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Omit - Interceptor [Helen Scarsdale - 2008]

This two disk set brings together a selection of two decades worth of work by new Zealand based Clinton Williams  and his often barren, lo-fi and melancholy licked take on Electroinca.

The tracks on offer here are nearly always dark, barren and rather bleak built around slow moving analogue synth drones, throbs and pluses, which hover with grim and slow moving harmonic fibres. Often the tracks career, shift  and are pin-pricked with simplistic & skeletal beat structures, barren tape elements,or eerier percussive loops. Most of the tracks here are often very lengthy and drilling. And through this certainly has it’s moments of bleak and striped hypnotics about it- on the whole I found it all a little bit samey and predictable. I think being spread over the two disks does'nt help because  it just starts to become much  like melancholy sonic wallpaper; with the pace, sounds and sonic emotion  rarely changing or varying.

Kudos must go to Helen Scarsdale for making some of Williams work more widely available and certainly if you enjoy very  bleak and barren electronic drifts  you might well get something out of this. But I just found it too samey and ultimately rather grimly boring.

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Roger Batty
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