Curd Duca "Elevator 3" Mille Plateaux mp 84 2000 (39:13)
Car (:09)
Faith One (1:55)
Quiet Nights Intro (:44)
Quiet Nights (1:46)
Mid A4 (:31)
Stim (:50)
Fl Peak (:39)
Plasma (:28)
Macintosh Suite (:20)
Digital Basics (:10)
Geister (:06)
Laura (:16)
Rev (:17)
Slip & Slide (:38)
Love B3 (:34)
Lalo (:06)
Scream (:31)
Dark Perc (:42)
Tristan (2:14)
Sounds In The Night (:30)
Evie Peak (:12)
Fire (:19)
Earth (:16)
Lo (:20)
Mid (:26)
Hi (:35)
Rec 4 (:51)
Giant
Swing (:41)
Japan
(:27)
Schweb (:28)
Bliss (1:34)
Manc
(1:47)
Syte (1:24)
Gunshot (1:54)
Schwirr (:41)
Uranus (1:09)
Click & Roll (1:11)
Misty (1:02)
Metal (:44)
Dorf (:34)
Nave (:35)
Alpine Bells (:40)
Walzer (1:43)
Serge B1 (:24)
Tubbies (:21)
Soul (:50)
Midnight
(2:01)
M2 (2:15)
This is the 4th album by Vienna based artist Curd Duca
for electronic label Mille Plateaux, 3rd in the "Elevator" series of 'digitalanalog
mood music' and my personal first. The 48 titled tracks range from
6 seconds to a little over 2 minutes for a grand total of under 40 minutes.
The album samples an interesting variety of sources such as easy listening
swing and jazz records (elevator music), atmospheres and found sounds which
he then proccesses and/or adds subtle electronic accompaniments to.
The more musically oriented samples are generally messed about with and
given new environments while the less musically oriented samples become
music through Duca's ability to make them sound appealing and piece them
all together. It's not all that much unlike something V/VM would
do except that most of this is much more subtle and seems more serious.
Munich vocalist Carin
Feldschmid also adds hauntingly beautiful and sultry
tones to 5 tracks. The result is similar to that of an old film score
and is surprisingly cohesive considering the amount of tracks and diversity
of sounds. And that is where Duca's talent really lies. He's
able to maintain a level of interest and range of moods throughout with
evocative sounds in short doses. Random play also seems to be just
as effective and lets me extend the total playing time to however long
I desire. "Elevator 3" is curiously relaxing and mysteriously entertaining,
soothing 'background' music for more than just vertical journeys ...
Where did I get this cd? - mail order via Riouxs Records.