While recovering from having wisdom teeth yanked out of my mouth I am able
to catch up on the backlog of music that has invaded my room. One such
release is squaremeter - 14id1610s (ant-zen). As indicated on the back:
sampling and construction by panacea.
This is not your typical panacea (or ant-zen) release. It is an
exploration into sound that might be more at home on mego or 12k. Small
glitches are exploited, high pitch noises come in an out, occasionally
there is a semblance of a beat. Perhaps it is best described as minimal
plunderphonics. The most amusing bits on the CD are the samples of Bill
Drumond (KLF fame) reading passages from Bad Wisdom (the original readings
are avaialbe on the net I believe). An entire track is created around
these samples (and it is done very well).
In short, I am impressed with this CD. I did not expect this from
panacea. Has anyone heard: Panacea - Brasilia (Architettura Vol. 4) ? from
what I have read it may be similar to this release (in structure). If so
it is going to be a must have.
lastly, from the ant-zen web site (which sums up the album better than I
can):
Squaremeter:
a collection of electronic minimalism, pure-tone synthesis and
computer-generated sound. this music explores the inner-workings of sound
and synthesis and often involves the use of ultra-modern synthesis
techniques, in this case, sampling and sound generators. this is
experimental post-techno, an up-and-coming genre of sound, and it is
intended for the listener who can appreciate its bold sense of
exploration, as well as the surreal beauty of the world it evokes. complex
digital sound-samples are immaculately re-constructed to feature a subtle
interference of sub-tone minimalism. a scientific bridge between sinetone
minimalism and sonic mega-sampling which could be visualised as digital
ambient. 89% of all samples are taken from various ant-zen releases.
sampled, de- and reconstructed by panacea.
-daniel: Head Monkey: Mad Monkey Records:
http://www.madmonkey.org
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