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"HiGH ▀ iNTELLiGeNCE tRoLLS"
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a r t i s t : Jason Lescalleet
t i t l e : Electronic Music
d a t e : 2003
l a b e l : RRR Records 001
g e n r e : Other
r l s. d a t e : August/2004
t r a c k s : 04
b i t r a t e : 192kbps
s i z e : 44,4 MB
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"Fine, fine LP of Lescalleet's work, here solo on multiple
ancient reel-to-reel machines. Much decay and lo-frequency
murk, the best of all possible worlds. Those unfamiliar with
Mr. Lescalleet's modus, please do investigate further
herein..." - Keith Fullerton Whitman
"Jason Lescalleet is best known for collaborations with
nmperign (Greg Kelley and Bhob Rainey) and Thomas Ankersmit.
'Electronic Music' finds Lescalleet working in his "standard"
environment, running short loops of tape between several
ancient recorders, working up a fairly dense sound matrix and
then augmenting those sounds electronically on the fly.
'Morphology' begins with isolated scratches that eventually
become engulfed in deep rumbles, sounding like a thunderstorm
raining pellets of static. 'Litmus Tape' is more of a midrange
roar, as though one is hearing passing jets through ten feet of
concrete. Like much of Lescalleet's best work, it has a density
that allows the listener to return time and time again with the
surety of hearing new elements on each occasion.
'Accidental-Oriental' begins innocently and softly before
suddenly leaping into a kind of metallic wash, another sort of
roar that brings to mind ball bearings rolling in steel basins,
but muted to remove the treble. It builds to a
speaker-endangering climax right at the end that leads directly
into yet another inferno, the concluding 'Beautiful Whore.' The
tone shifts to something darker here, the taped burblings
taking on the character of threatening noises emerging from
fissures in the walls of a lightless path. It finally explodes
into shards of its constituent elements, closing the album with
an unsettling entropic feel." - RRR Records
(Ripper's note: This record does have a lot of crackle and tape
hiss! This is how it sounds on the vinyl. As you can hear in
the more quiet bits on "Morphology," the hiss and crackle fades
out with the music.)
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01-Morphology [05:07]
02-Litmus Tape [09:06]
03-Accidental - Oriental [07:50]
04-Beautiful Whore [10:16]
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32:19 min
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