From cognition Sent Mon, Oct 18th 1999, 15:30
From cognition Sent Mon, Oct 18th 1999, 15:30
kent: yep, the soul center release (cd or 2 X ep vinyl) is by thomas brinkmann. andrew duke Kent williams wrote: > This was labeled by the record store guy "Thomas Brinkmann" but on the > whole this CD is pretty mysterious. > > "Soul Center*" is a division of W.v.B. > > Is all the labeling on the CD. No actual production credits given... > > This CD is a collection of brinkmann/brinkmann-esque perpetual motion > tracks. Everything is anchored by a 120bpm 4 to floor kick, but the > method here is to build a deconstructed version of funk music from > short samples of 70's funk records. > > I'm a sucker for this sort of thing -- I love a lot of Thomas Brinkmann > because he seems to have taken a very dry, intellectual analysis of techno > and minimalism and stretched it to it's absurd logical conclusion. Like > someone's comment that Kraftwerk are "so stiff they're funky," the tracks > here use a combination of endless repetition alongside slow buildups > and breakdowns to build sneaky subliminal grooves. > > The use of samples from old records changes the character of this music > from the normal Brinkmann stuff, which is based on a hermetically sealed > set of abstract machine sounds. Repeated endlessly, the gospel hum of > "Honey" (Sweet Honey in the Rock, maybe?) detaches from it's original > context and becomes an abstract chunk of sound. The vinyl surface noise > through repetition becomes a gentle sandpapery internal rhythm. > > All in all a very listenable collection of cool tracks, highly recommended. > > kent williams -- xxxx@xxxxxx.xxx -- Cognition/Andrew Duke's In The Mix mailto:xxxxxxxxx@xxxxxx.xx http://techno.ca/cognition 1096 Queen St #123 Halifax NS Canada B3H 2R9