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Let's hope that we aren't the only shop smart
enough to stock this well done plethora of sonic delights
DMG
Downtown Music Gallery
Excellent collection of weird electronic music from
both well known and lesser known figures like Conrad Schnitzler, Merzbow,
Asmus Teichtens, David Lee Myers/Thomas Dimuzio, F/i, Rapoon, Colin Potter,
Endgame and Mystery Hearsay. Complied by our good pal Hadley Kahn from
Escapade as an obvious labor of love. The legendary German sonic pioneer
Conrad Schnitzler opens with a marching sequencer beat, a number of percussion
samples and subtle layers of electronic squiggles. Mystery Hearsay is/are
from Memphis and sound like German synth music from the seventies with
a repeating central figure and layers of suspenseful slowly shifting samples.
Rapoon is much more calm and hovers in the distance. Colin Potter (has
to be and is British) works with eerie samples and slowly shifting textures.
Asmus Tietchens is another established sonic wiz from Germany and here
does a fascinating job of altering slow moving mutant samples. Perennial
favorite noise-master and over-recorded icon Merzbow provides shimmering
electronic feedback drones that just slightly warped. David Lee Myers
(formerly a/k/a Arcane Device) and Thomas Dimuzio (duo w/ Chris Cutler)
blend their more restrained sonic fragments nicely, like submerging in
a submarine. F/I from Milwaukee has also been around for a long while
and does a great job of providing some scary mutating waves. Endgame aptly
gets the final and longest cut, slowly unfolding one layer at a time,
stretching out sounds and ghostly voices like an ominous fog enveloping
us all. Let's hope that we aren't the only shop smart enough to stock
this well done plethora of sonic delights. Yo Jimmy J. from FE, you best
wake up & smell the coffee!? Bruce Gallanter
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