Tim O'Keefe & Andy Rourke – Radio Signals (Track Premiere)

Listen to the bubbling techno track Radio Signals from the unlikely pairing of composer Tim O'Keefe and Smiths bassist Andy Rourke

Feature by Music Team | 30 Jul 2018

The Skinny are delighted to be premiering Radio Signals from the unlikely pairing of film score composer Tim O’Keefe and Smiths bassist Andy Rourke. The pair actually worked together a couple of years back on O’Keefe’s album Let Me Get What I Want, that he released under the name Daddy alongside actor and director James Franco in 2016. The album is made up of songs using Smiths-inspired poems written by Franco; “Through a bit of serendipity we were able to get in touch with Andy and asked him to work with us on the record,” O’Keefe says.

Off the back of the Daddy record, O’Keefe and Rourke have remained good friends and have continued to work on music together which has included scoring, the sadly no longer with us, Anthony Bourdain’s Raw Craft web series.

Radio Signals, which is being released as part of a Trafico Music compilation on 31 July, is a relentless eight-minute-long pounding and bubbling slice of electronica. Listen to it exclusively in the SoundCloud player below or by clicking here if it’s not displaying correctly. “Radio Signals is an atmospheric texture-layered techno track,” O’Keefe tells us. “Although the foundation is built from step-sequenced rhythms and synths, the majority of synth melodies and textures were played live using a variety of classic Roland & Korg analogue synths. Driving the track all the way through is Andy’s signature bass grooves.”

“This is definitely one of my most minimalist bass grooves,” adds Rourke, “but sometimes less is more as on this occasion. It still punctuates against the lovely synth textures and arrangement by Tim.”


Trafico Music VA Vol. 1 is released on 31 Jul

https://traficomusic.bandcamp.com/