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| | | dekorder (germany) #dekorder 54 lp keith fullerton whitman / alien radio “101105 b/w text adventures” long playing record - keith fullerton whitman - 101105
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| june 2011 release ; fourth in the “split series” of live synthesizer pieces, featuring a fairly manic rising even / odd-harmonic ripper (recorded last year at public assembly in brooklyn during one of the “bunker” nights on a bill with geoff mullen & robert “lichens” lowe) backed with a stellar set of modular jams from aosuke / datashock’s ulf schütte under his alien radio guise ...
... the typically miracle-oriented d&m cut does an outstanding job of allowing for the re-creation of the bunker’s bass bin brown-out in your domicile (if you can’t hear anything for the first few minutes you need new speakers !!!) ; a modal phase-lock sawtooth canon is sent through a slowly-opening diode ladder that, pausing only temporarily to vibrate a smaller & smaller set of un-bolted-down appointments in public assembly’s bar-space, climbs through the spectral strata until a pair of upper & lower-octave clones swarm in & complete the equation ... i can only say that i was going for a “power electronics” cross-breed of heldon & tom cameron (i may have actually succeeded ; time will tell) ; the straight-meter throughout my only concession to the (albeit, extremely open-minded) dance-oriented crowd ...
... on the flip, ulf really nails down a quintet of hi-fi buchla-inspired pieces ; all vactrol bongos & slyly fm’ed sweeps that’s a perfect simulacrum of cecil leuter’s library-music work ... the whole thing’s housed in a honey of a trompe-l’oeil sleeve (it’s not die-cut ; it’s just an illusion) that deals a perfect visual analogue to the variably fried sonics enclosed within ... |
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keith fullerton whitman / alien radio
s/t
lp
we are stoked and honoured to release this deutsch-amerikanische meeting of two meisters of the modular electronic music system (originally invented by don buchla in 1963 for the likes of morton subotnick, ramon sender, terry riley et al at the san francisco tape music center). both are presenting very distinct approaches displaying the vast possibilities of the machine yet maintaining similar klang aesthetics (and maximum quality).
kfw is a renowned master of the modular, especially in live situations. "101105" is whitman captured at his most symphonic. recorded last year at one of the semi-monthly "the bunker" parties in brooklyn opening for members of ectomorph he sent the audience (all high on lsd) straight into sawtooth arpeggio heaven. "101105" is a condensed edit of these recordings, cut on 45rpm for maximum fidelity.
kfw has released records on a myriad of labels, most notably on kranky and planet µ (under his hrvatski pseudonym). last year's (vinyl-only) album "disingenuity b/w disingenuousness" on pan made it into many year-end top 10 lists, including the wire and boomkat. this year whitman has been commissioned a residency at grm studios to work on a piece for françois bayle's original 80-channel acousmonium!
alien radio is one of many aliases of northern germany's ulf schütte, a (part-time) member of datashock, black to comm, aosuke, phantom horse, etc. and founder of the tape tektoniks cassette label. his recent modular system explorations showcase a more basic, sketchy and song-based approach, reminding of jan jelinek's ursula bogner recordings and having been compared to the likes of conny planck, delia derbyshire and dick raaijmakers. his debut release was a split 7" on the belgian kraak label with köhn, ducktails and peaking lights. |
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