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£11.99 (+postage) best spend!! two 14 minutes tracks 1. track - they recorded a rat 2. there's some nice music parts there i'd say totaly of music about 5 minutes...wtf are they turning into? but then again, i might start liking this or something. |
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totaly = total |
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btw, the title of the record is what they were actually doing - relocating a rat that got into their appartment... 1st song title is rat...therefore there're only rat sounds recorded...but there's lots of silence in between...prolly cuz the rat was far from the microphone or something 2nd song title is titled rat relocation...and there are again sounds of the rat, but here's also added the sound of the cage and the car i think...and then prolly some music they were playing while driving or something... bizzare. |
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zounds good |
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no, not really... |
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is it fast? |
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you mean in bpm's? |
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sure. |
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Drew Daniel and MC Schmidt's two albums last year both represented departures from their trademark audio strategies. The Civil War saw the duo incorporating medieval and American folk elements into a series of pastoral compositions while The Soft Pink Truth's Do You Party? was Drew Daniel's unique take on leftfield digital disco and bottom-heavy electro. Rat Relocation Program is a return of sorts to the old conceptual bag of tricks; a brief experimental EP that utilizes the microtonal sampling techniques familiar from Matmos' antebellum days. Slightly less academic than the "amplified neural activity of a crayfish" stuff the duo is known for, the sounds on this release were drawn from recordings of a rat humanely captured in the couple's San Francisco apartment. This description immediately recalls "For Felix (And All the Rats)," a track off of 2001's A Chance to Cut is a Chance to Cure that was constructed from the bowed and plucked ribcage of their deceased pet rat. Because this is volume six in the Locust's Met Life series of "field recordings and ingenious sound responses," it consists of two tracks: the unaltered recording of the rat protesting its incarceration, and Matmos' digitally processed musical response. I doubt anyone would want to listen to the fourteen minutes of "Rat" more than once, consisting as it does entirely of piercing rodent shrieks and the sound of tiny claws trying to breach the metal bars of its cage, with long silences in between. "Rat Relocation" is a different animal entirely, a longform audio narrative that preserves the poor creature's squawking, but answers each shrill cry with a measured electronic response ranging from sudden attacks of pummeling drum n' bass, to psychedelic funk excursions, to minutely detailed DSP fractures that sprinkle the stereo channels with fractal debris. The track feels strangely narrative amid its abstractions, not dissimilar to some of Nurse With Wound's more mercurial sidelong tracks. A clear empathy is created between the musi |
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i like pummeling d'n'b, but that just reflects my emotion right now... as music always will. |
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no, it's just rat screaming...appart from those couple of minutes there's no music. |
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let's not forget about their collab effort with Wobbly and People Like Us... which was their best album from last year... (and very creative and different and whatnot... and if you liked the books you might want to check it out, yo) |
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It's part of the location sound series, Met Life. |
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IMO-i think there should be like a chat irc channel for XLT's, or maybe there is... and i'm not 7332 enough to be a part of it. :D this is WiL McKay signing off, to Jungle tonight it is... PEACE GUYS :] |
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laytah! |
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there's a room aphextwin.nu on slsk... ok, bye bye then. |
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samples: 1. 2. the musical part sounds nice! but yeah for £11.99 it's a bit expensive... |
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yeah music is definitely nice...the silence inbetween is what makes it unlistenable :( |
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talking about matmos... does anyone know what they say in "lipostudio . . . and so on" ? |
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i had another listen to this today, and well, i listened to that 2nd track 10 times already...it's excellent! |
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they can come up with some of the best sounds recorded ever...they're excellent and if everything goes as planned im going to see them in less then a month :) |
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