s w e e t b e a t s
august.10.2000 - #225
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artist : Pan-American
album : 360 business-360 bypass
year : 2000
label : Kranky
genre : Lo-Fi / Ambient
quality : 192k HQ True Stereo
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01 Steel Stars 10:40
02 Code 6:37
03 Double Rail 11:28
04 Coastal 5:22
05 K. Luminate 9:26
06 Both ends Fixed 11:24
6 tracks | 54 mins | 75 mb
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After playing in the heavy experimental trio Labradford during the æ90s,
singer/vocalist Mark Nelson turned his sights towards a slower and
simpler experimental sound with his solo project Pan╖American. On his
eponymous 1998 debut record and 2000Æs 360 Business/360 Bypass, Nelson
creates brilliantly minimal compositions of hypnotic, ambient drift that
slither dangerously around the edges of your consciousness. Hot velvet
night rhythms move slow like a snaky two-lane road through the jungle at
night. On either side lie odd moonlit musical landmarks: muted hard bop
cornet flourishes by Chicago underground jazz legend Rob Mazurek,
funereal vocals by LowÆs Mimi Parker and Alan Sparhawk, lonesome
after-hours piano, cool accents of acoustic guitar and pedal steel,
sci-fi soundtrack bleeps and squiggles. The mood is exotic, but you
wonÆt be a safe, comfortable tourist in the tropical, unfamiliar
landscape Pan╖American inhabits. It may be slow and ambient, but it
isnÆt quite chill-out music; thereÆs always a hint of the unknown and
unpredictable, the dark and seedy, the life that unfolds in the shadows
just beyond your sight.
These two tracks come from 360 Business/360 Bypass. "Code," featuring an
ethereal, whispery duet between Parker and Sparhawk, is a stunning,
constantly shifting ocean of hot and cold textures. "Both Ends Fixed"
swells and sighs in an undulating wave of sound built from a deep
subterranean bass, lulling acid jazz organ chords, and MazurekÆs muted
trumpet skittering and skating across the surface of things.
--epitonic.com
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