Album Notes

Jake Mandell was one of the first electronic musicians to exploit the laptop for musical production and experimentation. After producing three acclaimed albums and performing countless shows across Europe in the late 90’s and early years of this millennium, Jake returns after an eight year hiatus. Scales of Magnification is his fourth album, a landmark that is classic in its meticulous attention to micromelodies and macropercussion, while evoking a dynamically shifting sense of space, place, and atmosphere.

After ending his three year sojourn in Berlin as a pioneer in the laptop music scene and product manager for Native Instruments, Jake Mandell came home in 2003 to his native city of Boston for medical school.

For the past several years, Jake has busied himself dissecting not only the figurative framework of computer music, but also the literal human substance. Despite the sleepless nights throughout medical school, internship, and residency, the music hasn't stopped. The relentless sounds of the hospital continue to resonate into the music studio.

Influenced by everyday wonder of the ill and the healing, by the biological waveforms both reassuringly regular and frighteningly chaotic, Scales of Magnification is a deft disjunction of technical triplespins and evocative inflections.

After earning his MD in 2008, Jake Mandell is currently a resident in Radiology at Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School in Boston.

Brief Discography and Press:

* Parallel Processes, Worm Interface UK, 1998
Mix Magazine, Album of the Month
City Pages, Album of the Year

* Quondam Current, Force-Inc Germany, 2000
The Wire: “Low volume Techno with polished industrial ambiances....confident in its own chaos”
All Music Guide: “A cauldron of experimental textures” AMG Album Pick

* Love Songs for Machines, Carpark NYC, 2001
Alternative Press: “An album that should be required listening for every critic… just plain gorgeous”
SPIN: “found the soul in his machine”
XLR8R: “remarkable ability to instill the funk into the most obtuse of rhythms.”

* Slither DVD, K20 Records Germany, 2002, a visual album collaboration with Jeffers Egan
Nominated for Popkomm-Musik-DVD-Award for “Best Surround Sound Production.
Groove: “An astounding piece; a catapulting, twitching, beautifully wobbling, fully organic and abstract work of electronic art. It has the potential to become one of the modern trip-out classics.”
de:bug: “Slither is the most advanced and brutal trip imaginable in the current fields of perception and visual art.”

* Jake Mandell has remixed Monolake, Kid606, Richard Devine, Anthony Rother, Twerk, and others.

* He has appeared on numerous compilations on Schematic, Mille Plateaux, Klangkrieg, Diskono, Lucky Kitchen, and Proptronix