dear idm-l brain trust, is anybody currently carrying the torch for the
Mitek records style??
This might just be a distinction I've developed in my own head, but I've
long had a separate little zone roped off for a "Mitek style" that is
particularly exemplified by Mikael Stavostrand's Lite and the first Claudia
Bonarelli album (neither of which are on Bandcamp!! soulseek em rn if
you're not familiar).
Looser than early SND, less austere/robotic than classic Raster-Noton, less
housey/funky than early Jelinek, but more rhythmically-oriented than
classic 12k/Line. Less aggressive than Mika Vainio and less melodic than
Dan Abrams. The defining features would maybe be a conspicuous sparseness
and itsy bitsy microscopic percussion sounds that somehow feel a tick more
"organic" than most of the Glitch/Clicks n Cuts/Whathaveyou that came from
more southerly parts of Europe.
Other than Mitek's catalogue, the only other thing I've really found that
orbit this same vibe are the two El Fog
<
https://flau.bandcamp.com/album/reverberate-slowly> records by Masayoshi
Fujita. Stavostrand seemed to move into less delicate tech-house territory
after his (very excellent and quite Miteky) record for Force Inc. Bonarelli
has a new record that is very good but stylistically quite far from
"Everything Happens."
All this is to say: point me towards more tunes that have "beats," but
beats made of audaciously tiny components.
yf,
rk