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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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org

daniel <daniel@eliteware.com> wrote:

quoted 18 lines While recovering from having wisdom teeth yanked out of my mouth I am able

>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.

Panacea's _Brasilia_ sounds quite similar to your description of the ant-zen release. It's definitely a departure from his first 3 albums (_Low Profile Darkness_, _Twisted Designz_ and _Phoenix Metabolism_). Not many beats on _Brasilia_, but plenty of strafing noise and glitchy static, though there's one track that harks back to his earlier vicious d&b style. Overall, it's difficult but rewarding listening for those with a tolerance for Mego-esque digital-noise envelope-pushing. Dave Segal Managing Editor/Alternative Press Reviews/BPM/Reissue Redux Secret Ions on WCSB Thursdays 9-11PM EST [www.wcsb.org] np: lb- pop artificielle (Kk/Shadow) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org

Dave Segal wrote:

quoted 11 lines Panacea's _Brasilia_ sounds quite similar to your

> > Panacea's _Brasilia_ sounds quite similar to your > description of the ant-zen release. It's definitely > a departure from his first 3 albums (_Low Profile > Darkness_, _Twisted Designz_ and _Phoenix Metabolism_). > Not many beats on _Brasilia_, but plenty of strafing > noise and glitchy static, though there's one track > that harks back to his earlier vicious d&b style. > Overall, it's difficult but rewarding listening for those with a > tolerance for Mego-esque digital-noise envelope-pushing. >

I have a feeling that the ant-zen CD might be from the same session. In an interview that appeared in FAQT (Vol 3 No 4) Panacea mentions Brasilia. He basically says that he wasn't sure if caipirinha would like it and if they didn't it would end up on ant-zen. My personal guess is that he had lots of material and only some of it made it to caipirinha. Of course I could be entirely wrong... -daniel (feeling like such a trainspotter) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org