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Mjr - 11-2010 [self release - 2010]

Mjr is a minimal, stripped or ambient HNW or static texturing project from the Indianapolis area of the USA. And “11-2010” is seemingly the first easily accessible and purchasable product by this project.

On offer here are two untitled tracks which come in at dead on the twenty minute mark. The first track is based around stripped jittering and slightly skipping static tones which unfold in a pretty much un-breakable form- it’s ok for the first two or three minutes but pretty soon my attention starts to wonder. You see there’s not really anything appealing, moorish or clever about the way the statics laid out… it just moves along in a rather bland and quite sterile manner- but maybe that’s the point!.

Track two has a lot more to offer and really makes this release worthwhile. This track is built around two intermeshing static patterns which are fed over each other in a very hypnotic, enclosing and futuristic manner.  It feels like your been slowly cocooned and surrounded  by  treads of pure static; you can either panic and get tense, or lay back and marvel at the interlocking stripped static textures that take in judders, jitters, slight skips and crackles. As the track goes on your unshaw if the 'wall'  is shifting, tightening or speeding up….or if it’s just the way the ‘wall’ is  pulling you in deeper and deeper to it’s stripped yet highly inescapable structure.

Following on from the minimal and stripped sounds inside the CDR comes in a clear jewel box case with no extra text or information. The CDR it’s self features a hazy and distant picture of a group of people on a beach, the projects name and the releases name.

So “11-2010” is very much a game of two half’s- the first half/track is a little bland and rather unappealing, but the second half/track is very rewarding, entrancing and appealing.

Rating: 3 out of 5Rating: 3 out of 5Rating: 3 out of 5Rating: 3 out of 5Rating: 3 out of 5

Roger Batty
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