5/2/2023 0 Comments Phew bandcampI’ve no idea who 89.SYM is (I believe it’s a dude in New York) but this short release is enchanting and hypnotic. Kate Carr has done me a favour by listing the instruments used in the title of this work. Returning to Dissipatio, I can only guess at what was used in its creation. Kate Carr - breath, whistles, rubbing and dropping things and beads It’s almost like Dissipatio above, if it were refined and crafted into something with beats and rhythm, rather than the beautiful chaos that it is. Boomkat described it as being like “mid 90s Mo Wax x Chain Reaction”, which immediately grabbed my attention. I love a good tape but there is only so much space. I was really annoyed at first because I saw this on sale as a tape from Boomkat, albeit with a download included. Phone lines and machinery, banging and dragging, the sound of fire or broken tapes, drum kits and dial tones, feedback and drone. Steep Gloss is always good, and this collection from Tim Olive and Matt Atkins is properly clanky. It’s haunting, I might even say catchy, but definitely one to catch your attention. It builds slowly (as you can see in the waveform above) and continues to ebb and flow, drift and meander. It’s like several tracks in one, but with the same themes and melodies. Reckonwrong returns after some years without release with a truly baffling track. Five tracks, largely in the eight-minute range, with steel drums, ambient wash, swirling winds and classic 90s percussion, or just a single 40-minute “full satisfaction”. And it doesn’t get much dreamier than this. God, I love me some proper dreamy 90s house. The New Age Orchestra - Let’s Dream Together The lengthy ‘Woonsocket (Pastoral Theme)’ and ‘Dovewillowtail (Sunny Donegal Mix)’ are my favourites, the former sounding like a precursor to Lukid’s ‘USSR’, and the latter sounding like my nightmares.Ī 30-minute ode to a deaf cat. The music sounds timeless and current, with elaborate repeated phrases floating through channels like the album cover’s spaceman as he drifts through different worlds. The JWA has resurfaced more recordings from decades gone by, originally recorded in the artist’s bedroom and left forgotten for 30-odd years. Ominous repeated melodies, disembodied thrum, airy themes over clattering percussion, the range is varied yet coherent. The album brings together some “longtime APR artists and friends”, including Bandcloud favourites CHANTS, Maral, LOFT, Amazondotcom and Dane Law to name a few. I believe the title of this final compilation comes from Yu-Gi-Oh!, though I can’t work out what the card does. Nearly eight years on, the label, which has put out more than 30 releases in that time, is coming to a close. The first release from Astral Plane Recordings, Heterotopia, featured in Bandcloud #41 in late 2014. VA - Astraltopia (Astral Plane Recordings) What business has it, being May so soon? That just reminds me that it’s now 17 years since I bought this CD compilation.
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