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With each artist showcasing a unique palette of sonic experimentation, vivid colour and shape beam through the bulk of each track and a slouch towards low fidelity binds the tracks together.
Almost a year in the making and certainly worth the wait, this cassette is packed with perfectly compiled and refreshingly unique tracks from the minute the tape is loaded in, all the way until the reels stop turning.
The music is best listened to whilst watching the intoxicatingly hallucinogenic visuals alongside, but the label itself have done very well to picture the music and turn it into words, so here we go:
"Upfront is Wanda Group laying an unsteady foundation with the blown out and
oozing downer OVERR AREA. Over his shoulder drags the primordial cut n paste
assemblage of EMV and DTCPU clustering together and falling to bits next to the
bolstering of Huerco S' claustrophilic 3000AB before the play-it-cool dysphoria
of Sagat's Sigh washes over the lot and falls back. Moving to the back we find
Bantam Lions just sitting-off in a corner, dead laid back, with his warm,
colourful and moderately experimental, off-trend house music and peculiar
rhythms, yearning for simpler times. Microburst serves up gritty layers of found
sound, dotted synthetics and lush ukelele that come together and sprawl out
under a steady thud for UKED. Halp's aptly named Caves opens up a cavernous
decaying recess of fragmented beats and synths dripping with digital froth that
refuses to form and floats off into the virtual biospheric echo of Dynooo's
Ravenz. Just when it feels like the end Stefan Blomeier's Hoping You'll Come
Back chimes in all entropic and full of false promise, sounding like a theme
tune to a self-help infomercial playing out into an empty room."
On the visual front tailoring closely to each track we have a psychotropic
slurry of warped VHS, cheap early digital FX, found footage, video feedback and
post Windows-Media-Player abstractions conjured and woven together by artist
Ryan Lumley, who has recently crafted equally illusory visions for Babe Terror
(Phantasy) and Chill Mega Chill. Ryan said of the process: "These tracks for me
all have this gloomy mental interiority to them. They gave me a chance to sink
deep into these uncharted visual spaces where I could really experiment with
abstracted atmosphere and texture."
Seriously good first release and brilliant accompanying video from the Cleaning Tapes Label.
Don't miss out.
Each tape contains 'Cleaning Tapes' Sticker and the URL to obtain the visual art, made exclusively for this release.
TRACKLIST:
Wanda Group - Overr Area
EMV - It's Almost Over
DTCPU - Hehee
Huerco S. - 3001AB
Sagat - Sigh
Bantam Lions - Carousel
Microburst - Uked
Halp - Caves
Dynoo - Ravenz
Stefan Blomeier - Hoping You Will Come Back
Wanda Group - Overr Area
Bantam Lions - Carousel
Stefan Blomeier - Hoping You Will Come Back
Sagat - Sigh