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Title:  Drift Artist:  Evapori, Totstellen - Various Artists Label:  AIC Format:  2 X 3CDR Price:  € 11.50   Mp3 samples:   1

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The package of the double 3? CDR by GermanyÕs Totstellen and Evapori reminded me of the more daring packages of the cassette culture at itÕs height: a supermarket meat package with very grey packaging material that looks like rotten chopped meat. Otherwise not much information. Before this he/they had a CDR on Reduktive Musiken (see Vital Weekly 456) and despite the industrial name, this is not really industrial music of the louder kind. Again Totstellen uses field recordings and sound processings to create a dense and dark pattern of sound of slowly shifting and colliding sound material. No big surprise, but quite nice throughout the twenty-two minutes. Evapori from Hamburg is Oliver Peters, who also runs the AIC label. His own music is a rougher and rawer, but certainly nothing less than the likes of Meelkop, Chartier or Gunther. They are quiet, Evapori is a bit more raw, maybe a little less refined in his own processing of field recording and adding all sorts of additional sounds to the palette. Quite a bit here dwells on the borders of microsound, most certainly in the second piece, but Evapori carries enough of itÕs own to make things quite interesting. Well structured and thoughtfully played. On the same we find [-Hyph-], aka Nicolas Wiese, the other labelowner. The three pieces on this release were made as part of Ôone hour asÕ, the radio show by Ben Green. [-Hyph-] plays bass clarinet without mouth piece, breathing, various kitchen devices, disturbed synth signal, feedback, cello, piano strings, splintered glass on wet concrete, pneumatic brake of a freight train and some more. [-Hyph-] has put of all of this together on his computer and made quite an energetic movement of sound with all this by means of sound collage. Silence is hardly an option for him. His collages reminded me a bit of the good olÕ Brume work. Constant shifting the sounds backwards, forward, upside and reversed, with voices swirling in and out. Very much a work of musique concrete and electro-acoustics. Sometimes things stay a bit too much on one side of the affair, before moving on, but throughout itÕs a
very fine work. Good to see this released and not just roaming the radio waves. (Vital Weekly)

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