Time has come for me to post something very insignificant, again.
::: Mu-Zig --- PHI*1700(u/v) (Michael Paradinas)
::: R&S Records (BEL) RS94048
::: 12" CDS
Black Side 1/PHI*1700(u/v)
2/Paco
Silver Side 1/Crosstown Traffic
2/Xolbe II
I went through Dante's Hell to get this release. No shop in Finland
carried it, so I had to search for alternative methods; finally, the
guys at Dialectrique (Patric Rombaux et al., thank you very much!) had
it, and I received it yesterday.
I have given it two superficial spins, and it sounds like, well,
Mu-Zig.
There is just one question: doesn't the background noise on `Xolbe II'
sound just like a looped hair-dryer?
::: Autechre --- Anti EP (Sean Booth/Rob Brown)
::: WARP Records (UK) WAP54
::: 12" (CDS?)
A 1/Lost
2/Djarum
B 1/Flutter
Fascinating Rhythms
The story goes that Autechre's Sean Booth and Rob Brown met on a
Manchester nightbus while each was involved with separate crews of
graffiti artists. You could say it was a colourful beginning for
two of the post-ambient underground's most vivid interlocutors.
Bands will invariably tell you that they don't like being lumped into
movements or "scenes". well, that's tough. Because, with groups like
Seefeel, Reload/Global Communication/Link, Mu-Zig and our old friend
Richard Aphex, Autechre make up a kind of (literal) new wave of the
new wave. What they have in common, apart from all having worked
with each other and having been lumbered with the "ambient" tag at
one time or other, is a willingness to twis accepted club formats
into vibrant new shapes, and to experiment with the range of emotions
that can be brought to a dancefloor. Essentially, they're engaged in
an act of collective subversion: they are to club culture what the
Merry Pranksters were to original acid culture. This is especially
true of Autechre. Take their new EP, "Anti", with its centrepiece
"Flutter" - a long track which more adventurous DJs have been spinning
on promo for several weeks now. "Flutter" features what the pair term -
and this may sound alarming at first - a "non-repetitive rhythm". In
other words, behind the tune's typically aching, almost Sati-esque
central motif, lurks a form of measured chaos. Imagine Bach switched
on to jungle. The proceeds from "Anti" will be going to Liberty, to
help it campaign against the Criminal Justice Bill at home and in
the European courts. Autechre might be outsiders now, but then, as
Sean Boothj says, "A lot of the most original material comes from
people who aren't from the club scene. The outsider often has the
best ideas."
(Andrew Smith, The Face, Volume 2, Number 73 (October), Page 22)
::: Seefeel --- Fracture Tied (Mark Clifford)
::: WARP Records (UK) 10WAP53
::: 10"
A/Fracture
B/Tied
I haven't yet had a chance to listen to this one. I doubt that anyone
is even remotely interested in my rections to various records, but I
will post a touchy-feely review as soon as I can get to a turntable.
::: Patrick Lindsey --- Engagement/Long Jolly (Patrick Lindsey)
::: Harthouse/Eye Q Musikproduction GmbH (GER) HH10"-005
::: 10"
Other Side 07:06 159 Engagement
This Side 11:14 150 Long Jolly (Torment II)
Why is every label that I am following suddenly releasing heaps of
10" records? I got this one today as well, and haven't had a chance to
even have a spin.
I have had hard times listening to Germ's `Gone', GPRCD6. It is
such a whirl of aural texture that I should think twice before posting
a review on it.
Not very content-full but feeling like posting something,
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