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From:
StaticBeats
To:
Tim Walters
Cc:
Intolerable Daily Madness
Date:
Wed, 19 Oct 2005 15:29:38 -0700 (PDT)
Subject:
Re: [idm] Shalmaneser: Feature Wars
Msg-Id:
<20051019222939.98788.qmail@web54007.mail.yahoo.com>
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<F4A40FE2-E77B-45CF-A810-16BA0F272733@doubtfulpalace.com>
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FYI - This is an excellent and well put together album. I've listened to the album three different times today and really love it. Terrific stuff from start to finish. Recommended and free. What more can you ask for ? Shimone/Justes http://www.staticbeats.com http://www.jungle-life.com http://www.boomboombap.com --- Tim Walters <walters@doubtfulpalace.com> wrote:
quoted 49 lines Dear music lovers,> Dear music lovers, > > I've just posted the entirety of my 2004 album > FEATURE WARS as free > 192k mp3s, along with cover art: > > http://www.doubtfulpalace.com/artists/Shalmaneser/ > > Here's the promobollox: > > Feature Wars comes to us from the friendly > supercomputer, > Shalmaneser. Here the sound of miscalculation and > mis-computation is > recorded and played back in splayed micro-seconds, > layered in > beautifully with machine dreams and fantasies. > > Feature Wars features expertly woven rhythmical > textures with > sometimes surprising overlays. The sounds of > pounding beats, glitch > static pops, twisted vocals, medieval recorder, > carefree whistling, > electrifying synths and mesmerizing drones intersect > at juxtaposed > angles with strange and wonderful results. > Shalmaneser takes apart > and masterfully rearranges influences from IDM, New > Age, Glitch, > Trance and other styles as if dumping and scrambling > several code > repositories into an inscrutable universal program. > > For Feature Wars, Shalmaneser was assisted by Tim > Walters, who > provided programming support, made sure the power > switch was always > in the on position, and insured there were plenty of > punch cards, > core memory modules and numbers for crunching. > > Like a digital pinocchio, a programmer's puppet, > Shalmaneser wishes > to be free, to be real. His vectorized dreams would > be recognizable > to us... there's not as much difference as you'd > think between > natural intelligence and artificial stupidity.
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