allows each artist their own space within the project, more of a sonic conversation between them than a conventional collaboration.
2022
Consumed in Key is born of the obsessive love of a timeless work of art, obsessive fascination untempered by fearful reverence. It is the result of a 30-year cycle of musical evolution and inspiration, a touch of Canadian kismet and artists finding common ground where others would see none.
2020
Above the shifting sands of a global pandemic, the stars align. Time is no longer scarce; neither in their lives nor down by the record company punch-clock. Beat-driven club music doesn’t make sense. Consumed does.
Gonzales asks Tiga if he knows Richie Hawtin personally, and if he is familiar with Consumed. Gonzales says it’s one of the only techno records he’s ever fell in love with. He says he wants to compose accompanying piano pieces (counterparts) for each of the tracks. A thousand light bulbs flash. Over numerous late-night phone calls, he and Tiga discuss if this could really be possible. They decide it really could. Destiny calls.
The concept is earth-shattering in its simplicity: Chilly Gonzales will compose and play piano pieces over and within the entirety of Consumed. It will not be a remix. It will not be some “inspired by” abomination. It will be one composer instinctively reacting to—and finding space within—another composer’s already completed work which he adores.
As an experiment, Chilly records three solo piano demo versions. Tiga calls Hawtin, fully aware that asking to reopen what is in some ways the platonic ideal of the hermetically-sealed solo artist album might be sacrilege. Regardless, he steps in as the conduit between both artists and becomes a sounding board of ideas, helping to translate the thought processes of two artists coming from distinctly different worlds.They all agree that Chilly should continue recording his solitaire interpretations and then once finished, Hawtin would come on board to mix the new combined work. This allows each artist their own space within the project, more of a sonic conversation between them than a conventional collaboration.
2022
Consumed in Key is born of the obsessive love of a timeless work of art, obsessive fascination untempered by fearful reverence. It is the result of a 30-year cycle of musical evolution and inspiration, a touch of Canadian kismet and artists finding common ground where others would see none.
Now, forget the story. Forget the words. Listen.
Consumed in Key will be available digitally and on a deluxe vinyl triple LP on April 1st, 2022.