Soundtrack Avery James
Jamie Harley - Pre Show Music for Amon Tobin - ISAM, European Tour 2013

"Many have been asking what was playing before curtain up at the recent ISAM shows. long time friend and collaborator in sound Jamie Harley was in fact mixing this live from front of house. Jamie and I have toured together for years knocking venue sound systems into shape before shows among other things, but recently Jamie was persuaded to share his impeccable taste in diacritic music to set the tone for the evening. enjoy!" - Amon Tobin, ISAM

I rather like words. Especially English’s capacity for multiple words meaning almost the same thing and the way it absorbs/morphs other cultures and innovation, over time. Today’s word is diacritic. As in ‘diacritic music’. Which is used in the content of this mix by Amon Tobin soundman Jamie Harley.

Diacritic comes from the Greek.
Adj. 01. Diacritical. 02. Medicine Diagnostic or distinctive.

Noun. 01. A mark, such as the cedilla of façade or the acute accent of resumé, added to a letter to indicate a special phonetic value or distinguish words that are otherwise graphically identical.

In this context, I guess it’s meant to mean distinctive. This is one of those pieces. A Soundscape – Full of Sampled Sounds, Spoken Word About the Universe and Cut Up Clips From Paranoid B-Movies Made From the 1950's. It’s an evocative piece.