"...Logh Vohei is a powerful, no-nonsense, high voltage ambient - soundscapes - experimental - noise mixture. "In your face" multi-layered sounds, usually very dark and even paranoid, lots of mysterious atmospheres and a very distinct feel and storyline. While inspired by such veteran ambient experimental noisemakers such as Vesica Piscis, Biosphere, Moron Labs, Future Sound Of London, Oophoi, Brian Eno, Steve Roach, Merzbow, Throbbing Gristle, T.I.P., Tangerene Dream,and many more, Elmooht brings in a fresh, unique approach, resulting in a very personal style and sound..."

The Artist

Elmooht is Yaron Eshkar, born 1983 from Israel. A number of Elmooht projects have been concluded late in 2004, with most of these albums available for free download around the net. These include tracks for Moron Lab's LWIC4 album and collaborations with Vesica Piscis among others. Aside from producing Elmooht music, Yaron produces dance under the alias Faxi Nadu, and collabs with various artists as Cider Groove. Logh Vohei is Elmooht's debut retail album. Released during December 2004, the album is a split release between Moronlabs and Postunder Records.

The production and Gear Used

Elmooht writes:

"...a lot of field recordings, for instance from the streets and subways of Paris, radio, police scanners. I then drive my raw recordings into cycles and cycles of re-sampling. I could like record a sound on tape, then transfer it to my pc with live effects, then pass it through reaktor and into scope, then resample everything along with enw samples with other programs like ixi, audiomulch, tassman or something. The sampling process for the "Logh Vohei" LP took a few months, with samples sitting on the hardrive and new samples being made of them by driving them again and again into different progs.

After all that, its into soundforge for further processing and mashing these samples together into one chunck of sound, then proccessing the final outcome. So ya I would say that after the initial recording, I use a load of software, basically anything i can get my hands on. As far as instruments go I have a synth I use as a midi keyboard and some outboard effects, but really, it's mainly the pc."

Hardware:

AMD 2.7
Tannoy Reveal
Scope Home
DX 200 controller
AN1x controller
Ensoniq DP2
Distortion Pedals
MidiNES
SR16
Tape Decks, Walkmans, Radios, Videos
Good Mics, Shit Mics

Software:

ModularIII and Scope plugins (on Scope DSP)
IXI-Software tools
Peersynth
Software modulars - Audiomulch, SynthEdit, Reaktor, Tassman, VAZ, CrusherX
Wave Editor + Plugins

Sampled material:

Paris - airport, metro, streets, churches, museums, restaurants, bars, gardens, people, etc
Daily - streets, homes, phones, classrooms, conversations
Radio - static, commercials, talkshows, prayers, news
Studio - speech, instruments, synths, sounds, improvisations, resampling, cds, old faxi tracks, nintendo, netsamples, movies, documentaries

The Art

All The artwork was designed by Hadar Lubaton during late 2004. She used pictures Elmooht took in various places he went to for sound sampling, and made abstract vectorized impressions from these pictures. The electronic components are vectorized parts of a DIY tb3031 synth Elmooht is building. The on-disc art is Hadar's impression of the MIDI connector component. Addditional vectorized objects include a pc vent, water clock, audio cables, and an original starship.

Thank

Kelsey, Black Mizi Pro Duck Sun, Vesica Piscis, Phylum Sinter, Will R, Glassbox, 3x!13, Happy, Shlez, Arnovo, Uri, Yael, Postunder People, Moron Labs People, Soulseek People, Bill256, Gerber Cat, 3 Color Loonz, Dafi Yellow.