{"id":6963,"date":"2014-02-04T10:17:56","date_gmt":"2014-02-04T09:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/?p=6963"},"modified":"2017-01-04T10:47:52","modified_gmt":"2017-01-04T09:47:52","slug":"no-end-of-vinyl-reviewed-by-the-sound-projector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/?p=6963","title":{"rendered":"\u00e2\u20ac\u0153No End of Vinyl\u00e2\u20ac\u009d reviewed by The Sound Projector"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nPure I believe was this electronic extremist who did stuff for Mego and attained notoriety for sampling the run-out grooves of vinyl records to create his very austere digital music. He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s still milking the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153end of vinyl\u00e2\u20ac\u009d concept apparently, since on No End Of Vinyl (CR\u00c3\u201cNICA 079-2013) he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s enlisted ten prominent electronica creators to contribute tracks (some of them remixes) based on the theme. Even the sleeve itself is cleverly overprinted with concentric circles on black card, so that it looks like an idealised vision of microgrooves. Hereon, @c \u00e2\u20ac\u201c slow and increasingly menacing fragments of gurgly broken sounds; Christoph de Bablon \u00e2\u20ac\u201c remix of the original \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcThe End Of Vinyl\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 to produce a boring and pompous synth tune; JSX with his \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcBiological Agents\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 and a decent piece of techno-stealth dredged from the sewers of Paris; cindytalk hurling buckets of digital water over a cliff in slow motion; Goner\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s remake of a Pure track, using too many effects and gimmicks until incoherence dominates; and Opcion \u00e2\u20ac\u201c an effective object lesson in \u00e2\u20ac\u0153less is more\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, with chilling desolate tones. We also have the very interesting Arturas Bum\u00c5\u00a1teinas, whose ingenious \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcOpera Povera\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 was probably constructed from classical music on vinyl, and exhibits a painstaking craft that is notably absent from the other auto-piloted submissions. But Rashad Becker is also memorable with his strangely rotating and colliding elements, spinning in layers like a wall-sculpture made of 100 bicycle wheels; and Pita, whose solo work I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t seem to have heard for a long time now, and whose \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcThis & That Edit\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 has the kind of purity of form that Terry Riley would adore, plus a clarity of tone that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s like spring water on an otherwise rather sludgy-sounding comp. All of these contributions show us possibilities, ways of opening out an idea through remaking and refitting. Yet very few of them really reflect the vinyl-ness of records, apart from a few audible samples of crackles and clicks which surface in some of the contributions, and the digital \u00e2\u20ac\u0153identity\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is very much up front \u00e2\u20ac\u201c processed, artificial, impossibly \u00e2\u20ac\u0153perfect\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a double-edged irony to all of this, since (as the label webpage indicates) the original release of fourteen years ago was full of millennial uncertainty about the future of media carriers, and recorded music in general; it was asking the question \u00e2\u20ac\u0153will vinyl die?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and weeping a solitary tear as if every CD being pressed were another nail in the coffin. Now of course, the way the tide is turning in favour of vinyl and analogue media again, it seems the question is whether the digital has a future. Ed Pinsent<\/em><\/p>\n

via The Sound Projector<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pure I believe was this electronic extremist who did stuff for Mego and attained notoriety for sampling the run-out grooves of vinyl records to create his very austere digital music. He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s still milking the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153end of vinyl\u00e2\u20ac\u009d concept apparently, since on No End Of Vinyl (CR\u00c3\u201cNICA 079-2013) he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s enlisted ten prominent electronica creators to contribute … <\/p>\n

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