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::: Disjecta
::: Looking For Snags
::: Released 27 November 1995
::: CD / 2x12"
01 Dormin
02 Here
03 K-Bop
04 Gyric
05 Looking for Snags
06 Facemaker
07 Skeeze
08 Alum Chime
A few people have been nudging at me to review this one so I thought I'd
better before any serious hate mail started :)
Disjecta is Mark Clifford's (Seefeel) solo project, and Seefeel fans will
instantly recognise his touch. The darkness glimpsed in Succour is explored
here, echoey and deep, with sinister basslines and rumblings...
_Dormin_ bursts in with a harsh distorted heavily filtered bassline,
stabbing out a polyrythm, percussion ticks and preens itself in the
background and a Blue Calxesquey bit drifts around while this constantly
changing bass rasps around. This track certainly sets the tone.
_Here_ uses familiar thumped Seefeel echoing bass, clanks and seemingly
random wickedly low humming subbass stabs. Subtle skittering percussion
clinks and tinks fly about to mad effect in the stereo plane, a faded vocal
sample wanders around. The clank goes echoey and everything drifts in to the
distance.
_K-Bop_ is a big favorite, a gorgeous grinding sound pretty indescribable
sets the scene, in steps a fantastically simple and addictive key sequence
de duh de duh de duh de de duh, which plinks through the track with
variations, scratchings and filterings and another heavily filtered mildy
slow break beat thing. Wild and enormous.
_Gyric_ has a fast skittering hard bruising bassline, flying rattling
percussion, tiny squirty tappings and an wicked analogue tweaky feel to it,
with little crescendos and drops all the way through. Mad.
And then yet more madness.
_Looking For Snags_, simple thuds, clangs, heavy heavy distorted filtered
hihat(?) sound, then bonkers clinks and tinny clanks, then a kind of
semi-cheesy Aphex stringy bit, but wild and out of key, then if it couldn't
get any better, little sub-bass wuffles shift about, maybe the cheesy melody
bit is a bit too prominant, but this is forgiven...
Calmer things happen now, _Facemaker_ starts with slowish bass pulses,
echoing rimshot things before a delicate, again, Calxey, SAWIIey sound
drifts around. Simple ambience.
Pause, then, _Skeeze_ more harsh mad, skittering sounds and things and then
wow, glorious, harsh distorted vaguely tubular sound (with variations)
rhythms, snarling schneeping rattle sounds.
_Alum Chime_ is the most perfectly named track on the face of the planet,
very very Aphexy, circa Surfing On... (I guess not sampled?) rhythm in the
background, and a tiny delicate chimey melody that kinda of mirrors the
previous catchy phrase. Faded percussion occasionally burbles in the
background... This tune has been quietly driving me mad for weeks. :)
So we have heavily distorted, filtered and distinctive techno, the tracks
all variations on each other. Clifford is exploring his sound space and
finding gold. Heavily filtered and distorted gold though :)
If you like Seefeel, you will like this, if you like RDJ you will like this.
If you like both you will *really* like it.
Yes please. I look forward to the album.
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