false alarm, i guess. still too edgy to sleep.
maybe one more. i can't believe that nobody has brought this up yet.
Caustic Window's Pirelli-tire track (Joyrex J9iii) is on here!
and it's not even this collection's 'prize'...
OUTER SPACE COMMUNICATIONS V. 4.01-T1
Disturbance IT
1. intro
2. PRINCIPIA AUDIOMATICA (s.ocurscak & m. rajakovic)
cognitive penetrating system
should be huge, seeing as how they sound like Stasis, Bochum Welt, B12, and
In Sync vs Mysteron all rolled up into [as] one. 4/4 with enough 808
clambering going on to keep things intelligent - beautiful Warp-worthy
strains of melody, too.
3. RED SECTOR A
celestial freefall
also pounds away in 4/4 but is nice and dance-y/trance-y with a mangled vocal
hook which wouldn't be out of place on a Box Saga 12". Filter and Rephlex
finally meet?
4. MONOMORPH (f. & m. d'arcangelo)
new life
wonderful! the sort of Rephlex-ology which The WIRE apparently despises but
which keeps us coming back to RDJ and Grant for seconds... and thirds... and
fourths... is it half or all of Monomorph which is now D'Arcangelo?
Monomorph's LPs are bruisers, great slamming intelligent stuff like Unit
Moebius or RA-X. this is something altogether different - a delicate
Roupe/BDP number which could have been Skam's next proud release.
5. NEBULA (e. trampus)
irregular area
can we say "Interloper????" i never knew that Ryman has been so (deservedly)
influencial! Nebula soon abandon the twinkling plink-plonk style, dip into
some Dn'B (between Bukem and Techstep), dawdle in a mellow HipHop groove, and
return to the jungle while retaining all of these elements. what was i saying
'bout Interloper? forget it. Ryman should be taking lessons from Trampus, not
vice-versa!
6. ASTRAL BODY (a. bergamasco)
ispipullapash
not a promising name - visions of Goa dreck dance in my head. but what's
this? very original jungle-flecked Downtempo. Kid Loop(s)y and Cool
Breez(e)y. i must have Filter on the brain this morning. i've never heard
breakbeats like these - all high-end and toms. sounds like someone's using
scissors for rhythmic accompaniment. we'll even forgive the (submerged and
discombobulated) diva samples.
7. T.W.E. (s. renghi & g. fagiola)
release
waltzing gate-hinge ambience. except that it's not a waltz (this is in some
completely nutty time signature), the creaky sounds reveal themselves to be
string patches, and the ambience is secondary to a rollicking HipHop
undercurrent and 808 damage. whoah! four minutes of something like this is
just NOT enough. anyone know if there's more out there?
8. QUIET MEN (l. monaco & n. buono)
brain
Sublime/ARTy techno. unusually quick pace for this sort of thing - it
literally gallops! not exceptional, but a very nice sample of its style. more
melodically interesting than it initially appears to be- reminds me of
ACV-time Leo Anibaldi. not that *everything* needs to be tied back to
Rephlex, but... it fits.
9. A3000 (m. repetto & s. riesen)
filtered
i hate to do it - again - but... Synectics. 4/4 Acid at its most tolerable -
actually enjoyable once you develop a taste for it. all rhythm and pulse, no
melody. neither fast nor slow, loud nor soft. just right. hasn't Repetto
released a slew of techno/House 12"s recently?
10. CUBIS (f. belvisa)
icons of plasma
i know, i know... not every artist can be paralleled with another. Cubis,
though, sounds a LOT like the wonderful Neuropolitique. this track isn't as
slippery as "can't get off the slide" or "mind you don't slip," but it's
close. and it has that great slipped-disc groove which Cogger has perfected.
11. L.O.S.D. (p. fleur & r. mens)
chaoscillate
is this the same group as L?SD? or is that their more 'experimental'
incarnation? then again, L.O.S.D. appear on the Disinformation remix album,
_Antiphony_. anyone know what the deal is? theirs is easily the strangest
track here. rubbery and very alluring, not unlike ? - but cut for the 'floor,
not for the stereo. makes for fine listening, though.
12. CAUSTIC WINDOW (richard d. james)
joyrex J9iii
you know it. you love it. it's brilliant. hurry up with that CW album, RDJ!
13. OCRALAB (r. biscione)
mode d'emploi
very fine and fragile with itterated female and toast-stylee male vocals
daring between a forest of bassy 303 kicks and lush, lacy electronics. hard
to describe for some reason.
14. IT (?)
the little ones (subcode 56)
more Anibaldi-isms, this one almost copied note-for-note from "the story
become!" - until it crashes into the "I Dream of Genie" theme(!) and some
very frazzled beats.
15. KALEIDOPHONE (m. gianfreda)
odd chatterings
they are NOT kidding! wavering spring-adelics, like a Spectrum cover of
"lo(g?)on-rock witch" yes, odd.
(unlisted)
16-32 (blank)
33. outro
not much of a track, but these bonus things are always fun.
i think it's safe to call it a night (day?), leaving Gerd and a few others
for tomorrow.
ta-
BR VII/ GuerillaG2-G4
np: zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz....