Genre Electronica | ||
Purple World (sometimes spelled as Purpleworld, PRPLWRLD) is an Australian electronic music act based in Melbourne, Victoria. The key member is Jonathan Swords-Holdsworth (who is also an author of Science Fiction and Slipstream Fiction), although the band has worked with various artists from the Melbourne electronic music scene over the years, both musically and in production.
They had a hit single with their track Dawn in 1996-1997, and have appeared in one form or another on various compilations and worked with some of Melbourne's better known electronic musicians and artists. Other entities associated with PurpleWorld include the Clan Analogue Australian electronic arts collective, of whose Melbourne chapter Swords-Holdsworth spent some time as an organiser, and various Melbourne based bands including Motionless Scene, ZOG, DoSE and NerfCore.
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The band has used many different kinds of instruments including treated acoustic instruments and vocals, samples, and digital and analog synthesized sounds. Purple World tends to record digitally and have in recent years leaned progressively more and more towards software based synthesis.
Purple World's music is electropop in feel and is heavily sequencer based but pays attention to texture, often "hiding" sounds in the background so they are not noticed until after several listenings. They have been described as being reminiscent of the acts that influence them, including Klaus Schulze, Tangerine Dream and Scottish group Boards of Canada.
The band often changes completely when working with other acts, veering from dark moods and approaches similar to those of the British band Massive Attack, through textured ambience informed by influences such as Brian Eno, to stark violent electronic rhythm and percussion compositions along the lines of Front 242.