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"MONO"-COMPILATION CD-R - 77 COPIES - (BADBEATZ
07) APRIL 2000 The german label "Badbeatz", dedicated to electronic music, noise, industrial sounds and all kinds of interesting musical experiments, has just released a very limited compilation CD-R, titled "Mono", that presents six young artists from England, Canada and Germany and their music and sounds. The compilation starts off with LDT, a DJ-collective from England, who begin their track with some weird plunderphonic stuff that evolves into a great droning sound before it finishes with plundered musical snippets again. Wow! Definitely a project you should keep in mind... Next track is by "Four flies on grey velvet" from Canada, which offers some great noisy tape-manipulations, which actually sound like collected guitar feedback madness. Well done! "VitalDigital" from Germany prefer to work with minimal rhythms and sounds. This could be called "Minimal Techno" - and if you want you can dance to it! That can't be said from the short piece by "F.E." from Germany, which starts off with some hectic keyboard chords, only to make you realize that the person behind "F.E." is trying to attack your ears with some high frequencies, coming up after one minute and getting louder and more intense with every second. Probably this piece makes you get up and run to your CD-player to stop the high frequencies... pure audio-terrorism! "Hyperdriver", from England again, prefer pure guitar noise - no brutal free-jazz -punk-style guitar noise like so many others -> they prefer to make their track sound more like a fuzzy and deranged year 2000 blues... Finally Germany's "Subton" - a still neglected talent - offers an excellent piece of dark and minimal electronic, which makes you want to listen to more "Subton" stuff. Then - you think that the CD-R has already been finished - suddenly after a few minutes of silence, some strange sounds appear out of your loudspeakers (or your headphones). First you aren't sure, if this comes from outside or if it's on the CD-R, but soon you'll notice that this is a "hidden track" - nearly twenty minutes of manipulated field-recordings, titled "Geräusche der Umwelt" ("Environmental Sounds"). These are approx. twenty minutes of strange sounds, which make it a really interesting listening experience. In total this is a well-done CD-R compilation you should invest in, as you'll not only get some interesting new acts you can discover, but you'll also help these acts as well as the label to reach a wider audience in obtaining this CD-R. The CD-R is limited to just 77 numbered copies and it comes in a very special handmade sleeve. So what are you waiting for? Get your copy soon, before all of the copies are gone... review: Jo Rets, April 2000 |