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Showing posts with label Why We Listen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Why We Listen. Show all posts

Tuesday, 24 May 2016

speedbreakingwhatsoundalwaysbe


One of this year's more audacious & diverting 'remixes' (response or engagement might be a better way of putting it...), Marc Kate's Low blow brilliantly unleashes Bowie & Eno's inner drone: "All 11 tracks of 'Low' playing at the same time, stretched to three hours." 

That cover image (itself a manipulation of the The Man Who Fell to Earth-sourced Low cover, presumably) encapsulates this vast piece's inevitably sedimented, smeared feel. Even if its ochre strata are rather warmer...




Kate's Despairer is also delicious - especially the measured potency of I Would Do Anything For You. Except Listen (featured in the March edition of Lend Me Your Radio, LMYE's monthly SoundCloud playlist) & Abject-Oriented Ontology (another exercise in intense, stately gathering; balletic video below). 







Bonus (mastered by the great Lawrence English, no less...):



Bonus #2 (continuing the simultaneity theme):



Bonus #3:



NB: Kate is also the host of Why We Listen: a strikingly thoughtful podcast that recently featured Disquiet's Marc Weidenbaum, in whose online listening group of a few years ago LMYE's jl & al first 'met'...



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