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[Dec. 7th, 2008|11:05 am] |
The Sight Below - Glider
There’s a beating heart buried in the wintry landscape of Glider, a warm 4/4 pulse that enervates the album’s echoing, looped drones and pulls the listener swiftly through the snow. By pinning barely-there electronic beats to his wisps of guitar melody, the Seattle-based producer turns ambient music into a hybrid strain of breathtakingly intimate, small-scale dance music. |
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| sedative |
[Sep. 2nd, 2008|01:28 pm] |
GAS - Nah und Fern (2008)
Wolfgang Voigt’s Gas project lasted for four albums (Gas, Zauberberg, Königsforst, Pop), all released on Mille Plateaux between 1996 and 2000 and all long out of print. Nah und Fern gathers them together as a four CD box set.
The Gas sound has been accurately described as "heroin house," akin to hearing a techno set from the other side of a canyon, or through a series of walls; the music consists of heavily altered samples from classical and popular music distended and placed under propulsive 4/4 beats or washes of ambience, which seems like it might be boring, but turns out to be hypnotic and hauntingly beautiful. |
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