Plant43 - Feeding the Machines (2025)

Please note: Vinyl edition has been delayed and will be shipping on 11th August. Apologies and thanks for your patience.

A gathering of souls emerges from the depths of a misty forest…

Celebrating the 20th anniversary of his first release, Emile Facey presents Feeding the Machines, his tenth album and the culmination of his work to date. These ten tracks explore Emile’s passion for electro, drum and bass and techno.

“Melodies and rhythms have circled around my mind for as long as I can remember,” says Emile. “Becoming a music producer enabled me to make these sounds a reality and express my feelings without language.”

“I love a precise, machine-made sound but with this album I wanted to foreground the human. I recorded multiple passes of phrases from hardware synths, each one capturing my physical movements in real time. The slight differences in each layer creates this organic texture to the tracks, giving it a looseness or ‘imperfection’. Computers and automation are important tools that enable us to shape and capture our unique voices – I’ve been fascinated by the sound of technology for decades – but I’m concerned about the far-reaching impact of AI in the hands of big tech and how that could negatively affect people’s relationship with their creativity, plus the huge environmental impact of training it. Humans are weird and it’s that unpredictability that makes us interesting.”

Feeding the Machines is available digitally from Bandcamp and as a limited edition double blue transparent vinyl which comes with a download card featuring two exclusive tracks, Integrated Hardware and The Watching Owls. Every copy ordered from Bandcamp also comes with a sticker featuring the new Plant43 Recordings 2025 logo.