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Purely computerized music is the focus of csero's pikolifter; a Commodore64 sound editing program was emulated on a PC and the six resulting tracks of bleeps, blips and buzzes could be the melody of a robot's dream...
A0-42 (wavT_start) features a scruffy rhythm beneath a fluttering sea of chaotic bloopiness, while
F0-33 takes a more-minimal, less-agressive approach, blitting and chiming spaciously. Stuttering static backs spiraling electron strands in 00-08.
Discs 3 and 4 come from disciples of Ambient Temple of the Imagination; Seofon delivers three pieces in immanent.
Churning rhythms and fluttering wisps of sound are imbued with upwardly rising currents in
Skyle accompanied by bass impulses. The track segues into
freemantic a billowing geyser of beatless sound seemingly as vast, dense and powerful as a cyclone.
thermal's Span bridges a short-long-short pattern with one-minute "ramps" of more-abstract sound leading onto (then off of) the "main span" (18:55) which is a freewheeling electro-music tour driven by a bouncy e-bass. Light, but very active, beats stir rippling waves and chiming tones on a pleasant little joyride with a few detours from the primary course.
dean santomieri takes his turn with crude rotation where he creates five surreal soundcollages; disjointedly scritchy nostalgia seeps from
"gram mo phone" albeit in wraithlike gusts. santomieri's actual spoken poetry (effectively delivered by julie oxendale) is laced into the fragmented time- and space-slipping backdrop of "ati noko". Assorted splinters of deconstructed sources are tossed into the twitching pile of "ears & whiskers" (2:25). Mixed media snippets make a twisting journey through the unknowable musique concréte realms of "peach skin canyon" (4:30).
eM twists soundwaves into the eight murky contortions of click pop (which is neither as clicky or poppy as the title may lead one to expect).
A fragmented little song "circle" mmmmmmm and abuts the slightly tuneful blips of "convoloptic". Softly buzzy, sputtering soundstreams pulse beneath "coded chaos" which reveals hushed singing woven into those now-warbling strands. Slurry "computer" voices melt together in the brief-but-memorable audio-hallucination of "vox attractor" (0:40).
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