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VVM Records - Privileged Frames For Reference
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1 - Alien Porno Midgets - High Altitude Over Hawaii
2 - Japanese Industrial Agents - Expectation
3 - Oleg Satichenko - Emissions From Reactor Room 17
4 - Mild Man Jan - Clean
5 - Frequency Band (Ghz) 23.6-24.0 - Alien Conversation
6 - Brioche Kretzaal - End
7 - Jega Vs. Datathief - Kaya
8 - Sherpa - Expedition
9 - Objective - Crash
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11 - Course
12 - Mild Man Jan - Mucky
13 - Jowonio Productions - Venusian Lounge Music
High Altitude Over Hawaii is junked-up plunderphonics - Drugged-up
beachcombers play vibrato over an orchestration of scissors and beer bottles.
Expectation takes some Aphex noise beats, cuts them up, scatters them about
and ferments them in an Autechre-style barrel. Emissions From Reactor Room
17 portrays the warning signs, but for me sounds too rhythmical - a lego
Chernobyl perhaps? Clean is certainly not like the name - snares are
distorted by infrasonic bass, laid over rumblings and jagged burblings.
Aliased pianos and Casios have an argument on Alien Conversation, and the
Casios win, being louder. This is a conversation that *is* alien, not a
conversation between aliens. If Afrika Bambaataa had bought a BBC Radiophonic
Workshop LP instead of Computer World down at the thrift store, he might have
made something like Brioche Kretzaal's 'End'. Shiny brand new analogue
keyboards make funky sounds your mother would like.
The Jega track is vintage - he introduces a man and a woman discussing
immoral perversions as if they were negotiating the sale of a Big Mac, and
then before you've finished thinking about that, he hits a button which
starts up a crackling electro beat and lets his famous space harpsichords
build up the tension. Sherpa takes us out of the warm house on Christmas Day
(interrupting a great variety special on tv) and on a tour of his back
garden, a big place replete with glaciers, howling winds, auroras borealis,
shimmering crystals and prisms, snowstorms and snowholes. Like Tron meets
Krypton. Objective, firstly with Crash, lets rip with bass that jumps around
and never keeps still. Portamento computer sounds keep up the momentum, and
eventually it hits a locked groove. Audience participation is required to
continue the music beyond this point, but it's worth it, as Course builds on
the rhythmic base of Crash with added high frequencies. Mild Man Jan returns
with Mucky, which is an understatement, and makes Clean look pristine.
Accelerating away from Earth in a shuttle, orders are issued from mission
control that just don't make sense any more. Finishing off, Jowonio provides
some sweet soul music, and is kind of like an enhanced runout groove message,
but much more worthwhile.
Cheerio!
NP - John Coltrane - Transition