Review article on releases from the Mille Plateaux label from 1998. With music we can change the world; subtle changes of perception, shifting an outlook that can no longer be solidified, coherent or self-orienting. We turn instead to an outside: a large window… several horizons… adjectives and vision absconding through red solarised trees.
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Peter Edwards: the endless short story – a six year loop [emailorder tape] concept and review by Eddie Miller aka Flint Michigan.
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A 20 minute long studio dabble from New Order recorded as a test for Blue Monday but shifted to the role of Hacienda video soundtrack finds here its first vinyl release. An intriguing track that marked the onset of a recombinant disco music shot through with a waning punk ethos.
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The full record review section from Datacide 4 feat. Ript Skin, Photic Driver, Somatic Responses, New Skin, Mille Plateaux, V/Vm, Fifth Era, Optical… and many many more – in other words an amazing array of classic breakcore, experimental broken beats, hardcore, drum’n’bass, and conceptual noise!
Read Moreall record reviews published in issue nr.5, winter 1998/1999.
Read MoreThe Pop Group: We Are All Prostitutes (Radar CD) Simultaneous to the release of new tracks by Mark Stewart (featuring
Read MoreX-Ecutioners: X-Pressions [Asphodel] Mix-Master Mike: Anti-Theft Device [Asphodel] It may perhaps be an indication of the renewed currency of electro
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One area of electronic dance music that doesn’t seem to be being explored is a more fucked up and experimental use of the slow-break. Force Inc.’s Electric Ladyland series is an exception and one of its frequent contributors, 4-E, has been plying this approach over a series of releases.
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Uniformity breeds content breeds conformity… What were the 80s? What was 80s music? When D’Arcangelo throw an acoustic psychogeographical spanner into the works everyone behaves like Pavlov’s dogs. I’m told that one side of their ep is “a joke” or “a waste of time”, that I should go for the noise side and ignore the other.
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