Anybody heard this one yet? The little blurb describing it is one of the
best written pieces describing theory/process/intent I've seen in a long
time (without actually saying anything). Does the record justify the
hype ; ) ?
CONOCO: Kemikoski (SIGMA007) LP
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The tracks Koski and Keppi, in particular, share many of the same
interests
that Delay explored with 'Ele', from the length of the tracks, 20 and 16
minutes respectively, to their methods of construction. These two tracks
hint at consistent beats more than they hold them and when the rhythm is
allowed to solidify its deconstruction begins again almost immediately.
Delay's refusal to "ground" the music could be seen as an attempt to
evade
the hypnotism of techno and the refusal to leave the music free enough to
float, an attempt to evade the dreamy and disinterested listening state
encouraged by ambient music. As with 'Ele' a strong dub influence is
evoked
by the immersive quality of the delay soaked sounds.
With Ventola Delay's concerns shift towards those of 'The Kind of Blue
EP'
and to a lesser extent his 1999 release on Chain Reaction. Here a jaunty
and jaundiced techno is experimented with. If techno has been typified by
a
kind of health, an ease of production, listenability and danceability
(the
proliferation of minimal techno in recent years would seem to support
this
view) then it is only natural that some producers are embracing an
unhealthy state where even the most basic tenets of techno are repeatedly
attacked and weakened. Delay is certainly among the "techno" producers
who
show little regard (or is it, in fact, the highest regard?) for the
tradition of techno. The tradition is used as the base for formulating
the
parameters of an experimentalism that necessarily calls for the negation
of
that tradition. An outright dismissal of everything developed within the
tradition would be as senseless as an uncritical acceptance of it and it
is
for this reason that even in this "impoverished" form it still resembles,
and warrants the name, techno.
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Thanks!
J
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