Search for   wildcard searchword search With search mode ANDOR in allband specialsreviewsarticlesmp3 section(s) And sort the results by BandnameAlbumtitle/Articletitle/SongDate show articles written by All authors Niels van Rongen Andreas Oelke Sander Hordijk Jacob Avlund Justin Faase Aldo Quispel Dan Felch François Monti Jeff Jacobus David Bauwens Roger Batty Patrick Toepoel John Pusieski Duncan Simpson Erwin Michelfelder N.S. Endebo Nicholas Szczepanik Delirious Insomniac manuel pereira Russell Cuzner Sven Klippel Serdar Yegulalp Josh Landry Lawrence J. Patti David Bourgoin Viktorya Kaufholz Andy Ortmann Various Justin Marc Lloyd Martin P James DC Todd Robinson Nicola Vinciguerra Bill Too Ross Baker Richard T Williams Paul Casey Hal Harmon Dave Biddulph Michael Cunningham Jean-Paul Garnier Tyler L. Julien Skrobek Cory Strand Adam Skyes Darren Charles James Shearman Sergey Pakhomov Johan Strömvall Hammarstedt Lob Instagon Jennifer Wallis Jan Warnke Damien De Coene A. Cooley Manuel Armida-Honner Julien Skrobek Karl Grümpe Colin Lang Alex McLean Cavan Gilbey Sarah Gregory    Review archive:  # a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z  Exhaust - Enregistreur [Constellation Records - 2002] Constellation Records is one of the most consistently impressive labels around. Whether it’s with grand releases such as Godspeed You Black Emperor!’s latest or with intimate affairs such as Frankie Sparo’s live EP, a certain intangible quality has always been present. Exhaust is a bass, drum & tape trio (with some bass clarinet making an appearance sporadically thanks to bassist Gordon) and Enregistreur is their first release since their 1998 self-titled album (released on vinyl and 2 years later on CD). The press release states that it is a “downtempo album of concrete/punk experimentation that gestures towards various currents in contemporary electronic music”. I think that’s a fair general description, but it should also be noted that Exhaust’s music is quite ominous and dark. The bass seems to be played using a volume pedal to eliminate most of the note attack; this, combined with the brooding, cello-like playing and the quantity of “organic” electronic noises and tape manipulations gives the album a paranoid, almost claustrophobic aura. As good as this all sound on paper and as excellent as those musicians are, the actual music didn’t quite affect me as much as I had first hoped. I admit that it did suffer the comparison with the new Hangedup (from the same label, a mind-blowing disc – But that’s another review) and it had to fight for its place in my playlist against many other recent albums, but even on its own I feel that there’s a little something missing. It does succeed on the ambience level – this could be the soundtrack to a very depraved movie – but the really good moments (such as the the 4:00 break in Voiceboxed) are too few and far in between and many tracks take quite a while to get going: this makes active listening a little tedious. I’ll put this album in my “late night ambience” pile. Exhaust - Enregistreur Constellation Records is one of the most consistently impressive labels around. Whether it’s with grand releases such as Godspeed You Black Emperor!’s latest... 240424   Koobaatoo Asparagus - Onna-musha 240424   Magda - And Suddenly, Just L... 230424   Andrea Taeggi - Nattdett 230424   Seedpeople - SeedPeople(Blu Ray) 220424   Shiver - Shiver Meets Matthew... 220424   Elegant Beast - Elegant Beast... 190424   Zachary James Watkins - Affir... 180424   Ulvtharm - 7 Uthras 180424   The Bad Shepherd - The Bad Sh... 180424   Impulse - Impulse( Blu Ray) The Music of Clay Ruby & Burial H... Over the last couple of decades Wisconsin native, Clay Ruby has been creating some of the world’s finest dark electronic music under the Burial Hex mon... 280324   The Music of Clay Ruby & Buri... 290224   Sutcliffe No More - Normal Ev... 100124   Occlusion - The Operation Is... 181223   Best Of 2023 - Music, Sound &... 051223   Powerhouse Films - Of Magic, ... 181023   IO - Of Sound, Of Art, Of Exp... 210923   Lucky Cerruti - Of Not so Fri... 290823   The Residents - The Trouble W... 110723   Yotzeret Sheydim Interview - ... 250523   TenHornedBeast - Into The Dee...

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