lia mice: the sampler as time machine

Optimo Music releases The Sampler As Time Machine, the new album from Lia Mice, Australian-born but UK-residing DJ, producer and instrument designer. Mice on the album: "When I moved to London in 2015, many things changed at once (I started going to more techno and electro nights, I changed my live-set setup, and I had access to a fully-equipped recording studio through my music masters program. At the same time I was reading a lot of books on time travel, not just science fiction but also psychology and neuroscience (like how the human brain perceives time from moment to moment, how we can experience overlapping time, and how we interact with our past and future through memory and imagination. The Sampler As A Time Machine is the result of all these new influences coming together. The tracks were developed out of ongoing studio experiments interpreting these different ideas of time travel by using samplers and tape to re-sample and manipulate original music performed by me on various instruments including my voice."