From Pietro Sent Wed, Oct 27th 1999, 23:37
From Pietro Sent Wed, Oct 27th 1999, 23:37
Another one from Freeform! This time on Sub Rosa, check out the news brought to you by Dutch East India. I hope you appreciate my cut and paste manoeuvre's! : ) Pietro. FREEFORM=20 Green Park=20 SR149 (cd) / SRV149 (limited edition LP vinyl)=20 File under: incredibly strange groovy electronica Freeform is the extremely free and open minded doppelganger from Simon=20 Pyke, the prolific English musician. Sampled by Howie B and getting credits= =20 for it!; appearing everywhere the action is: Skam, Warp, Worm Interface,=20 Language (on Electric Kingdom as Nudge), Law and Auder, Chocolate=20 Industries (beside Funkstorung, Autechre, Bisk, etc.) Freeform is a 'non-linear' electronician, experimenting and investigating=20 every aspect of electronic music, as should be! For his new album under the= =20 Sub Rosa banner, Freeform is playing with the world of acoustic sources...= =20 Creating a toy box ready to be opened for fun and pleasure, forget about=20 Pandora's box.=20 Action! Exoticism! Weird things from outer space! Simon Pyke AKA Freeform=20 is guiding, whoever listens to this strange and amazingly beautiful album,= =20 to unknown countries. "Green Park" is filled with the sound of a gamelan=20 ensemble facing the gateway to King Kong's lair, with the astonishing sound= =20 from futuristic samba anthems, and sometimes with neo-expressionist=20 lullabies close to the Residents. An incredible soundtrack for a movie to=20 create while listening -eyes shut- to this album, the source of inspiration= =20 for a Roger Corman James Bond-like featuring exotic dancers abducted by=20 pink and purple aliens while having psychedelic dreams under a snow storm=20 in Bali. This time there will be a rumble in the quiet electronic village,= =20 and nobody to save this Island Earth, at last! Looking back to Freeform's=20 already thick discography, one might say that "Green Park" is once again a= =20 magical neologism, a habit that Simon Pyke will surely not abandon that= soon. If you thought you knew Freeform have a walk in this Green Park and be sure= =20 things might change a little bit!=20 -- MATI:K=20 Mati:k=20 SR162 (cd) / SRV162 (lp)=20 File under: bangin' melodic electronica After the concrete experimentalism from Bisk, and the unique and the=20 introspective hip-hop from Multiphonic Ensemble, taste without any=20 restriction (no side-effect detected) the electronic melodies from Mati:k=20 (aka Masanobu Yanagida); you won't believe this guy is a newcomer! Following the albums from Bisk, Multiphonic Ensemble and Rom=3DPari, here is= =20 the latest Sub Rosa Japanese sensation: Mati:k. For his first album,=20 Masanobu Yanagida chose to explore a very personal approach to the world=20 of electro-oriented music: crushed and distorted beats mixed with an=20 accurate sense of melodies placed in an open field. Far from the Japanese hectic archetype, Mati:k is the perfect remedy to=20 avoid the claustrophobic aspects of electro. Be ready to face a world full= =20 of contradictory sensations, constantly mutating through its intensity and= =20 straight electronic orientation, far from the usual 'human machines don't=20 think or feel attitude'. As a Wishmaster, Mati:k will provide the necessary= =20 energy when you are down, and the quietness deserved to face the stress,=20 but don't expect him to show you the 'way' to follow; listen and you will=20 find the answers. "For his first album, Mati:k, offers a true delight for LFO, Boom Boom=20 Satellites or Ken Ishii fans! An album filled with lots of influences,=20 integrated and reinterpreted in order to reach an highly personnal and=20 unique universe full of tracks ready to be mixed in a DJ set, beside=20 classics like LFO's "Tied Up", Ishii's "Extra"... far from the usual hectic= =20 or "kitschy" japanese clich=E9, electro but not radicaly techno, this opus= is=20 ready to face dancefloor's purists as well as the @ home "chill-out"=20 listening envies!!!!!" ___________________________________________ p i e t r o d a s a c c o a u d i o - n i m b u s 9745 lynngrove cr, windsor, ontario, n8r 1b8, canada http://www.rain.org/~audio/grooves/ grooves experimental electronics music mag