Terre Thaemlitz
G.R.R.L.
(Comatonse/US)
EXPERIMENTAL
What does one of the most notorious contemporary ambient producers do in
the face of a 'market' which demands releases fall in line with rigid
production categories? He plants his tongue firmly in cheek and
rhythmically lets loose the juice. G.R.R.L. is decked out head to toe in
the latest genre fashions; drum and bass, minimal techno, deep house,
techxotica and electrocynicism. What gives Terre such an antagonistic
license to ill? Quite simply G.R.R.L., skill. (Teep)
Terre Thaemlitz
Raw Through A Straw/Tranquilizer
(Comatonse/US)
AMBIENT
Represses come along a lot like the re-initiation of an old friendship,
each of you coming back together after having learned something new, yet,
discovering you have both remained very much the same. Tranquilizer still
squeezes my heart with deadly serious ambient beauty. Raw Through a Straw
is an extended soulful treated piano Vs organ chop set adrift atop the
steady funk horizon of a break loop. Take this opportunity to revisit an
old friend, Ambient. (Teep)
Ippi Tomei
Electric Kool Aid Acid Test EP
(Breath/??)
EXPERIMENTAL
To "rinse" is not a colloquialism exclusive to the drum and bass deejays,
this metaphorical homily is professed too, by the experimental
jocks...with records just like the Electric Kool Aid Acid Test. Sipping
from the vial marked "Ippi Tomei" induces a sound collage of hurricane
phlange drums which push around tornadoes of samples and leave the
landscape littered with invincible wincing synths, thankfully a hip hop
sonic janitor drops by to clean up the breakdowns. (Teep)
DEMOlisten
J. Stewart
$tinkworx E.P.
(poop03/US)
The coming out party should be any day now for this techno debutante from
the Old Well Apartments of Carrboro, North Carolina. $tinkworx serves up
an excellently arranged and accomplished 15 (!) course DEMOlisten dinner
of aquatic techno funk chimed out with hand crafted melodies and complex
homegrown micro-programming. Pieces like "beats are drone workers"
effectively amalgamate the plumpness of a minimal Dance Mania bassline
with the determined complex beauty of Psyche. The end result is sharp as
Sharks tooth biorhythms. (Teep)
$tinkworx, c/o J. Stewart, old well apts. -AA1, Carrboro, NC 27514
stinkho@topsecret.net, (919) 967-7274
Label Profile by Teep
Interdimensional Transmissions
IT Fax 313 - 973 - 3148 bmg@monkey.org
It does not take prophetic supernatural voices to impart the sad fact that
the fine art of electronic music record making has more recently been
blasphemed. But indeed, around the Celtic Hallowed day of Samhain, the
voices inside Brendan M. Gillen's head were contributing to his
acknowledgment that the time had arrived to lift the veil between past,
present, and future and set the conduit of Interdimensional Transmissions
into place.
Each IT release delivers BMG's exceptional definition of "Quality Control"
as applied to every detail of the record releasing process, be it the
gentle twist on an echoplex or the bump up of feedback in a recording, or
the physical spacing of the grooves and locks and color(s) of the vinyl.
The message revealed to even the novice collector is that the Vision of
Interdimensional Transmission is Art, and as I imagine BMG holding up the
latest IT product, I hear him proudly profess, "...this is my statue."
Interdimensional Transmissions Discography
IT No.1 Ectomorph - parallax view/subsonic vibrations
IT No.2 Ectomorph - stark ep
IT No.3 Ectomorph - abstraction ep
IT No.4 V/A - from beyond volume 1
IT No.5-7 will feature the talents of Flexitone, Shake, Soul Oddity,
Krok, Synapse, Will Web, DJ K-1, Uni, Pullsinger/Tunakan,
4E, Latex, and Frankie Carbone.
V/A
From Beyond Vol.1
(Interdimensional Transmissions/US)
TECHNO
The instructions given to the super hero's of techno who have been
enlisted to breath life into Interdimensional Transmissions first "various
artists" effort were quite simply "take funk to the future". Volume 1
pulls the globe trotting talents of I-f alongside IDM poster boy Mike
Paradinas (aka the mu-ziq) and Detroit Steady Rockers, DJ Godfather and Le
Car. The outcome is a record which will charmingly further develop the
bridge between the dance floor and the bedroom. (Teep)