track listing : exo on ferrick/semjase in exclesis/asket’s ship/flatwoods/sky fishing
been a while since the world has heard from the electronic experimentalist ascoltare.
in fact the last time involved a seriously strange heavy duty 12″ split single on which various tv chefs were cutup and dissected to the sounds of unsettling ambience. while the record looked great, and was a fascinating concept, i cant deny that its not a record i visit that regularly.
thankfully this time around things are very different.
for this new basic black vinyl 5 track 12″ (limited to 250 copies i believe) is ascoltare revisiting the glory days of old school techno.
the music is, and i dread to say this word given the current white heat blog scene around it, minimal.
the perfectly structured beats are slight, with subsonic bass lines hidden away, but in a measured manner to make the walls move in all the right directions, over which are various layers of synths, fractured digital noise, warped vocal cutups, with even a reggae dub aspect due to some of the keyboard touches.
i would even go so far as to say that this is as conventional a record i have heard from the master of plunderphonics, but this is all comparative of course !
from the various use of dialogue, and cover imagery, there seems to be a concept based upon aliens and flying saucers, but in the world of detroit ambient techno, this is never a bad thing, as to the two parallel world often collide to excellent effect, though lets try and forget about eat static for now shall we !
instead, these 5 tracks (regrettably only available on vinyl – as i would love to have this in pure digital form !) are very very worthy of your interest, especially if you have hidden in your archives old acid house records by such folks as phuture and sleezy d then this throwback to all things dirty, analogue and sci-fi related will be a gift from the un-gods. oh – and if you want more of this, (and i seriously recommend you should!), in a more portable hi-quality mp3 form, hang a left over to the special bye-space page for 3 extra tracks that complete the abduction experience.
more detail : bye-space – – tripel records