Re:mote Core :1
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01 ck dexter haven - exit ^ fault
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"As part of our 3rd anniversary celebration :1 will be given away for free to members of the re:mote update list as a thank you for your support.
while the compilation is taking longer than planned we have decided to start taking reservations for this release now. if you are interested in
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>nicolas/recycleyourears.com wrote:
":1" is a compilation that was released by the people of the british webzine Re:Mote Induction as a debut on their label Re:Mote Core, in 2001. Originally mostly available to the members of the Re:Mote Induction mailing list, this CDR should howver be now freely availale from the label (or so I was told). Clocking at an hour, this orange thing features 12 acts noticed by the compilers, probably while they were working on their magazine. Most of the acts are unknown to me, but some "names" are also part of the lot, for example Wilt, Delphium, Zipper Spy, and of course Mr Zaftig Research with a track by his Goose project.
This compilation could be broadly divided into two parts. The first one would be ambient and noisy, whereas the second one would have more beats and melodies, and would generally speaking be more accessible.
The whole thing starts with a clicky piece by Ck Dexter Haven, with some small blips on top of a dead radio channel. Object also goes toward minimalism, wherehas Goose brings the stretched and muffled ambient soundscapes he is known for (or should be known for). It is followed by a great-as-usual track by Wilt, combining windy atmospheres and some strange sounds that makes you feel like listening to a movie with your eyes closed. Before and after a relatively untypical and simple Ovum track play Source Research, a project that is new to me but whose two versions of "Mouth" present some very nice blurry and tweaked low frequencies. The Zipper Spy track, that combines the typical zipper sound with some "singing" is also quite nice, but not too surprising. Finally, Baradelan's dreamy track ends what is for me the first half of the compilation.
After a rather noisy intro, Geroyche unleashs the first real beats of the disc, with a nice rhythmic noise track. The beat is quite basic, but a high pitched melody brings a little extra to the track. It is followed by a great tribal track by Delphium, reminding me a lot of a noisy Quoit, very catchy and well done. The first track by Lars Pellarin, "Sysrq", is less noisy but features some very interesting electronics sounds and percussions. Jeye then offers an good and accurately titled "liquid" track of soft electronic sounds and beautiful keyboard lines. Finally, Lars Pellarin ends the disc with an experimental sounding piece mixing some Autechre-like pads with gritty breaks and sounds.
All in all, ":1" is a nice compilation that showcase good newcomers. It has highs and lows, but should be noticed for the very nice submissions by Wilt, Source Research, Delphium or Jeye.
>stefan/geluidsoverlast wrote:
Re:mote Core Records compilation
Re:mote Core Records 01
Released: end of 2001?
Running time: 60+ minutes (format: CD-R)
This is the first release of the newly Glasgow based Re:mote Core Records as you already might have noticed. Besides that I presume it was as well already clear that this is actually the label of the well known webmagazine Re:mote Induction which are also the gig-organisers of the In:duced Nights in Glasgow.
This compilation comes is a complete orange coloured jewelcase and mainly consists of rather unknown artists. I personally prefer when people actually follow the purpose of a compilation, instead of compiling all known bands just for the sake of exclusive tracks, this compilation rather compiles tracks of exclusive unknown bands, besides a few. Great!
The first to open this CD is CK Dexter Haven with "Exit ^ fault". All I know is that this artist played on one of the In:duced nights just recently, I believe he/she is from the UK. A deep droney humming background is completed with clicking, tsjirping and cutting sounds. It's all very minimal with detailed clear sounds. Additional waves of oscillating frequencies and minimalised cut/paste vocalsamples make the sound complete.
Object "Unified objects" as well starts very silent with short surfacing electro-acoustic buzzing sounds penetrating the silence. 2 minutes further not much has changed, a few additional object-sounds have come and gone and the buzzing has increased in length, loudness and frequency a bit. But then with a little more then a minute to go, an extra hum sound tries to break through the simple and rather boring character of this track. In short, minimal electro-acoustic sounds mixed with lots of silence.
Goose "Dream cycle" is one of the projects of US based artist Bret Lunceford if I recall well, it's for sure on his label Zaftig Research. Echoic monotone, light humming, ambient and electro-acoustic sounds, fill my living room with silent and rather minimal recordings of "objects" among which I mean to hear some sort of clicking of metal, like spoons. More to the end the monotonous dark atmosphere gives birth to louder outbursts of dull scraping ambient. The whole thing sound as spooky monotonous ambient, think that's a proper description for what I hear.
Wilt "Wormscratch" builds up quickly with just 1 constant looped wave of some sort of ambient sound fading back and forth, becoming louder and louder until samples are thrown into this short piece of music. I mainly hear kind of shuffling footsteps, then it sounds as if one is "tinkering" a cardboard package as in a box of matches, after that it seems someone is digging a grave (sand and spade) crunchy sand/stone sounds mixing with the metal blade of the spade-sound. Anyway, I think these sounds are just the result of cardboard or plastic resources, and if that would be the case, well then I'm surprised that all kind of other sounds, that I hear, are the result of these far more simple sound sources.
The 5th artist SouRce Research "Mouth" violently attacks your soundsystem with strange loud amplified "bubbling" object-noises, resulting in cut-off kind of dull beats, triggered and eventually forged in an a-rhythmic (if at all rhythmic) pattern, mixed with a whole lot of snipping and piercing crackling sounds as if your speakers are completely destroyed (well I hope they aren't after this track anyway). Towards the end a more convenient structure seems to form, in the last 14 second an extra drone rises up in the background. Strange, broken cuts and piercing sounds, are what this track is about, fairly special I might add.
Further now with Karl Midholm's project Ovum "Healthy ten", this starts quite active with a mixture of speeded up tsjirping high pitched frequency layers, a bit noisy and slightly disturbing. Additionally to this there's sort of a slow dull beating, shifting through this rather monotone composition. The only other comment I can give is that it lacks variety a bit. Unfortunately one of the least interesting in my opinion.
SouRce Research "Mouth" (reprise) starts with a dull bubbling pumping beat in the background, then it suddenly surfaces and I seem to hear a short looped drum-sample? Besides that the whole sound is pierced through with crackling detailed sounds. The bubbling has become a bit louder now and forms the main sound through which a strange minimal repetitive sawing "drum & bass" loop is mixed. Finally it all ends in a short collage of minimal experimentalism.
Zipper Spy ":velcrew" Hehe, as the name already suggests, this starts with detailed recordings of zippers being opened and closed while the rest of this composition is filled up with a bizarre chill repeating mellow beat. The zippers and this beat, surface in turns, each of the sounds comes and goes, becoming more disturbing each time they return. Suddenly a monotone heavy drone frequency takes over and this is mixed with something that sounds as someone singing, a sample I guess. It all forms a pretty funny and certainly bizarre sound. More towards the end the variety of background sounds has increased with more higher pitched ambient minimalism.
Baradelan "Reduced to radiowaves" (Wider spectrum remix). I expect this one to be my favourite and honestly it is one of my favourites. Baradelan, as should be known, masters the skills to create dark, layered capturing drone ambient. And this is what you get. A mixture of different layers penetrates the atmosphere, the waves move on slowly and silently, ranging from long metal-sounding textures, through which deep drone and monotone layers find their way to reach the unconsciousness mind of the listener. Excellent, but I can tell you there's much better work out there from Baradelan.
Geroyche "Roter himmel 5", cutting machinery noise loops, slown down, speeded up again, shifting into a short oscillating interval to then move on with an intense danceable, slight EBM/industrial influenced, fast stiff rhythmic beat pattern. The background is filled up with an atmospheric repeated keyboard tune, which later is combined with more ambient layered structures, as also some washing noise-ambient sounds. This is a well constructed track, full of variation, change and evolution in sound. I would place it somewhere in between the known rhythmic industrial Ant-Zen material mixed with slight traditional old school EBM influences, though that might not be the proper description for you to base your opinion on. Highly recommended, find out for yourself and then comment whether my description sucks or not, if you can do better, let me know.
Delphium "Bug fucked" takes of with a mixture of keyboards, drum & bass, bass-guitar (?), and slight experimental sounds. I find it to be rather simple and monotone, but that's maybe because I'm not at all into D&B. More towards the end some short (vocal?) effects seem to be mixed through the whole composition, but these are gone again before I just finished writing about this. Nah, not my cup of tea and if you ask me, a bit misplaced on this compilation.
Lars Pellarin "SysRq" quickly skwibbelish electronic sounds go over into some sort of heavy deep bass beat pattern that takes off pretty slow, plain and simple, but then it merges with all sorts of bizarre experimental modified electronica percussion, certainly a bit disturbing to even funny? The main sound is formed with melodic keyboard (?) tunes, thrown into a can, then shaken well. The result is sort of a glitchy experimental sound, strange, original and new to me.
Jeye "Viscous liquid reflecting" starts really GREAT! with slowly evolving waves of melodic / melancholic and ethereal ambient that remain present through he whole track. It does remind me of material from the Zero E.P. that I just recently reviewed. I'm not sure in which closet / genre of music to place Jeye, it's original and apart, compared to anything else I have so far come across with. Highly recommended!
Lars Pellarin "an of" is something rather special and different from the other track on this compilation. Starting with short cut-up loops, triggering clicks, lots of experimental hollow noises, light feedback and loud machinery bursts pasted together. A sort of a dull beat keeps the whole thing together. Far better then "SysRq". Much more structured in an a-structural way if you like. It definitely is more experimental as also very relax. Excellent track!
All in all, this is a strange compilation, focused on less obvious structures of music and compositions. But this definitely shows how much more complex and original electronic music can be compared to plain house or techno. Recommended to those who want to broaden their musical horizons a little bit, looking further then the standard dark-ambient-industrial-noise-_ an appreciation for certain measures of experimental orientated and electro acoustic music might be necessary though.
>frans de waard/vital weekly wrote:
A compilation from the underground world of electronica. Only a handfull of names are recognized by me (Zipper Spy, Ovum, Source
Research, Delphium) and the rest is new to me.
These are the people that play electronic music, inspired by techno or house music, but
present us a much more abstract, naive or noisy form.
Just a few can compete with the upperworld of techno (like the heavy playing of
Delphium), but the majority finds themselves safe with the lo-fi electronics or laptops.
Take for instance the piece by Jeye: washing
ambient synths, a simple rhythmbox and some old analogue synth to process the sound. Rather badly mixed but it has it charmm. And this
is the case with many of the tracks included here.
For me the best tracks were at the beginning of the CDR, where we find most of the
more experimental and abstract ones.
Others included here are CK Dexter Haven, Object, Goose, Wilt, Baradelan, Geroyche and Lars
Pellarin. It's a pity that there's not much more information available on these people.
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