There are several musical items currently inducing 'oohs' around this
household, each inhabiting slightly different sub-generic territory:-
Yasume ~ Where We're From the Birds Sing a Pretty Song (CCO)
on which Xela develops his cinematic sound design + reminiscent melody +
intricate beats into a more satisfying outcome than his debut on Neo Ouija
(which was good but not great). Here, with collaborator Gabe someone or
other (can't recall but he's aka Logreybeam), he mines some of the
emotive-atmospheric landscape of Badalamenti/Lynch, combining it with sounds
recognisably in a Neo Ouija/CCO/Morr vein, but avoiding the tendency to the
twee of the Usual Suspects of the aforementioned rosters. Mmmm. Niiiiice.
Anders Ilar ~ Everdom (Shitkatapult)
wherein an unknown Scandinavian gent, after starting out with essentially an
Apparat/Esem soundalike track, unleashes some of the deepest darkest
(without lapsing into cartoon Lustmordian gloom and doom of Dark Ambient)
droning textures on an unsuspecting IDM audience (in fact this ain't no IDM
at all), leaving us perched on precipices of the abyssal, or even privy to a
lost soundtrack to a subterranean shipwreck. Chthonic as buggery, mate.
Komet ~ Gold (Raster-Noton)
featuring Frank Bretschneider's wrong-end-of-the-telescope reduction of house
and techno. It's minimal, but without the longueur. An irresistible brew of
subliminal shimmies and peripheral micro-events insistently burrows its way
into the part of your brain that corresponds to 'groin'/'pelvis', and you can't
help smiling. Single word voicings punctuate percussively. Raster gets down
and gets post-fonky with yo head. Chin-strokingly kinetic. A scaled-down
electro-amphetamine cousin to the dub-valium of stablemate Senking's _Tap_.
They're all good.
alan
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Alan Lockett, (Language Co-ordinator, English),
Language Centre, University of Bristol,
30-32 Tyndall's Park Road, Bristol BS8 1PY, UK
Alan.R.Lockett@bristol.ac.uk
tel: +44 117 9741311 fax: +44 117 9741377
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