Scott Brothers’ latest musical alias, Automatic Fields, release the debut album, The Mood Machine today via Soundcloud. Automatic Fields is a direct decedent of the shoegaze movement of the early 1990s. But instead of guitar and drums, Automatic Fields use keyboards and samples to create a similar atmosphere.

The name Automatic Fields is derived from two prominent surrealist texts, Automatic Message and The Magnetic Fields. “I was very interested in using William Burroughs’ cut-up technique with sound. Taking random samples, cutting them together then building entire tracks around those cut-up samples. With these cut-up samples as a base, I relied on just a few keyboard pads to create the main sound. The Mini-Moog Model D’s Fiberglass pad with its amazing, soaring highs and carpets of floating noise beneath was one that I used often. The other was a pad that created a wonderful choral sound I used in various ways to provide a shoegaze/dream pop vocal style.”

The title track, “The Mood Machine”, opens with an ethereal chorus and moves into a layer of samples from 70’s commercials. “Love Among the Easy Listening Androids” is a suite of musical pieces that move from looping sounds from an educational film strip to soft rock synth into jolting noise experiments. “Off-world Phantasies” opens a doorway to an expansive journey into a vast universe. “Kaleidoscope” closes the album with a blissful looping refrain of the word “kaleidoscope” enveloped by swirling organs and rising choruses.

The Mood Machine is the fifth release in the Fading Machine series.

Mood Machine tracklist:

Sentimental Malady

Chroma Kiss

Ultraviolet Phase

Off-world Phantasies

The Mood Machine

Here Comes the Soft Interface

Love Among the Easy Listening Androids

Memories of the Future

Kaleidoscope

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