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Feb 03, 2016 By Christopher Roberts Atlas Sound

Stereolab’s co-founder Tim Gane has teamed up with synth player Holger Zapf and former Stereolab drummer Joe Dillworth to form a new trio named Cavern of Anti-Matter. They will be releasing their debut album, void beats / invocation trex, on February 19 via Duophonic and previously the band had shared “Melody in High Feedback Tones” and “Tardis Cymbals.” Now they’ve shared another song from the record, “Liquid Gate,” via a video for it. The track features Bradford Cox of Deerhunter and Atlas Sound on vocals and the colorful video was helmed by British film director Peter Strickland (Berberian Sound Studio, The Duke Of Burgundy). Watch it below.

Strickland talked to Uncut about the video and collaborating with Gane: “We spoke about working on a film together and about drum machines. I wanted this very electronic soundtrack. Back in the ‘90s Stereolab’s music actually made me rethink film, the way you can use repetition as a building block, in terms of accumulation and modulation. And all these weird juxtapositions, they were always throwing these odd black holes into the middle of their stuff. It was a very different way of doing things, fresh and inspiring.”

Void beats / invocation trex also features Mouse on Mars’ Jan St. Werner and Spacemen 3’s Sonic Boom. Gane had this to say about the project in a press release back when the album was announced: “Cavern of Anti-Matter are spectrum addicts, setting up tiny rhythmic cells and expanding on them in certain ways, splitting the melody and stretching out. The melodic movement is much slower due to the lack of words. At the moment, the Cavern sound is more what I want to do.”

Cavern of Anti-Matter Tour Dates:

25 Feb 2016 - Generiq @ le FJT des Oiseaux, Besançon, France
26 Feb 2016 - Generiq @ Cellier de Clairvaux, Dijon, France
27 Feb 2016 - Festival La Route Du Rock, St Malo, France
29 Feb 2016 - The Moth Club, London, UK, tickets
01 Mar 2016 - The Paradiso, Amsterdam. Netherlands
11 Mar 2016 - Kantine am Berghain, Berlin , Germany
3 Jun 2016 - Primavera Sound Festival, Barcelona, Spain