{"id":3985,"date":"2010-11-10T10:59:18","date_gmt":"2010-11-10T09:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/?p=3985"},"modified":"2017-01-08T19:54:29","modified_gmt":"2017-01-08T18:54:29","slug":"the-mediterranean-drift-reviewed-by-cyclic-defrost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/?p=3985","title":{"rendered":"\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Mediterranean Drift\u00e2\u20ac\u009d reviewed by Cyclic Defrost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cronicaelectronica.org\/img\/cat\/049-2010-b.jpg\" alt=\"The Mediterranean Drift\" \/><br \/>\nRan Slavin, &#8216;Film Maker \/ Artist \/ Director-Writer \/ Sound Producer&#8217;, rhymes with Dan Flavin, the late American neon minimalist, but there the similarities end, at least as concerns his latest album, the free-to-download The Mediterranean Drift on the criminally underrated Cronica label. Based partly around the threat and turmoil of the present day middle east, as documented by Claude-Joseph Vernet in his 1772 painting &#8216;The Shipwreck&#8217;, the Tel Aviv-based artist explores a suitably murky, sub-aqueous sound world, like Tim Hecker with bubbles.<\/p>\n<p>The opening half, dominated by the 15 minute opening track &#8216;Losing Coordinates in the Mediterranean Drift&#8217;, centres around warm flickering tones and circling granular loops, doused in hiss and crackle and reminiscent of Philip Jeck. This section functions as an &#8216;establishing shot&#8217; for the darker, more evocative second half. &#8216;Financial Warfare and Psychological Sedatives&#8217; is immediately more striking, drawn in dub-charcoal and marked by submarine pulses and streaming ticker-tape, depicting the stock market plummeting into the sea. &#8216;Chemical Canaries and Car Alarms&#8217; is more abrupt, and as close to Noise as Slavin gets, all industrial machine beats and toxic din, while the closing &#8216;Every road leads to the BAD ROAD&#8217; crumbles glistening synth pads into shattered ruins, sleigh bells floating over acrid smoke. Here Slavin creates an inspired synthesis of beauty and ugliness, birth and decay, and a fitting conclusion to such a powerful album. <em>Joshua Meggitt<\/em><\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cyclicdefrost.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/25\/ran-slavin-the-mediterranean-drift-cronica\/\">Cyclic Defrost<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ran Slavin, &#8216;Film Maker \/ Artist \/ Director-Writer \/ Sound Producer&#8217;, rhymes with Dan Flavin, the late American neon minimalist, but there the similarities end, at least as concerns his latest album, the free-to-download The Mediterranean Drift on the criminally underrated Cronica label. Based partly around the threat and turmoil of the present day middle &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/?p=3985\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Mediterranean Drift\u00e2\u20ac\u009d reviewed by Cyclic Defrost&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[391,24],"class_list":["post-3985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-391","tag-ran-slavin","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3985"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3987,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3985\/revisions\/3987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}