Daughter Of The Industrial Revolution - Path Of Least Resistance (Ono, 2008)

1 Little Did You Know About The Coming Storm 7:20
2 Opening Night 19-12-07 6:40
3 A Concise History Of The Last 50 Years Of Anger And Betrayal 7:28

Something of a departure from the Ono label's series of avant-garde mixtapes, this release features original material recorded by label founder Michael Holland with Miles Whittaker of MLZ and Modern Love notoriety. With a little further assistance from a number of friends, these two have carved out three freeform electronic narratives, calling upon a veritable laboratory of vintage instruments, including such rare treats as the ETI Vocoder, the Waldorf 4-Pole and Crumar Multiman. The subsequent compositions shift from the drone complexities offered by the first piece, overflowing with rich synth string textures and obscure signal twitches to a darker, more primitive configuration on the second, which dabbles in industrial textures and metallic, early-electronic timbres, coated in bleak, filtered echo. Finally, a third piece brings the aesthetic right up to date, taking on a kind of organic techno persona not entirely dissimilar to some of Vadislav Delay's more experimental moments. There's a clear dub influence, but none of this sounds like some rigid, sequenced production, instead there's an organic, naturally evolving quality to the rhythmic pulsations on show, keeping the music well within the bounds of an experimental mindset. A host of collaborators are credited with having got involved with the recordings, although there's no too-many-cooks issues on show here; this music comes across as supremely disciplined and strictly realised, with a keen, exploratory ear navigating the project. Excellent.
Boomkat

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Daughter Of The Industrial Revolution - Variable Resistance (Parts 001-003) (Cotton Goods, 2009)

Variable Resistance, (Part 1)
CD1.1 Legislation For The Nation 6:47
CD1.2 Transistor Blues 5:57
CD1.3 Urban Myth 4:19
Variable Resistance, (Part 2)
CD2.1 Shape 4 5:25
CD2.2 Photon Shopping 7:54
Variable Resistance, (Part 3)
CD3.1 Nutrient Flush 11:29
CD3.2 The Folding Of Paper 8:15

The dark arts of Miles Whittaker (aka MLZ, and part of the Demdike Stare, Pendle Coven and several other covert projects) have been casting their spell over listeners for the better half of this decade. His peerless record collection and associated vinyl addiction have largely informed his ouevre, roving from the blackest doom metal to glacial nordic electronics, layered drones, shuffled House, Berlin dub and Detroit techniques. His uber-dark new project Daughter Of The Industrial Revolution is the place where he can indulge those passions in solo mode over three 3" CDs for the bespoke Cotton Goods label. We've only got a slight clue what the title alludes to, but we can tell you that 'Legislation For The Nation' opens the set with a hazy piece of ambience recalling the overloaded-but-subdued ferric tones of Kevin Drumm, while 'Transistor Blues' sounds like the residue of an analogue MLZ session, where the machines have been left to their own devices, creating spectral impressions of Berlin dub. 'Shape 4' follows with a grey slate-and-sandstone toned slab of doomy atmospherics, while the acid reflux of 'Photon Shopping' coats the ears in an abstracted 303 residue. The lengthy 'Nutrient Flush' is the album's centrepiece, paying tribute to the isolationist bleeps of Mika Vainio with potent tones patiently given time to seep through the system to achieve the required results. As usual the amazingly packaged discs are housed in bespoke handmade sleeves inside customised microfilm boxes that have been individually numbered. Totally amazing music - blink and you'll miss out forever.
Boomkat

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