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- artist:MERE MORTALS
- release year:2002
- style(s):Electronic, Ethnic
- country:Romania
- formats:CD (Compact Disc)
- record posted by:ONE group
- label:Interchill Rec. CA
“Universal Code is an artist album of real strength. In essence it is an enigmatic delves into broken beats, fat basslines, echoing samples, and Aphex Twin style discordance.
To pigeonhole an album like this would be doing it a great injustice for its influences are varied and many. All I can say is that if you like your music left of center then you are not going to be disappointed.” - Freaky Bob, Peek Magazine – Canada
“Purchase this album! If you are serious about your downtempo gems than you need to experiencethe new Mere Mortals release, Universal Code. This is the second release and has all the flavors of mellow downbeat, rolling dub, space trip hop, psychedelic and house treats, and an ethnic vibe that one would expect from the forward thinking Interchill label. Mere Mortals has created a wonderful album of eclectic tunes that make anyone more intelligent after each and every listen. The production from Dreamdoktor is crisp and the vocals by Cristina Handrabur sooth the soul and brightens any cloudy day.” - Thump Radio, http://www.thump-radio.com/Artists
Tracklisting
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01 Free
02 Endless Nights
03 Green Meridian
04 Solar Flares
05 Last
06 Up in Smoke
07 Amphora
08 Kaja
09 Twilight
10 Into your Space
11 Nautilus
12 Sea of Life
13 Systems Theory
Mere Mortals, the native Vancouver/ Bucharest solo project of Dan Handrabur, has been in evolution for five years as a downtempo side-project reflecting his otherworldly influences and indigenous perimeters. The result of these explorations has brought about a richly distinct ethno-morphic drum’n’bass flavored sound that often glides between the worlds of pop substance and avant-garde electronicisms.
The ethereal echoes of wife/ vocalist/ collaborator Cristina Handrabur join him on occasion where magic meets innovation from their headquarters, Outersanctum Studios. The duo is most renowned for their full length “Hard to Kill” under the Weed alias - Nettwerk Records 1999.
Emerging from Vancouver’s thriving, vital community of electronic-culturists in the late 80’s and early 90’s, Handrabur’s 1993 compilation release “Outersanctum - Frequencies From The Edge Of The Tektonic Plate”, on his own Outersanctum label, easily established him as one of the key figures to define what later became known as the "West Coast Sound".
His numerous aliases and side-projects since then have included Dreamlogic (Map/ Interchill 1994-1998), Han (Interchill 1998), Weed (Nettwerk Records 1999), and the album Vuemorph (Silent/ Outersanctum 1994), as well as collaborations with many of Vancouver's most creative minds such as Off And Gone (Harthouse/ Eye Q/ Exist Dance 1995-1996), Floatpoint (Sun-Europe/ Apollon - Japan 1995), Landhip (Map Records 1996) all with Phil Western, and Xdrone (Xdrone/ Dossier 1992-1993) with Adham Shaikh.
Handrabur’s genius as Mere Mortals was first exposed on Wax Trax's “Ethnotechno Compilation” in 1994, followed by an appearance on “Endzeit - Distorted Reflections Of The Outer Object” - (Endzeit 1995) and later on Interchill’s first cross Canadian compilation “Northern Circuits” (1997). The first Mere Mortals’ full length – “Ethnic Dub Simmphony In Ten Parts” appeared on Vancouver based Map records in 1997.
Having relocated the Outersanctum studio to their homeland Romania in the summer of 1999, the Mere Mortals project has gathered fresh material influenced by its original eastern-euro-ethno-gypsy sound, to be released as a full length entitled “Universal Code” on Interchill Records in spring of 2002.