travis bird “two tidal states” c34 cassette

• high, never reached
  
  
• low, evaporated

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lltd191: travis bird “two tidal states” c34 dense reduction's travis bird veers off course and into space with his first solo effort, "two tidal states." bird cracks out his ms2000 to send up this homage to radigue and other forms of synthetic expression. sparse bleeps and blops open the tape, gently guiding you through the rabbit hole. as he rumbles his way through the sub-sonic basement, you're greeted on the other side with the promise of skull-boring oscillations. solid, methodic drones coalesce into a mountain of sonic debris acting like an artificial monument to the cosmos. edition of 75, chrome tapes.

dense reduction “fictive agriculture” c42 cassette

• theoretical township
  
  
• a prelude to shade

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ltd#153: dense reduction “fictive agriculture” c42 travis bird and evan lindorff-ellery caught my attention straight away on their first trio of releases on the label they run together, notice recordings. “fictive agriculture” finds them spewing new organic sonar trails through hazy concrete forests. this is music that requires repeated listens to fully digest all the layers. things start off minimal and almost-melodic before bursting into a blown-out, churning mess. things go back & forth, covered in tape hiss and full of tonal warmth. it’s like unsuspectingly tuning into lost radio transmissions from the past half-century, sending out maydays from a distant planet. the flipside opens things up a bit with some harmonic sand castles from the start. eventually the tide rolls in and smashes the whole thing into bits, but the cleansing is all well and good because bleak, dissonant electronic triumph emerges from the ashes. it coalesces into a feedback labyrinth, unsafe for those with delicate ears. edition of 75, pro-dubbed.