Re: [microsound] Imbalance

[Joshua Maremont <thermal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 12:57 PM 6/6/00 -0400, Intermodal <Chrome3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I am interested in the music on the BC sublabel Imbalance. Is the music
> that has been released worth checking out, and how does it figure into
> the overall berlin sound?

I have three CDs on the Imbalance label and have played all of them quite 
frequently:  Robert Henke "Piercing Music" and "Floating Point" and Wieland 
Samolak "Steady State Music."  "Piercing Music" offers a single soundscape 
of watery sounds, a quite pleasant and very ambient variant of his style 
(although the dripping sounds are disturbingly akin to those I heard for 
several months a few years ago when my ceiling leaked, giving them a 
certain edge in the case of my own listening), while to this atmosphere 
"Floating Point" adds further textural variety as well as occasional 
distant rhythms hinting at a Monolake in a neighboring town.  While the 
connection to Monolake does tempt the inevitable reference to Chain 
Reaction, these two have more in common with Monolake's "Gobi" than with 
its "Hong Kong," although the same expansive approach to sound and 
production can be heard on all of these.  Samolak, meanwhile, appears on a 
"Hong Kong," but his own release is a collection of rich almost industrial 
drones, reminding me of a less arctic Thomas Koner or a less subterranean 
Lull, and while the sound here is unobtrusive and seemingly simple, "Steady 
State Music" (like Bernd Friedmann's similarly stealthy "Leisure Zones") 
keeps me returning for further listens and is probably my favorite of these 
three excellent CDs, all of which have happily found their way as well into 
my DJ sets.

np - Thermal

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