Release : Conforce - Machine Conspiracy
Artist : Conforce
Album : Machine Conspiracy
Genre : Techno
Source : Vinyl
Label : Meanwhile
URL : http://www.myspace.com/meanwhilesounds
Date : 02-19-2010
Encoder : LAME 3.97 / -V2 --vbr-new
Quality : 203kbps 44100 kHz Joint Stereo
Tracks : 6
Time : 41:31 min
Size : 60.74 MB
A1 Sonar Conversations 8:14
B1 First Impression 6:14
B2 Subtraction 7:04
C1 Intimidation 7:19
C2 Machine Conspiracy 4:45
D1 Rare Education 7:55
Conforce, aka Dutch techno producer Boris Bunnik, presents his debut album on
Meanwhile. Entitled "Machine Conspiracy", the album continues in the same vein
as Conforce's recent releases on Meanwhile and Modelisme, focusing on a bright
and buoyant dub techno vibe. The album was recorded mostly in his bedroom in
Leeuwarden, with two tracks originating on the Island of Terschelling, an
isolated Dutch isle where Bunnik grew up, which is pictured on the album's
cover. All the tracks on Machine Conspiracy 2x12" are previously unreleased!
An inspired special project for the Meanwhile imprint for their second ever
album release, evidence of insightful A&R chops in fine shape, and make no
mistake about it 2010 is the year for their shot at the title. The electronic
depth of classic techno and house music here brings to mind Morgan Geist's
comment that "Techno is black music. It's as black as jazz". Opening with an
insolent, precise, tightly-wound bass and hats configuration, there's immediate
affinity with Carl Craig's myriad shades of impeccable funk, A kinship is
established between windy cities, gloom, lakeside living - a central if slightly
murked connection. A primordial roving bassline wades through the cooled out
density of "Sonar Conversations". "First impression" typifies this album's
marriage of fractured emotion with a heart of soulful belief - the pulsing but
still functional human wreckage and embers that remain after the machines have
moved on, if you like. "Subtraction" doffs its cap to manchester's own emergent
noughties sound: fat-sub-bassed, minimally-conjured, slightly-squeezed, acid-hi,
tech-business. Superior stuff that wears it well on a drive at dawn through
Babylon. "Intimidation" certainly lives up to its title, a sullen sense of clammy
fear and whispered malevolence emanates, while the tunebuilds up a significant
dancefloor momentum, deadly funky even within its coldly insistent patterns.
"Machine Conspiracy" warms us back to life with a thrumming Channel from a Basic
surge and a rimshot to die for - one of those stripped dub destroyers you can
return to in any mood for guidance - righteous music. "Rare Education" jams on it
like Magic Juan lording it at a mint bar hosted by Lil Louis, sheer classic vibes.
http://www.myspace.com/conforce