Search for   wildcard searchword search With search mode ANDOR in allband specialsreviewsarticlesmp3 section(s) And sort the results by BandnameAlbumtitle/Articletitle/SongDate show articles written by All authorsNiels van Rongen Andreas Oelke Sander Hordijk Jacob Avlund Justin Faase Aldo Quispel Dan Felch François Monti Jeff Jacobus David Bauwens Roger Batty Patrick Toepoel John Pusieski Duncan Simpson Erwin Michelfelder N.S. Endebo Nicholas Szczepanik Delirious Insomniac manuel pereira Russell Cuzner Sven Klippel Serdar Yegulalp Josh Landry Lawrence J. Patti David Bourgoin Viktorya Kaufholz Andy Ortmann Various Justin Marc Lloyd Martin P James DC Todd Robinson Nicola Vinciguerra Bill Too Ross Baker Richard T Williams Paul Casey Hal Harmon Dave Biddulph Michael Cunningham Jean-Paul Garnier Tyler L. Julien Skrobek Cory Strand Adam Skyes Darren Charles James Shearman Sergey Pakhomov Johan Strömvall Hammarstedt Lob Instagon Jennifer Wallis Jan Warnke Damien De Coene A. Cooley Manuel Armida-Honner Julien Skrobek Karl Grümpe Colin Lang Alex McLean Cavan Gilbey Sarah Gregory Jac Silver Casper van der Veen Joanne West William Burns    Review archive:  # a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z  Exhaust - Enregistreur [Constellation Records - 2002] Constellation Records is one of the most consistently impressive labels around. Whether it’s with grand releases such as Godspeed You Black Emperor!’s latest or with intimate affairs such as Frankie Sparo’s live EP, a certain intangible quality has always been present. Exhaust is a bass, drum & tape trio (with some bass clarinet making an appearance sporadically thanks to bassist Gordon) and Enregistreur is their first release since their 1998 self-titled album (released on vinyl and 2 years later on CD). The press release states that it is a “downtempo album of concrete/punk experimentation that gestures towards various currents in contemporary electronic music”. I think that’s a fair general description, but it should also be noted that Exhaust’s music is quite ominous and dark. The bass seems to be played using a volume pedal to eliminate most of the note attack; this, combined with the brooding, cello-like playing and the quantity of “organic” electronic noises and tape manipulations gives the album a paranoid, almost claustrophobic aura. As good as this all sound on paper and as excellent as those musicians are, the actual music didn’t quite affect me as much as I had first hoped. I admit that it did suffer the comparison with the new Hangedup (from the same label, a mind-blowing disc – But that’s another review) and it had to fight for its place in my playlist against many other recent albums, but even on its own I feel that there’s a little something missing. It does succeed on the ambience level – this could be the soundtrack to a very depraved movie – but the really good moments (such as the the 4:00 break in Voiceboxed) are too few and far in between and many tracks take quite a while to get going: this makes active listening a little tedious. I’ll put this album in my “late night ambience” pile. Exhaust - Enregistreur Constellation Records is one of the most consistently impressive labels around. Whether it’s with grand releases such as Godspeed You Black Emperor!’s la... 161225   Daniel Szwed - Splinter 161225   Marmur - Elektroniczne Systemy 151225   Danheim - Heimferd 151225   Stärker - Spectral 131225   Rose Tang & Patrick Golden -... 121225   Uriah Heep - The Shadow And ... 121225   Howard Stelzer - Five Thousa... 121225   BITTER SPINSTER - Scat Punk 121225   Cro-Mags - Alpha Omega 121225   Cro-Mags - Near Death Experience The Spectral Sounds of The Projec... As music obsessives know, what makes a label fascinating is not just the sounds they release. The most intriguing labels offer a conceptual framework and con... 041225   The Spectral Sounds of The Pr... 281025   Michael Hurst Interview - Unb... 071025   Xiphos - The Rise And Fall Of... 030925   Third Window Films - A Label ... 130825   HNW fest- Barcelona- 12th Apr... 250725   Raté interview - Walled-in F... 180625   Matthew Holmes - Of razor-sha... 280525   The Residents - Visits From T... 090525   Ennaytch - Of walls, abused ... 150425   Dead, Dead Swans interview - ...

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