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Title:  4 Pieces Artist:  Roel Meelkop; Toy Biazrre - Various Artists Label:  Kaon Format:  CD Price:  € 13.00   Mp3 samples:   1   2

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The sound of rain water at the beginning of this album offers a deceptive introduction to this deft and stimulating collection of what, at first, sound like field recordings, but within time reveal something entirely more outlandish. After several minutes this cozy veneer is stripped away to reveal humming drones and threads of tenderly modulating sound morphing into near audible rumble zones framed by long periods of virtual silence. However, don't get too relaxed - signs that a virus has contamined the programme are betrayed by sudden, glitchy outbursts of absurdly loud noise that can have you sitting bolt upright in your chair wondering whether that whistling sound you can hear afterwards belongs to the record ot it's simply tinnitus generator from shell shock. The loudest interruptions feature micro seconds edits of nasty, crunchy, crackly samples beloved of powerbooksworms everywhere - and now quite commonplace ever since the Mego label artists popularised the style in the mid - neneties. The extreme dynamics encountered on this recording are certainly challenging for thr listener, but trace a ligne through its elegant structure and one is aware of a gracefully symmetry and a strong narrative od transformation ; the watery sounds at its inception are almost mirrored by their fuzzy, filtered, frequency-shifted, digital cousins at conclusion. Another strange chapter in the story of Glitch.
Kev Hopper in Resonance Vol.8

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