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Title:  Split Artist:  Nautical Almanac, Vertonen Various Artists Label:  Crippled Intellect Productions/ C.I.P. Format:  12" Price:  € 8.90   Mp3 samples: none

Title Description:
The tag-team matchup for which you've been yearning is now ready. nautical's side carefully documents an army of cats in ice skates crashing through a recycling center. How carefully those felines climb the mountainous pile of aluminum cans before fate sends them slipping down, down, down into glassware and truck springs. Vertonen's side sputters, lurches, and drones until reaching an inevitable hallelujah to 60s female vocalists; the pleasure is akin to that reached when an incandescent strobe light is aimed at your eyes while you are restrained on a decrepit merry-go-round. Co-released by C.I.P. and SNSE in an edition of 501 with hand-screened covers (read: no two alike), this will be a lovely addition to your vinyl collection.
A split LP by two, by now, veterans of underground music. Nautical Alamanac has a side full of really fucked up electronica and even more fucked up musique concrete. It seems like they use analog tape recorders and about every sound it played in a different speed than any of the other sound that is used at the same time. Slowed down and sped up tape mayhem of analogue synths versus raw abuse of acoustic sounds. On the b-side there is Vertonen, CIP labelboss Blake Edwards' solo project. He has a couple of releases and much to my surprise more than before, he returns to a more raw and noisy sound, especially in say the first half of the side. A rhythmic noise and feedback make up this sound, before moving over into more droney material towards the end and a sample of piano playing ends the piece. Despite these totally different tracks, this works however quite well and is one of the best Vertonen pieces I heard so far. The cover is a silk-screen thing, which definitely give this a true eighties feel.--Frans de Waard, Vital Weekly

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