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Constipated Monkey Smegma
...Presents...
Thomas Dimuzio - Slew
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│ RiPPER.: Team CMS DATE RiPPED..: 03-09-2005 │
│ LAbEL..: Gench DATE RELEaSEd: 00-00-2004 │
│ ENCOdER: LAME RELEaSE SiZE.: 97,6 MB │
│ BiTrAtE: VBR kbps TRACkS.......: 14 │
│ MOdE...: Joint-Stereo SoURCe.......: CDDA │
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│ A compilation of ambient electronica by Dimuzio from │
│ 1990-2004. Some dark, freaky shit... │
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│ Pitchforkmedia's review: │
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│ Thomas Dimuzio │
│ Slew │
│ [ReR; 2004] │
│ Rating: 8.3 │
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│ Attending a Thomas Dimuzio performance is like lying │
│ underneath a web of freeway bridges with your eyes closed, │
│ blocking out all visuals except the brief daggers of light │
│ that flicker with each passing car. There is a sense of │
│ probable dread-- metal, wooden or cigarette debris from │
│ the vehicles could fly off and injure you-- but also one │
│ of hypnotized calm, thanks to the amplified hum of │
│ Michelin and Goodyear against greased concrete. Dimuzio, a │
│ San Francisco electro-noise composer, seemingly replicates │
│ this experience with massive, body-vibrating drones │
│ punctuated by abrupt, skreeing hits of white noise. His │
│ improvised performances-- usually performed with guitar │
│ feedback and short-wave radio files processed with a │
│ laptop and CDJ player-- explore the gray area between │
│ tranquility and disarray, and they can draw your │
│ imagination into a wilderness it will refuse to leave, │
│ even when your nerves are shot by so many conflicting │
│ emotions. │
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│ Slew compiles the veteran's 14 years' worth of compilation │
│ tracks, which range between hallucinatory dronescapes and │
│ jolted short-wave experiments. The album is a sequel to │
│ Dimuzio's fine 2002 compilation, Mono::Poly, which │
│ features collaborations with notable noiseniks like Chris │
│ Cutler, Atau Tanaka, and Fred Frith-- plus his document of │
│ DJ QBert taking musical brown acid. Like any Dimuzio │
│ record, Slew is filled with tracks that demand full │
│ attention-- even during their quietest moments, instances │
│ which tend to gently shimmer to a scalding boil. │
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│ "Never Steven" opens Slew, and sets its mood. A remix of │
│ Dr. Nerve's "44 Nerve Events", the track is jumpstarted by │
│ a psycho-traumatic guitar rummaging through junk metal │
│ percussion and cricket-chirp microtones that kick in like │
│ a state of numb and blissful physical shock. │
│ "Radiotraces", Dimuzio's remix of avant-cellist Tom Cora, │
│ disrupts that peace with emotionally perplexed string │
│ melodies that seem to be stranded in the middle of the │
│ sea. │
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│ The rest of Slew never releases that tension. On "Usher │
│ Substart"-- a suitable tune for a compilation titled │
│ Soundtrack for the End of the World-- Dimuzio concocts a │
│ ringing and crescendo-rising drone from an electric guitar │
│ and a clarinet that resembles a field recording of an │
│ industrial neighborhood slowly melting in a thermonuclear │
│ firestorm. "Hinge Map Ridge" and "Zero Tolerance" also nod │
│ off to a bell-like drone, but in a more rhythmic and │
│ meditative light. "4 Poles" brilliantly unleashes │
│ fragmented, baby grand piano that skitters between stereo │
│ channels while the humidity soaks the walls with a soft, │
│ greenhouse din created from nothing more than feedback. │
│ "Untitled", which uncannily recreates a sweatshop │
│ atmosphere out of feedback and metallic noises that mimic │
│ a dozen sewing machines' tick-tacking needles jammed with │
│ ripped hair and caked dust. And then there's "Turnkey │
│ (Onionhouse)", which dances in the acid-rainwashed streets │
│ with scrambled short-wave vocals and DSP'd beats that drag │
│ their bleeding feet. │
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│ Folks who consider drone music to be monotonous or │
│ pharmaceutically bastardized should obviously keep their │
│ distance from Slew. But Dimuzio's work doesn't require any │
│ postmodern conceptual disclaimer that must be read to │
│ understand any of his music-- it is to be felt. Whatever │
│ your tastes may be, please consider his musique concrete │
│ zinger "Yard". Here, he gold-pans away the grime of an air │
│ conditioner drone and discovers a looped piece of │
│ gibberish from what the liner notes attribute to an Elvis │
│ impersonator in a parade. What sounds like Ben Ali │
│ go-carts then circle around and mutates into lawn │
│ sprinklers. So alien. │
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│ │ # │ Track Name │ Time │ │
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│ │ 01 │ Never Steven │ 05:45 │ │
│ │ 02 │ Radiotraces │ 05:18 │ │
│ │ 03 │ Usher Substart │ 04:21 │ │
│ │ 04 │ 4 Poles │ 04:00 │ │
│ │ 05 │ Zosz │ 07:12 │ │
│ │ 06 │ Lightswitch │ 12:40 │ │
│ │ 07 │ Untitled (Dimuzio + Needle) │ 02:00 │ │
│ │ 08 │ Yard │ 02:49 │ │
│ │ 09 │ Hinge Map Ridge │ 07:12 │ │
│ │ 10 │ Zero Tolerance │ 05:18 │ │
│ │ 11 │ Monaural │ 03:10 │ │
│ │ 12 │ Turnkey (Onionhouse) │ 01:00 │ │
│ │ 13 │ Dont Shop My Skulls │ 00:25 │ │
│ │ 14 │ M375 │ 03:59 │ │
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│ │ │ Total │ 65:09 min │
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