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Written by Mark Weddle
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Sunday, 30 December 2001 |
Blimp are a four piece from Poland that practically hide guitar, bass
and drums within analogue synths, loops, samples, effects and rhythm
programming. The 40 minutes of music here is instrumental (save for a
muddled recitation of a James Joyce poem in one track) with well
tempered, basic bass/beats and very thick layers of back and foreground
texture and micro mechanical sounds. It's more of a mellow electronic
groove thing than a post rock groove thing, though it's really both
with a bit of spacey dub and krautrock mixed in, often reminding me of
Mouse on Mars and the solo work of Thomas Fehlmann of The Orb. "17"
offers up the most prominent bass guitar based groove, almost to the
point of Jah Wobble prominence. Everything is perfectly pleasant and
comes to an end far too quickly. My only other minor complaint - a few
unintentional clicks pop up here and there, which may be a problem with
the disc itself and not the music or mix.
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