Labels: Minimal Resource Manipulation
Review by: Captain Fidanza
When I put this CD into the computer, a little box appeared with the following words inside, “the songs on this CD could not be found online, would you still like to import it ?”
Obviously I clicked on the “yes” button, as any CD which contains music which hasn’t been leaked all over the internet and put on Facebook and Myspace clearly has an air of individuality about it which from my point of vantage, is somewhat lacking in 99% of modern music. And this is certainly modern music.
I looked on the Minimal Resource Manipulation website and it talked about making music from “found sounds,” an idea I like very much and which immediately brought to mind the portrayal of Martin Hannett in the film about Factory Records. When we are first introduced to him, he’s just walking about in the hills with the cans on his head, recording silence, just to see what it sounded like I presume. If Hannet was still alive today and took a trip to Tokyo to just walk around recording the noises he found there, this CD is probably what he would come back with.
There are certain elements of the Drukqs album here I think, the seemingly, at times, arbitrary construction of assorted whizz bangs which only coalesce into a discernible whole given a second or third listen. Sometimes the sound is rather heavier on the bangs than the whizzes, but it’s in the quieter moments that the album really came to life for me, those songs wherein you get the feeling of eavesdropping on a series of intimate exchanges between two lovelorn computer hard drives.
Hypnotic stuff.