Someone posted enquiring about the Imbalance label; as i'm sitting at work
i'll be brief, but others can maybe flesh things out a bit. Its an
electro-acoustic offshoot of the BC/CR/Din etc. axis, with the emphasis on
fairly academic (in the literal, not insulting sense) computer music. It is,
i think, run by Robert Henke of Monolake. Closest to Monolakes stuff would
be Floating Point by Henke and Gerhard Behles, also of ML; its basically the
beatless bits from Interstate and Hong Kong stretched out with lots of
clicks, whirrs etc. Very organic and warm, and absolutely excellent. Almost
as good is Henke's Piercing Music which is similar in style but much more
stripped down, with periodsof silence throughout the continuous hour long
piece. Again, very warm and, umm, wet for want of a better phrase. Weiland
Samolak's Steady State Music is probably my favourite but has been known to
dismay anyone looking for any sort of tonal input; its basically a number of
pieces of steadily rising faintly noisy drones which sound like distant
traffic, while still remaining indefinably alien. My favourite album to
sleep to.
HAvent heard the full length Async Sense (Porter Rick's Andy Mellwig)
but i've got the 12" which features two atmospheric digital noise scapes,
one almost gabba Porter Ricks alike and the most unlistenable piece of music
(for me anyway) which has a beat moving againt a rhythmic backdrop which is
1 or 2 bpm out. The drift between the two parts is enough to make me feel
ill.
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