Irritations is a collection of sounds, instruments and livesets taken from caleb cobell's/meekspeaker's upcomming album, Irritations. The theme of this collection is to take an everyday common and irritating sound and meld it into something beautiful and inspiring. Here we have 3 basic recordings, a power drill, sounds from a large party, and a recording of a female orgasm, all mangled into playable sounds, and set up as Instrument Racks. Also, contained in this collection, are the complete Live Sets/.als files so you can catch a glimpse of MeekSpeaker's workflow.

About Caleb Cobell
  Meek Speaker(aka Caleb Cobell)started out his musical life in 1994 as The Gibbon. Like many electronic artists, he began producing his first tracks on the humble Atari ST using fairly basic trackers and sequencers like Protracker and Quartet and an early form of Steinberg’s Cubase. The style of these varied from hard techno stompers to rambling ambient epics heavily influenced by artist like The Aphex Twin, Orbital and other heros of the british techno scene of the early nineties. Moving onto the PC in 1999 The Gibbon produced classics like The Saturday Night EP(2000) and Goblin EP(2001) These proved to be more accessable, melodic affairs with quirky beats and jolly riffs. It was around this time he teamed up with brother Adam Cobell and formed the short-lived band Catford named after his then home town. The duo produced a number of tracks under this moniker with most of them ending up on The Catford EP 1 and the album Manus. The music was mostly experimental and not-so easy listening with many references to the brothers varied music tastes. There was a bit of a break from the music from 2001 to 2006 while Caleb went and did ‘other things’ with very little music production during this time apart from the odd track here and there. 2006 of course was Caleb’s return to a creative burst of activity under the current name Meek Speaker producing experimental/electronica/techno and as he states on his myspace page he sounds like “Someone earnestly trying to make decent, emotive and cracking tunes and sometimes possibly, just maybe, succeeding.

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