Hydrophonic - Slotek (c) 1999 WordSound Recordings
Artist....: Hydrophonic
Album.....: Slotek
Type......: Album
Source....: CDDA
Tracks....: 14
Genre.....: Avantgarde
Label.....: WordSound Recordings
Catalogue#: WSCD031
Encoder...: LAME 3.97
Quality...: VBR kbps / 44.1KHz / Joint-Stereo
URL.......: http://www.discogs.com/release/99097
Tracklist:
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01 The Plunge 00:32
02 One 03:28
03 Submission (To Allah) 04:35
04 Bring The Love 06:16
05 Dank 05:59
06 New Years Revolution 05:21
07 Electromagnetic 05:29
08 Blood Simple 05:21
09 Stormy Weather 04:57
10 Origin Of Species 04:42
11 Get Into This 05:41
12 Heady Stuff 05:31
13 Always Livin 05:22
14 Bonus Track 01:06
Total:70,2 MB / 64:20 min
Release Notes:
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Hydrophonic
(Wordsound)
reviewed in issue #181, 5/3/99
The album cover is utterly correct. Slotek plays music which sounds
like it has been filtered underwater to some sort of marine community.
The beats and bass lines are almost impossibly thick. In fact, nothing
has a sharp edge. Slow, pulsating and utterly unavoidable.
Music from a sensory depravation tank. These are thoughts which fly
though the mind when there is no conscious sensation available to the
body. The heartbeat is omnipresent, it rules all. But between the
beats, an eternity elapses. Slotek exploits that eternity to the hilt.
With all sorts of unusual sounds and musical bents. A good amount of
middle-eastern stuff, plenty of hip-hop, soundscape pieces and pretty
much everything else flies through at one time or another. It doesn't
seem like that, as the beats are slow and deliberate. But when all is
said and done, so much has passed that it is almost incomprehensible.
Whew. I've been waiting for a new Slotek disc for ages, and this still
manages to blow me away. A communal disc, where cultures and ideas are
shared and digested equally. Immerse yourself. You may not want to
return.