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cDr|m's
.:: a klangwerk release ..................................................::.
artist :: ocsid
release :: opening sweep
year :: 2001
genre :: electronic
label :: ash international
catalogue :: ash 5.7
website :: www.ashinternational.com
ripper :: C05C4
date :: 08-nov-2001
quality :: 192kbps/44,1khz
source :: compact disc
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01 opening sweep 14:55
playtime :: 01h 14m 55s
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it begins with a siren, searching, probing, surrounded by the
clattering of electronic noise. a radio's voice (or perhaps its
feedback) attempts to intervene. static: interference. the
atmosphere builds: a piano, a scream. the beats are subtle,
fragmented, elusive and out of time. words fade in and out of
focus. 'i began to lose control,' says a voice, drowning.
what then is this opening sweep? a searchlight? technology: the
all-seeing eye? removing the barricades, brushing away all that's
gone before?
and so it continues: growth and decay. 'just want to get on the
outside.' cut up distorted beats. ('you've overstepped the mark.')
drones and radio. the slowly building, battling rhythms, echoes
and noises. and then, finally, it stops.
opening sweep is proof again that lewis fights on the extremes of
music with his partners in crime. unlike the rather drab and
uninteresting in between, this time we aren't given short, cold
glimpses, rather the whole story. and this time it works.
haussewolff, lewis, huhta and pfaff take us on an unsettling, yet
mesmerising 75-minute journey: a single piece of many leanings: a
long opening sweep, yet it passes so quickly you'll wonder if it
was ever there.
much of the music we hear these days makes a claim to be the
soundtrack for a post-everything generation. opening sweep is the
closest we have to a post-apocalyptic one
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greetings :: sb, qdp, sour, dps, rac, dh, sfe, hbz, tr, igr and mgc
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