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.
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