Artist : Demdike Stare
Title : Part 1
Genre : Bass
Year : 2009
Date : 09/2009
Bitrate : VBR kbps
Tracks : 05
Label : Demdike Stare
Source : Vinyl
Encoder : Lame 3.97
Length : 26:50 min
Size : 37,1 MB
Tracklist:
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01.jannisary 06:09
02.suspicious drone 06:35
03.haxan dub 05:14
04.all hallows eve 03:49
05.regressor 05:03
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26:50 min
First of two strictly limited LP's from
this Incredible new project fusing
elements of everything from fragmented
dub to Turkish, Iranian and West Indian
library records, through to Scandinavian
drone and Chicago House, carefully
brought to life by Berlin's Dubplates
and Mastering and limited to 300 copies
for the world...* Demdike Stare is a
long-in-the-making hookup between two
shady characters operating at the
fringes of Manchester's fragmented music
scene: Miles Whittaker and Sean Canty.
Miles has been a longtime affiliate of
Modern Love as one half of Pendle Coven
and under his own MLZ alias, while Canty
is one of the city's most recognisable
vinyl collectors, carrying an obsession
with everything from obscure Nordic Doom
records to Anatolyan funk albums,
fuelled by his involvement with the
Finders Keepers label. The project is
named after Pendle's most famous witch:
Elizabeth Southerns, aka Demdike. The
tracks draw on elements from Turkish,
Indian, Iranian, African and West Indian
film soundtracks alongside Finnish drone
records, classic House templates,
punctured dub, modified techno and the
arctic noise perfected by Mika Vainio.
Original sources and dense analogue
experiments weave around eachother with
little care for convention or stylistic
expectation, instead throwing the pair's
extensive musical knowledge into a set
of tracks that, quite brilliantly, defy
categorisation. 'Suspicious Drone', is a
dense 6 minute pulse that chugs a long
like a malfunctioning mechanical beast,
honing in on Lancashire's dark
industrial landscape before moving onto
more exotic, balmy territory. 'Haxan
Dub' (named after the film narrated by
william burroughs about witchcraft)
deploys fragmented dub echoes infused
with displaced horns and African
signatures, taking its time with one of
the jerkiest rhythms you'll have the
pleasure of hearing, while 'Jannisary'
tangles in and out of an Iranian hook
and a squashed Congolese rhythm that
creates an asymmetric, geniusly
constructed dancefloor killer. "All
Hallows Eve", meanwhile, features the
considerable talents of Danny Norbury,
weaving dense bass plucks around the
albums most unhinged 5 minute stretch.