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High Skies (the new id of Gas) who just blows the cobwebs of t:me away with ease, in his track: Red Green Blue - photons of audio white light component's are accompanied by mellow beats, that pushes themselves eloquently and softly into your listening field.
this track was to feature on the unreleased Gas2 2298 album under the working title areel. Beatsystem and the track: Alabama - arresting you with the heat of audio midday sun; reworking old voices smoothly with new, into alternative considerations of a place that held an oppression of creed. last of all the well-known Em:t mover and shaker that's featured is... International Peoples Gang and the track: Fireworks - washes of fadeouts and intros, with lingering flute / pipe notes; featuring a strawberry girl lyric vocalised by parisienne chanteuse anne papiri. the sounds feel worn, comfortable, and welcoming. In all three tracks it is fair to say that t:me has not changed their advanced outlook; perhaps their skills, but what better way to move on. other artists that you may know, have each brought an extra outset to Em:t and each strong with it. Gregor Samsa (who is Andrew Wilson) Paralysis - a short piece using piano, guitar, trumpet, & voice. to evoke waxy immobility perhaps or just the state of being inert. Andy Hughes (from the Orb) I Can't Hear You - audio whirligigs and binds, rolling folds and Trails of well-kept music experiences. is selective hearing still an un-required tool? Chushen & Cugin (Chushen is Nelson Martin, Cugin is Bill Grasso) The Sutra - high pitched notes wrapped into tangles and knots, layered with drumbeats and bass that rupture heavens'. a meditation on love. Brannan Lane Desert Sunrise - lurking deepness that rises via the bass line, with radiation pulses of a consistent explosion. which all scatters vastness into mind. Richie Warburton 00 - montages of audio observations, focus... & keep your eye on the ball. Mia (who are Mark Bagguley & Tom Walsh) Savannah - announcing the current determined place of the human origin, to be reset once more as unknowable & indefinite. shuffling audio techniques, that are certainly not missing in action. Radium88 (a trio: Tim Twaites, Matthew Clare & Jema Davies) The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Space Traveller - gentle sonic rings and pulses. sparking the idea of isolation and containment whilst in the enormity of the universe. Press Information |
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One of the surprises of summer 2003 was the news that the UK em:t label, which folded back in 1998, was being relaunched. The label's releases broadly worked the ambient end of the techno spectrum overlapping with outre sonic experimentation and field recordings. All beautifully packaged after a zoological theme. Although ostensibly a new company, em:t continue where they left off with em:t 0003 (em:t 0003CD), described as a packaging concept and music 'designed to reward the careful listener'. The compilation shows their quality control is as stringent as ever. "Paralysis" by Gregor Samsa opens impressively with ghostly voices wafting through a structure sketched out by beginner's piano. International Peoples Gang, meanwhile, return to the label fresh from remixing Beth Orton. "Fireworks", however, is an atomised pop song menaced by unpredictable bleeps of rogue technology, before it ends with a layered concrete section and an English country garden ambience of uneasy tranquillity. But the standout "Alabama" by Beatsystem, who first recorded for the label in 1992. Over its loping beats, a rootsy vocal sample vies for space with waves of varispeed vocal babble - close, in fact, to the style Moby premiered on Play, only considerably more imaginative (MB) 2005. Soleilmoon |