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

[Joshua Maremont <thermal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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/