[PV 041] Keith Fullerton Whitman - Live Generators (1) 2 x Cassette 2010

Keith Fullerton Whitman - Live Generators (1)
Label: Protracted View
Catalog#: PV 041
Format: 2 x Cassette, Limited Edition, c38 + c34
Country: Canada
Released: Jul 2010
Genre: Electronic
Style: Abstract, Experimental
Limited to 200 copies.

Tracklist:
A Generator 1.0 18:41
B Generator 1.1 17:41
C Generator 1.2 16:41
D Generator 1.3 15:41

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[BOLTVL 001] Yvat - Unfolded Vinyl 2010

Yvat - Unfolded
Label: Boltfish Recordings
Catalog#: BOLTVL001
Format: Vinyl, 12", 45 RPM, Blue
Country: UK
Released: 2010
Genre: Electronic
Style: Abstract

Tracklist:
A1 Blue Tusk 4:12
A2 Quaver 2:23
A3 Contrail 3:56
B1 Etcher 2:42
B2 Tide Out To Sea 4:29
B3 Alkyd 3:30

Unfolded is a very special six track release, presented on exquisitely designed and pressed blue 12” vinyl. Ten years since his first album and 25 released projects later, Yvat is searching for lasting integrity through his music. The core issue is now one of identity, and therefore the title Unfolded should be read literally: the six tracks unveil the artist’s individual sound and his own peculiar way of creating and understanding music. From one track to the next, he reveals what he is most passionate about: a synthesis of opposing tendencies, a lucid blending of melodic lines with fractured aggressive rhythms and angular textures. Unfolded is a mature work, built on the celebration of a decade of working in the field of sound design. With remarkable coherence, this project continues to unfold, gradually rewarding the listener with further surprises and small discoveries.

When you receive your vinyl copy of this release you will also get a special one-off code to download a FREE Digital copy from Bandcamp! *

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FACT mix 181: Pixel

FACT mix 181: Pixel


Pixel – real name Jon Egeskov – is a member of the esteemed Raster-Noton family, having released three albums on the label to date. He debuted in 2003 with The Display, following it with a collection of live studio recordings entitled Set Your Center Between Your Parts In Order To (2006). Pixel’s most recent offering is 2009′s The Drive, wherein he sets out to evoke an imaginary journey by car across the USA, via limber digital rhythm, the deep hiss and hum of guitar amplifiers, the churn and chatter of seemingly sentient micro-processors.
His mix for FACT includes four original Pixel tracks, with the rest of the tracklist made up largely of contributions from other Raster-Noton artists -  Alva Noto (Carsten Nicolai), Ryuichi Sakamoto, Cyclo (Nicolai & Ryoji Ikeda) and Frank Bretschneider, the latter with no less than six untitled pieces. There’s also room for ‘Twenty’ by Labradford, whose psychogeographic post-rock and ambient meanderings in the 1990s no doubt acted as a formative influence on the young Egeskov.
Pixel will be performing live at the Alpha-ville festival in London on September 17-18. He joins an international line-up of audio-visual innovators and up-and-coming talent, including Actress, Subeena, Bola, Scanner and The Boats. Find out more here.

Tracklist:
1. Pixel – Sinus
2. Pixel – +40° 11 35.63 -112° 52 31.90
3. Pixel – Both
4. Alva Noto – m08
5. Cyclo – C3
6. Pixel – Matrix
7. Ryuichi Sakamoto & Alva Noto – Duoon
8. Labraford – Twenty
9. Frank Bretschneider – Untitled
10. Frank Bretschneider – Untitled
11. Frank Bretschneider – Untitled
12. Frank Bretschneider – Untitled
13. Frank Bretschneider – Untitled
14. Frank Bretschneider – Untitled

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(MP 300) Various - Clicks & Cuts 5.0 - Paradigm Shift CD (Compilation) 2010

Various - Clicks & Cuts 5.0 - Paradigm Shift
Label: Mille Plateaux
Catalog#: MP 300
Format: CD, Compilation, Digisleeve
Country: Germany
Released: 07 May 2010
Genre: Electronic
Style: Abstract, Glitch, IDM, Experimental, Ambient, Minimal
Notes: CD edition contains 2 bonus "Evac" tracks not available in the regular digital edition.
Comes in a nice 6-sided digisleeve.

Tracklist:
1 Scattertape - Shelving A Tempered String (Intro) 1:00
2 Aoki Takamasa - RN4-09 (Short Version) 5:36
3 Wyatt Keusch - Object 02 (C&C Cut) 4:26
4 Loom - Isolex 03 4:10
5 Ametsub - Repeatedly (Video Edit) 4:41
6 Kiyo - Bear In. Warm-Noiz (C&C Fade) 3:32
7 Marow - e.coli 4:12
8 Manathol - BAKETO (C&C Cut) 4:18
9 Kabutogani - CXEMA 3:48
10 Nicolaus - Inner (C&C Fade) 5:28
11 Sifa Dias - Eitec Aa (C&C Fade) 3:14
12 Klive - Sweaty Psalms 4:22
13 Gultskra & Artikler - w 3:59
14 Yu Miyashita - Scrypt 3:43
15 Alinoe - Il (Outro) 1:24
16 Lodsb - Eve (CD Only Evac Track) 4:25
17 Rimacona - Message (CD Only Evac Track) 5:38

The influential electronic label MILLE PLATEAUX kickstarts it's newest chapter with it's flagship: A new edition of the legendary CLICKS & CUTS compilation series, that in fact named it's own genre. Volume 5.0 (subtitled "Paradigm Shift") features a totally new generation of young artists giving a 360 degree view on fresh glitch sounds: from Minimal Clicks to IDM-/Dub-ish tracks via Ambient and Sound Art to the 2 'Evac' tracks going to the Artcore and Organic extremes. Each song has it's own distinct character, and with a significantly higher amount in melodic and compository details than it's predecessors, this is probably the most musically substantial CLICKS & CUTS compilation ever.


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(PRE 029) Ous Mal - Nuojuva halava CD (Album) 2010

Ous Mal - Nuojuva halava
Label: Preservation
Catalog#: PRE029
Format: CD, Album
Country: Australia & New Zealand
Released: 25 May 2010
Genre: Electronic
Style: Experimental

Tracklist:
1 Marraskuu
2 Parveke
3 Tuulensuoja
4 Viima
5 Vaskiset Kielet
6 Kumiseva
7 Kotiin
8 Merilaulu
9 Ystava
10 Talviaamu
11 Aamubussi

Here's something very special indeed from the Preservation label: Nuojuva Halava is the debut album proper from Finnish artist Ous Mal, aka 22-year-old Helsinki resident, Olli Aarni, who recently appeared on Under The Spire with his Viime Talvi release. As with that outing, this album features a scratchy old sound palette, seemingly made up of several layers of dust, cobwebs and crackling atmospherics. The fustiness makes for a beautiful production technique, but the music itself is often incredibly light and ebullient. For all the lo-fi trappings encasing the record, you're seldom starved of something beautiful at the heart of the mix. For instance, on opener 'Marraskuu' there's a lovely swell of orchestral melody cutting through the sliced-up, heavily looped debris, and as Nuojuva Halava unfolds you'll hear Aarni putting to good use a combination of samples and instrumentation (including the indigenous Finnish string instrument, the kantele), conjuring a sonic playground that's loaded with fantastical imagery and faux-nostalgia. By the time 'Vaskiset Kielet' arrives you might be a tad surprised to hear a warm, low-end beat plodding alongside the track's patchwork of decaying melodies, but eroded away rhythms are buried throughout the album's sequence and as the label is keen to point out, this is a collection of of works that finds "common ground between the dusty tenor of old-school hip hop cassettes and the fog of deep ambience". A very fine album indeed.

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[Cotton Goods 001 SP, 002 SP, 003 SP] Sub Loam - Ohr CDr 2009

Sub Loam - Ohr
Label: Cotton Goods, Cotton Goods, Cotton Goods
Catalog#: 001 SP, 002 SP, 003 SP
Format: 3 x CDr, Mini, Single
Box Set
Country: UK
Released: 18 Jun 2009
Genre: Electronic
Style: Experimental, Ambient

Box Set containing three singles by Sub Loam. One track per CDr. Each CDr has a seperate catalogue number though they were released in this Box Set format only. Each CDr in a seperate hand made envelope fashioned from pages of old books. The whole thing packaged in a cardboard microfilm case, with a string tied archive strip around it.

Tracklist:
CD1 Ohr Part 1 Nettle Mix
CD2 Ohr Part 2 Overgrown Path
CD3 Ohr Part 3 Stones, Sunlight, Morning

When writing about releases on Craig Tattersall's lovingly handcrafted Cotton Goods label it's always a temptation to start going on about the packaging first, and this new triple disc set from the mysterious Sub Loam proves to be especially alluring in that department. You'll find the three 3" CDs collectively housed inside a sturdy microfilm box, with each one therein individually slotted into envelopes made from old books, embossed with the Cotton Goods Ltd stamp. And of course everything's hand-numbered, with just 100 copies in circulation. It's a lovely and outlandishly elaborate item, so let's hope we find that the music has been similarly laboured over once we've prized it from its housing. The first disc in the Ohr triptych ('Nettle Mix') initiates us into a world of flickering delays and tape reel manipulations - a billowing soundscape littered with analogue recording artifacts, Radiophonic effects sweeps and overloaded space echo. The vintage feel is perfectly in tune with the recovered, antique feel to the presentation, and it's carried over onto the next disc (titled 'Overgrown Path') which features fragments of grainy chords and hiss-saturated background noises. Once again, the piece is characterised by the warm repercussions of vintage echo - carving thunderclap sound effects into the background - but there's a more prominent, Basinski-esque melodic element here too. The final disc ('Stones, Sunlight, Morning') is inevitably suggestive of that great buzzword du jour, 'hauntology', offering shadows and reverberations of something that once was, rather than anything tangible. These evolving, ambient echo loops eventually give way to more discernible constituents, and the sound of the elements consumes the final few minutes: gusts of wind and watery field recordings draw the disc to a close, leaving you with the same sense of mystery and puzzlement you probably had when you entered into all this. The discs played in sequence make for a beautiful, tape-spun sound cycle, but as an alternative serving suggestion, you could probably fashion yourself a rather wonderful Zaireeka-style multichannel listening experience by rigging the discs to all play simultaneously. However you choose to digest it, Ohr is clearly a very special release in all departments, act fast if you want one as these babies just never last very long...

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[ZagZig 004] Ryoji Ikeda - Dataphonics (Album) CD 2010

Ryoji Ikeda - Dataphonics
Label: Dis Voir
Catalog#: 133938 ZagZig004
Format: CD, Album, Book
Country: France
Released: May 2010
Genre: Electronic
Style: Abstract, Minimal, Experimental

Notes: Book 64 pages with 62 illustrations in black & white + free Cd.

The sounds for this Cd was commissioned by the Atelier de Creation Radiophonique (ACR) de France Culture.: It was broadcasted monthly troughout the year 2006-07 and finaly remixed as a special version.

Tracklist:
1 Principle 6:00
2 Spectrum 6:00
3 Transmission 6:00
4 Transformation 6:00
5 Rhythmics 6:00
6 Automatic 6:00
7 Quantization 6:00
8 Harmonics 6:00
9 Counterpoint 6:00
10 Structure 6:00

Ryoji Ikeda is one of the world's most radical sound artist famed for his detailed and precise audio-visual work at the extremities of digital engineering, as well as an occasional collaborator with Carsten Nicolai aka Alva Noto. 'Dataphonics' is Ikeda's brand new book & CD exploring the relationship between the data of sound and the sound of data. It appears via the ZigZag series of book/CDs intended to create an editorial space for sound works by artists. The CD accompanying the book contains an edited sixty minute version of the series of 'Dataphonics' broadcasts commissioned by the Atelier de Création Radiophonique (ACR) de France Culture throughout the year 2006-07 and features an hour of utterly visceral and ultra precise physical digital processing using non-audio data as elemental source material and deploying frequencies at the periphery of human audition, sounds that as Ikeda explains, "the listener becomes aware of only upon their disappearance". The book attempts to explain the processes and methods behind the creation of these sounds through mathematical and graphical examinations of the fundamental binary reduction/representation of sound waveforms. It makes for another challenging yet beautiful addition to Ikeda's hugely impressive canon - and a startling, beautifully produced artefact in its own right. Highly recommended.

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