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"LABORATORY SERIES VOLUME ONE"
Trawling in mostly sonic experimenters and improvisers from theManchester area, this CD-R compilation offers a partial window on thenoises being made at regular events such as Rotations andaLECTRO_eCOUSTIC throughout 2001.
The laboratory bubbles with the multiple musical personae of itscurator Dave Clarkson, drummer for the now defunct White Cube who endthe CD-R with an oddball ode to sexual shenanigans, singer Su Lisounding off like Eve Libertine of Crass nursing a wound. Dave Clarksonis also behind the sci-fi babble of Gelatine, the sinister drone ofIlluminati, the backwards techno of Midget Gems, the dirty factorygrind of Valis 33 and the mournful serenade of Monte Christo.
The RSI label throws up three disparate chunks of audioexperimentation. Disco Operating System float off 'Just East of Lyra,Northwest of Pegasus' with a new track that signals a noisier directionpossibly influenced by Birmingham's cut up noisician Magic City,opening with what sounds like a distorted organ heralding rapidpulsebeat degenerating into abstract dissonance. Magic City starts outwith some random squeaks before erupting in a typically noisy squall.There's also a dose of emotive melodic electronica culled from JJHoward's RSI CD-R 'Human Commodity Recordings'.
Then there's the Welsh industrialists of Fflint Central, Pendro andOleum. A Pendro drone opens the lab for experimentation with theorgasmic sighs of Debbie doing Dusseldorf in a chunky synth loop,whilst Oleum lights a 'Corpse Candle' with warped squelching beats andengine rumble whilst the church organist worries about his tuning andtries to convince the vicar to update the hymn book with '20 Jazz FunkGreats'. aLECTRO_eCOUSTIC instigator Daniel Weaver delivers a mulched dose ofsolo cello mooching, with weird bowed and processed noises flying offat tangents to a jovial plucked chugging centre. He also appears on amore frazzled, jagged and abstract short collaboration with electrictoy molestor Alex Impey.Black Curtain play slow guitar and country banjo picking in a 'MelodicaPlaypen' which nods to the likes of Papa M and Pullman. Go Go Ghidorasound like they've caged some hellbeast and miked up its rumblingstomach full of lesser demons.
The CD-R can be bought direct from www.planetsounds.co.uk and a secondvolume with a completely different line up is imminent.
The laboratory bubbles with the multiple musical personae of itscurator Dave Clarkson, drummer for the now defunct White Cube who endthe CD-R with an oddball ode to sexual shenanigans, singer Su Lisounding off like Eve Libertine of Crass nursing a wound. Dave Clarksonis also behind the sci-fi babble of Gelatine, the sinister drone ofIlluminati, the backwards techno of Midget Gems, the dirty factorygrind of Valis 33 and the mournful serenade of Monte Christo.
The RSI label throws up three disparate chunks of audioexperimentation. Disco Operating System float off 'Just East of Lyra,Northwest of Pegasus' with a new track that signals a noisier directionpossibly influenced by Birmingham's cut up noisician Magic City,opening with what sounds like a distorted organ heralding rapidpulsebeat degenerating into abstract dissonance. Magic City starts outwith some random squeaks before erupting in a typically noisy squall.There's also a dose of emotive melodic electronica culled from JJHoward's RSI CD-R 'Human Commodity Recordings'.
Then there's the Welsh industrialists of Fflint Central, Pendro andOleum. A Pendro drone opens the lab for experimentation with theorgasmic sighs of Debbie doing Dusseldorf in a chunky synth loop,whilst Oleum lights a 'Corpse Candle' with warped squelching beats andengine rumble whilst the church organist worries about his tuning andtries to convince the vicar to update the hymn book with '20 Jazz FunkGreats'. aLECTRO_eCOUSTIC instigator Daniel Weaver delivers a mulched dose ofsolo cello mooching, with weird bowed and processed noises flying offat tangents to a jovial plucked chugging centre. He also appears on amore frazzled, jagged and abstract short collaboration with electrictoy molestor Alex Impey.Black Curtain play slow guitar and country banjo picking in a 'MelodicaPlaypen' which nods to the likes of Papa M and Pullman. Go Go Ghidorasound like they've caged some hellbeast and miked up its rumblingstomach full of lesser demons.
The CD-R can be bought direct from www.planetsounds.co.uk and a secondvolume with a completely different line up is imminent.
- Daniel Weaver and Alex Impey - Chump
- Illuminati - Pstblue1
- Magic City - Pinnochio
