s w e e t b e a t s
august.08.2003 - #1186
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artist : Maps + Diagrams
album : Polytuft-Tech
year : 2003
label : Expanding Records
genre : Electronic
catalogue : ECD12:03
url : www.expandingrecords.com
quality : CD 192k HQ True Stereo
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01.Vacado 03:05
02.Altitude 03:35
03.Frma 03:20
04.Not Here 05:19
05.Grenaulb 03:58
06.Through Me 03:38
07.Lost Mechanics 04:04
08.Ot. 1_6 00:47
09.Sandstore 04:05
10.Breezed 01:29
11.Flex-I 04:06
12.Never Unsure 04:02
13.Find Your Way 02:01
14.Palm-Desk-Lap 03:25
15.Sinking Backwards 04:31
16.Soft Geometry 02:50
16 tracks | 54:15 mins | 74,7 MB
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Tim Martin returns with the second 'Maps + Diagrams' full-lengther,
this time round for the ever-endearing Expanding imprint.
'Polytuft-Tech' strikes a complex and intricate electronic sound,
retaining a textured, emotionally laden melodic undercurrent. As
Maps and Diagrams, Tim has also previously released music for Neo
Ouija, Pause 2, Tundra Music and Endorphin. In addition, he runs
his own label, Cactus Island. "I prefer to create simple melodies
that tend to bounce off each other and try not to get too
distracted with the over-production that we hear in some music now
days. I've always been into electronic styles of music and
influenced by technology. Polytuft-Tech for me was a step up from
that sound which i had developed from a few years back, with my
debut lp Free-Time on Pause_2. With Polytuft-tech i kept similar
melodies and developed a warmer more advanced structure to my
music, with more emphasis on the percussion and underlying sounds
that carried the music deeper". 'Vacado' bears this out with its
schnauss-like euphoria in the melody department, 'Frma' builds out
in another direction still, direct beats with a melodic hook to
savour. 'Grenaulb' and 'Flex-i' are in fact, far from malleable,
crystalline clear, almost woven electronics. Born in 1972, Tim
spent most of his childhood whizzing round Nottingham on a bmx and
listening to his friend's dad's collection of Kraftwerk, Talking
Heads and punk records. Perhaps only the punk tunes have failed to
make an indelible sonic imprint. A love affair with electro and hip
hop then followed and ensued that he never looked back - Tim got
his hands on a clapped out keyboard in the early nineties, soon
finding the sounds he imagined when he was younger, childhood
memories come flooding back during this abum, as well as a certain
lamentation of teenage abandon. You have to say this is the best
material we've heard yet from Tim's project and further evidence of
Expanding's inexorable progress in the major league electronic
stakes. Fans of Arovane, EU, Chrsitain Kleine and the like should
take note. Excellent.
--boomkat.com
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