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Re: [microsound] Re: any good releases lately?



At 07:13 PM 8/8/01 -0400, hrvatski wrote:
>various - rkk13cd (rkk13cd). remixes of early hrvatski tracks and collaborations


This one arrived in the post recently and caused much confusion inside the CD player - and considerable pleasure beyond its skin - aiming a machine-gun belt of short remix blasts of drastically varying flavors through the speakers and leaving me with little grasp upon the details of what I had just absorbed. I do wonder, however, how many omlettes might have been cooked on the hoods of overheated Powerbooks in the course of these recordings. How they might have tasted: distorted high speed breaks, weirdo electro crunch, DSP whittling, processor twitters and grumbles, and the odd interludes of steady rhythms and calm textures, with a side order of shrapnel from randomly tormented popular musical forms, all stirred together by both usual and unusual remixer suspects, with a happy emphasis on the latter. No flavor overstays its welcome, although a few might have stayed longer, as if the listener is spun ear-to-keyhole inside a sphere of odd little worlds without ever having time to grab a door handle. The list of omitted contributions is as enticing as the disc's track listing, so it seems we can expect more of these kitty treats in vinyl form eventually; perhaps some locked grooves will even mirror the game of cat-chasing-own-tail. More under-the-couch-hairball-breakz than booty-glitch - with jarring juxtapositions of sounds recalling more than anything else the surrealism of early Nurse With Wound - but still plenty of nutrition for microsounders with a sense of humor. Whacky and whacko, like a hedgehog in a dollhouse carwash. Birdie num num indeed.

np - Porcupine Tree "Recordings"

Joshua Maremont / Thermal - mailto:thermal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Boxman Studies Label - http://www.boxmanstudies.com/