Artist : Lithops
Title : Mound Magnet Pt.2: Elevations Above Sea Level
Genre : Electronic
Year : 2008
Date : 08/2008
Bitrate : VBR kbps
Tracks : 12
Label : Sonig 71LP
Source : Vinyl
Encoder : Lame 3.97
Length : 44:52 min
Size : 65,0 MB
Tracklist:
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01.roctrum 03:43
02.rosa in a light speed vessel 01:43
03.caribbean circuitry 05:29
04.bleasure pastique 03:16
05.every details matter 04:30
06.noo non m oon 03:31
07.a generation without context 03:40
08.mound magnet pt.1 04:00
(remixed by the allophons)
09.fahrtenheit 02:25
10.concretemess and absaction 04:09
11.serendippo 4 03:52
12.baliation 04:34
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44:52 min
NOTE: Excuse poor stupid old me. He just plugged his cable
in the wrong hole, which caused this little mono mess.
Here now in it's full stereo glory:
"Elevations above Sea Level" is the second Mound Magnet part
from Lithops aka Jan St Werner, 1/2 of the prolific duo Mouse on
Mars, 1/3 of last year's surprise collaboration "Von S│denfed" with
the Fall's Mark E Smith and 1/2 of the dsp group Microstoria.
Though he is a prolific producer he seems to have a fascination
with rollover dates (he cancelled mostly every Lithops gig in the
last 5 years) does that spill into a fascination with cycles of nature?
No! Actually he's more interested in the cycling by man-made
machines, as expressed in the Mound Magent sequel. "Elevations
above Sea Level" gives us aural diagrams of a large, hypermodern
cities with futuristic vehicles moving around.
The electrical ticking of fluorescent advertising panels, a thwappy
airiness of the ventilation system, the rattles of trains and chopped
up hums of distant roads, the mechanical groans that maintenance
machinery starts up with, rain drumming on the stretched glass roofs
of urban malls, the howling groans of motorcycles on city highways.
It's not an ambient record by any means, nor is it purely musique
concrete. It's rather an acid fulled hallucination of how to detect an
idea of the future in the noises that surround us. Though he uses
some of the sound editing methods like his contemporaries (and his
own other groups), this doesn't mass into huge pools to make a
statement; the basslines, hums, jolts and whooshes divide and
multiply into sections like buildings and streets are divided, from
sub-basements to rooftops, alleys and boulevards, by stories.
Lithops' narcoleptic programming has a precision which holds
the listener completely captive -- difficult, haunting and highly enjoyable.
Vinyl limited to 300 copies. Please buy yours now.
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