Artist: Locust
Genre(s):
Metal
Other
Discography:
Safety Second, Body Last (EP)
Year: 2005
Tracks: 2
Plague Soundscapes
Year: 2003
Tracks: 23
No-One In The World
Year: 1998
Tracks: 5
Truth is born of arguments
Year: 1995
Tracks: 11
Locust
Year:
Tracks: 20
Flight of the Wounded Locust
Year:
Tracks: 11
Locust's Mark Van Hoen occupies the shadier, more melancholiac side of present-day ambient, collection records of patent ravisher out of shards of morose, passably foreboding textures and arrangements. A London native alive in the film and commercial music patronage ahead concentrating full-time on recording for tone ending, Van Hoen has produced a string of extremely thought-of releases for the R&S subsidiary Apollo in a comparatively myopic period of meter. He's quoted Steve Reich, David Sylvian, Kraftwerk, and Brian Eno as early influences, but more latterly has been attempting to quest for paths of creative design opened up by John Coltrane and Karlheinz Stockhausen. Although earlier releases focussed on sprawl, largely beatless experimental soundscapes, his more recent work has integrated elements of breakbeat styles such as trip-hop and jungle -- for the most part in footing of production techniques, as opposed to esthetic qualities, and with in spades Locust dash. Truth Is Born of Arguments was the number 1 release of this sort, and included heavy, distorted pleximetry and coordination compound, looping polyrhythms similar to (although much more sluggish than) those establish in drum'n'bass.
Non always the ambient misanthrope, Van Hoen splits his creative activity between Locust and a number of on-going collaborative ventures, among them Autocreation (techno) and Involution (post-techno observational electronic), the latter with Seefeel frontman Daren Seymour. Van Hoen's besides realised a numeral of remixes for Seefeel and As One, among others, and has recently unified elements of multimedia system and performance artistic creation into his live appearances. Van Hoen besides released the occasional recording under his given list, including 1996's Last Flowers from the Darkness and 1999's Playing with Time.
