{"id":662,"date":"2007-07-25T21:35:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-25T20:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=662"},"modified":"2007-07-25T22:57:32","modified_gmt":"2007-07-25T21:57:32","slug":"ascoltare-beam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=662","title":{"rendered":"ascoltare &#8211; beam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content=\"text\/html; charset=iso-8859-1\"> <META content=\"MSHTML 6.00.6000.16481\" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE><\/STYLE> <\/HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>track listing : <EM>exo on ferrick\/semjase in  exclesis\/asket&#8217;s ship\/flatwoods\/sky fishing<\/EM><\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><\/FONT>&nbsp;<\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>been a while since the world has heard from the  electronic experimentalist <STRONG>ascoltare<\/STRONG>.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>in fact the last time involved a seriously strange  heavy duty 12&#8243; 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.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>thankfully this time around things are very  different.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>for this new basic black vinyl 5 track 12&#8243; (limited  to 250 copies i believe) is <STRONG>ascoltare<\/STRONG> revisiting the glory days  of old school techno. <\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>the music is, and i dread to say this word given  the current white heat blog scene around it, <EM>minimal.<\/EM>&nbsp;  <\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>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,&nbsp;fractured  digital noise, warped vocal cutups, with even a reggae dub aspect due to some of  the keyboard touches.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>i would even go so far as to say that this is as  conventional a record i have heard from the master of&nbsp;<EM>plunderphonics,  <\/EM>but this is all comparative of course !<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>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 <STRONG>eat static <\/STRONG>for now shall we !<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>instead, these 5 tracks (regrettably&nbsp;only  available on vinyl &#8211; 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 <STRONG>phuture  <\/STRONG>and<STRONG>&nbsp;sleezy d <\/STRONG>then this throwback to all things  dirty, analogue and sci-fi related will be a gift from the un-gods. <\/FONT><FONT  face=Arial size=2>oh &#8211; 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.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><EM>more detail<\/EM> : <A  href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/ascoltarebeam\">bye-space<\/A> &#8211; &#8211; <A  href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/tripelrecords\">tripel  records<\/A><\/FONT><\/DIV><\/BODY><\/HTML><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>track listing : exo on ferrick\/semjase in exclesis\/asket&#8217;s ship\/flatwoods\/sky fishing &nbsp; 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