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2002 |
Perilous 596 For years Atom Heart has been pumping out release after release for a multitude of labels. Best known for his early 90s experimental techno projects and then his much more recent forays into digital jazz with Burnt Freidmann as Flanger and his two covers projects – LB’s Pop Artificielle, and Senor Coconut’s latin Kraftwerk renditions, Atom Heart has well over 100 albums to his name. Although 2000/2001 was filled with touring after the success of Senor Coconut, his Santiago-based label Rather Interesting has continued to bear fruit. The latest release and the first for 2002 is his second project under the guise of the Roger Tubesound Ensemble. Titled Plays Just Notes, the latest Roger Tubesound goes deeper into the jazz micro-sampling explored by Flanger. Rather than the softer cocktail jazz of Flanger, this alternates between trad-piano and noisy free assemblages of jazz fragments. It’s a great release full of snippets of sound cut together in ways that form, as a whole, the most amazing polyrhythms. Highly recommended. Another amusingly named label is the German-based Shitkatapult. Having put out several slabs of vinyl crossing from noise to some less abrasive IDM moments, they release a new seven track mini album from Apparat called Tttrial & Eror (sp). Posed somewhere between min-90s Autechre and more current hip hop oriented DSP cutups – Prefuse73 etc – Apparat’s release is pretty harsh and noisy but settles into some nicely odd grooves which make it worth a listen. Shitkatapult have some teeshirts around also if you want to sport their gear. Last week I mentioned the new selection of Anticon titles coming soon. The first has touched down - a three track EP featuring a Deep Puddle Dynamics track produced by John Herndon of Tortoise, the Pitty Party People with the sublimely simple guitar sample and typical Jel beat featured on the Funky Precedent II compilation, and most impressively a total reconstruction of what may have at one time resembled We Ain’t Fessin’ from last year’s Gigasingle. The We Ain’t Fessin remix cuts across styles and sounds just as you settle into a groove but at the same time holds together as a killer cut. Also on a cut up tip, but totally unrelated to Anticon is the final release of the long awaited Osymyso experiment Intro Introspection. Sounding like the entire DJ Z-Trip & DJ P Uneasy Listening mix compressed into 10 minutes, Osymyso edits together the intros of 101 well known pop hits cutting them up to make the Sex Pistols talk back to Aqua’s Barbie Girl and snippets of The Cure’s Love Cats, INXS, Guns & Roses . . . It’s a brilliant and startlingly coherent cut up and one that is almost overwhelming in a one listen take – track after track pile on top of each other, beat mixed, cut, and segued until the entire 10 minutes teeters on the edge of a groove. Hunt it down. On the Frigid tip, Frigid is proud to host esteemed music writer and experimenter David Toop in mid April. Keep an eye out for details . . . . in the interim its Telemetry Orchestra and Nerve Agent in a big double header on the 24th and then Port Macquarie’s infamous Neural on the 31st. Yellow Peril (www.snarl.org)  Goto
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