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<DIV><SPAN class=872235205-20042010><FONT face=Arial size=2>Nice review from Alt
Sound who wisely note, "(don't listen to this in the car with your Gran!)
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<DIV><SPAN class=872235205-20042010><FONT face=Arial size=2>Autistici ::
Detached Metal Voice - Early Works (Vol I)</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=872235205-20042010></SPAN><FONT face=Arial size=2>Audiobulb
head honcho David Newman, always an embracer of the electronic edge, has
delivered a particularly prickly pair in Detached Metal Voice. Newman has raided
his past and gathered together all the fruit born of long dark nights closed off
from the world with nothing but an old synth and a few circuit boards to keep
him company and fired them into the universe in this volume of uncomfortable
future-retro sound.<BR><BR>Those of you who thought Radiohead's 'Amnesiac' was a
little out there need not trouble themselves with these eleven tracks. Newman
has searched near and far in his attempt at creating “an abstract narrative
exploring the anxiety of disconnected elements striving to find connection in a
world of digital communication.” The album really is as bonkers as that sounds
with the application of synths, oscillators, cuttings of distorted speech and,
as much as anything else, a brutal use of space and silence. <BR><BR>'Colonic
People' provides the only real moment of traditional instrumentation with an
acoustic bass and some shuffled drums, the rest of the record is given over to
pure experimentation, like a freeform jazz interpretation played out inside the
brain of a server. In fact, opener 'On a Beach Of Pure Data' comes across like
an eavesdropped conversation between sentient computers as flashes of
electricity crackle out of from underneath the backdrop of doomy synthetic
noise. We aren't dealing with Noise as a genre here though as these songs are
far more structured, verging on a classical stance. <BR><BR>Elsewhere, more
weird shit continues to happen with persons unknown clearly having rather a good
time on both 'They Move On Me' and 'Beneath' (don't listen to this in the car
with your Gran!) while 'Whispering Mango Man' uses a John Lennon interview minus
the John Lennon. Apparently Newman has left only the dead legend's breathing in
the mix of slowed down interviewer speech and robot insect chatter. An
avant-garde ruse Yoko couldn't fail but to admire. <BR><BR>Detached Metal Voice
will leave many scratching their heads - even those already aware of his
recently released second album "Complex Tone Test". Those who like to stretch
their own taste limits and journey past the safety net in search of warped new
horizons should give Autistici a go, but be warned, easy this
ain't.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT><SPAN class=872235205-20042010><FONT face=Arial size=2>More info @
the audiobulb release page :: </FONT></SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2><A
href="http://www.audiobulb.com/albums/AB028/AB028.htm">http://www.audiobulb.com/albums/AB028/AB028.htm</A></FONT></DIV>
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