Artist : Miguel A. Ruiz
Album : Grosor
Year : 2005
Genre : Avantgarde
Source : CD
Label : Monochrome Vision
Catalog : MV03
Rls.Date : Mar/2006
Bitrate : VBRkbps
Size : 69 MB
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This is the new, remastered version of classic material recorded back in
80s, next to postindustrial aesthetics priority in electronic music.
Rigorous and austere, ascetic but dynamic, this music rearranges everyday
being into mindchallenging imagination, reserving the leading parts for
the habitual processes and domestic objects.
From the deep underground of Spanish industrial music, it comes to be
rediscovered after 15 years.
Miguel Angel Ruiz, from Madrid, is one of the main reference names of the
Spanish experimental electronic music during the 80s, together with
artists such as Esplendor Geometrico, Macromassa, Francisco Lopez, Avant
Dernieres Pensees, Comando Bruno, Diseno Corbusier, etc. Times, by the
way, that should be recovered for all the good stuff that was recorded
during those years by the artists mentioned before and by many others. And
times when, without any minimal recording infrastructure as regards
labels, record companies and distribution, only saved by the arousal of
small companies such as Discos Esplendor Geometrico or Linea Alternativa,
many of the artists resorted to the autoedition using cassettes and
creating labels such as I.E.P., Necronomicon, Proceso Uvegraf, Auxilio De
Cientos, Clonaciones Petunio.
This was precisely the case of Miguel A. Ruiz, who created in 1986 his own
tape label called Toracic Tapes. Since then, through this and other
domestic, European and American labels, he has published an extensive
catalogue of recordings using different monikers depending on each
project: Orfeon Gagarin (the most famous), Ventral Metaphor, Funeral
Souvenir, besides the many works edited under his own name or as Exhaustor
in the late 90s.
M.A. Ruiz started to work on first pieces at his home studio in 1982,
focused on the abstract and pseudocosmic electronic music with his new
Korg MS-20. In 1986 he inaugurates the catalogue of Toracic Tapes with the
legendary first cassette of Orfeon Gagarin, an eclectic combination that
goes from environmental sounds to industrial noise, including cut-up
exercises and some ethnic contrast. From there, Miguel A. Ruiz's
production is non-stop, he realised between 1986 and 1992 more than a
dozen cassette recordings either signing as Orfeon Gagarin or with his
real name. Works such as "KEDR" (1987), "Batan Bruits" (1987), "La Noche
del Anhidrido" (1987), "El Ni±o Carburador" (1989), "Biscuit Circuit"
(1991) or "Vasarely" (1991) are considered today worthy of worship by the
Spanish electronic experimentation panorama.
In 1991 a tape sent to Asmus Tietchens finally gave birth to his first
magnificent LP "Encuentros en la Tercera Edad", published by Hamburger
Musikgesellschaft. Already in 1994 appears Orfeon Gagarin's compilation CD
"Contestacion Capilar" and two years later with the name Exhaustor, he
presents a new sonorous facet orientated towards the most rhythmic and
ruthless techno, whose presentation was "Coaxial" CD.
Miguel A. Ruiz has also collaborated actively with Luis Mesa (three tapes
between 1986 and 1989 under the name Tecnica Material), with Siegmar
Fricke (Efficient Refineries, with several works published from 1995 to
2003), Francisco Lopez, Dieter Mauson, etc. Next to Hector Hernandez he
published in 1989 the tape "Han llegado los robots", born as a hypothetic
soundtrack and whose source of reference is the book by Rolf Strehl "Die
Roboter sind unter uns" from the end of the 50s. This album was remastered
and re-released on CD in 2005 by Miguel's own new label Batan Bruits.
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1. Humedad Y Enfermedad 3:39
2. Testicular Prawn 3:50
3. Post-Mortem Risotto 5:27
4. Alveolar Madness 3:05
5. Batan Bruits I (excerpt) 2:57
6. Sin Apenas Cloud 2:13
7. Lucarpian Clud 5:13
8. XX Weltjugendnacht 3:16
9. Brain Velocity 4:19
10. Botulismus Terrier 5:22
11. Sinister Life 1:53
12. Ecumenical Worm 2:05
13. Purulent Horses 4:33
14. Profilaxis II 1:59
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