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Wed, 26 Mar 1997 11:41:03 -0800
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(idm) death ambient
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span out at the death ambient gig last night, heres a short review (for what it is worth) and some of the stuff i spun before and after the band btw - jim plotkin showed me all these crazy records he bought in germany - including first 3 cluster albums , 1st mute 7" and loads of early 1980's german new wave, he also had stuff from source (both general magic and pita lp's) and is working on an album project for mego - so that should be one to watch for review death ambient trio of jim plotkin (guitar) , ikue mori (electronic percussion) and kato hideki (bass) the trio dispense with the sounds traditionally associated with their instruments and conjure up both violent and serene soundscapes, plotkin sits with the guitar on his lap and an fx rack in front of him creating floating drone backdrops or dropping crystalline chord shapes, hideki created a free form noise scape abusing his bass by physically striking the body, dragging a chain across the strings and running a bow up and down the frets whilst feeding the whole thing through an fx vacuum, a couple of times the music broke suddenly into a tranquial almost oriental feel with mori keying gentle lilting melodies with lo-fi eastern rhythms, 50 minutes later with an apocalyptic rush of feedback and distortion it was over the london show (thursday) is being recorded for mixing it (radio 3), so be sure to check it out 4th world playlist erik dahl - fuge (comatonse) aurobindo - one (ash) 3rd eye foundation - short wave dub (lindas strange vacation) tortoise - ry cooder (thrill jockey) spatula freak - metal thing (plug research) small fish with spin - smark fish (apollo) photek - traenon (op art) devo - satisfaction (virgin) flying saucer attack - feedback song demo (domino) squarepusher - theme from goodbye renaldo (rephlex) stars of the lid - the better angels of our nation (sedimental) black dog - teh big issue (warp) fuxa - opelwerks (doorstep vinyl) flowchart - nationwide sleep disorder (darla) dj glove - tuning (flux) ui - skeltons (soul static) afx - children talking (warp) king crimson - larks tounge in aspic, part one (island) slack dog ensemble - new yawk dog (flower shop) panacea - stormbringer (chrome) seefeel - stare through (charlottes dub) (white label) cylob - loops and breaks (various tracks) (rephlex) gescom - untitled (skam) tonto's expanding head band - cybernaut (atlantic) lava - coral (lava) quant - intestinal sound (buckfunk 3000 remix) (dot) spiritulized - pure phase tone f (spaceman) seefeel - time to find (afx mix) (too pure) coopers - untitled (dum) amon duul - phallis dei (sunset) farflung - fade in (big jesus) sterolab - speedy car (duophonic) sm@4thworld http://dialspace.dial.pipex.com/4thworld/ check the 'propoganda' page - interviews + features on black dog/ as one/ musik aus strom / jimpster / compost / irdial + more