(Catalogue no. 13331)
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Title Description:
After 4 years there is a new full lenght CD-release by Radboud Mens. The title is "Pulse". His last solo CD was called "~Sine" and was released in 2000. Before that he did one titled "Cl;ck"
Between then and now he released a 5 track CD with Jaap Blonk called "Bek" and a CD called "Quality Hotel" which was a collaboration between him, Janek Schaeffer, Stephan Matthieu and Chris Sattinger (Timeblind) which was recorded during the Mutek festival in Montreal and released on the Mutek label.
Radboud Mens is a sound-artist from Amsterdam whose work is rooted in and continues to develop within the broadest definition of contemporary music. While his interest in the physical effects of sound on the body gave him a preference for noise in his early work, his later music has contributed to the development of minimal-techno, glitch and experimental dub. Mens uses electronic technology to render audible microscopic sound processes. His sound-world is in a constant state of spatial and temporal flux, and incorporates found sound.
Radboud Mens' performances for 2002 include the Mutek Festival (MontrŽal), Dot Nu, Garage Festival, Stubnitz, Steim, Argos Festival, Gallery De Appel, November Music, Geraeuschwelten IV and Times Up.
Radboud Mens' performances for 2003 include Club Transmediale in Berlin, the International Film Festival Rotterdam, the Audio.NL label showcase at Podewil in Berlin, Earational 2003 and Kunst Aus Strom.
Pulse was created complety in the computer; all sounds were generated and processed in the computer. The DSP function used to process the sounds is called "convolution" which uses "sound X" as a filter, to filter "sound Y" and visa versa.
Although all sounds are digitaly generated, they all have an organic feel to them and the whole CD has a sferic quality to it.
The first track was pre-released by Club Transmediale and given away for free with Wire magazine.
Vital Review:
Following his debut on Staalplaat from a couple of years back, here is the
second, now really full length CD by Radboud Mens. Once known as Hyware,
also record boss for ERS Records aswell as the CDR imprint Hond In De Goot,
Mens works under his own name since a couple of years. He is clever in
keeping in mind on which format his music is released. His three 12"s for
Audio.NL are minimal techno stompers of an utter reduced techno beat, but
highly danceable. The previous CD 'Sine' and this 'Pulse' take the
experience of dance music into the realms of much more subdued music.
Rhythms do play a role (of course, I'd say, if you call your CD 'Pulse'),
but they are embedded in sizzling, cracking and foremost deep bass
structures. Mens is somebody for whom technology hardly has a secret and he
uses all the possibilities sound have. Playing this music softly is one
listening to maybe a quarter of it. The low end is there on a very present
level, presumming you want to open the volume. I strongely suggest to do so.
Each of the six pieces is a lengthy excursion which will take you through a
variety of moods and tonal shifts. Maybe it would have been better to cut
some of these pieces into smaller pieces, since some of the changes are so
radical and going into something entirely different, it's almost like a new
song. It not necessarily adds to the composition of the whole track.
Otherwise: an excellent CD and to top it off, the jewel case is printed with
concentric circles and the CD itself too. It sure adds to the hallucinating
character of the music. (FdW)
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