{"id":9482,"date":"2004-05-09T19:23:51","date_gmt":"2004-05-09T18:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/?p=9482"},"modified":"2004-05-09T19:23:51","modified_gmt":"2004-05-09T18:23:51","slug":"a-compressed-history-of-everything-ever-recorded-vol-1-reviewed-by-touching-extremes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/?p=9482","title":{"rendered":"\u00e2\u20ac\u0153A Compressed History of Everything Ever Recorded, Vol. 1\u00e2\u20ac\u009d reviewed by Touching Extremes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a flick of the switch and you&#8217;re right into an absurdly efficient sonic end of the world or, even better, the audio equivalent of the Big Bang. As the title suggests, this is music dealing with compression; nevertheless, among the incredible accelerations and enormous expansions heard in this &#8220;History&#8221;, you can reasonably think about hidden space caves and obscure galaxies without sounding like a Star Trek (or Tangerine Dream, for that matter) aficionado, as breathtaking suspensions and harsh awakenings run together like there&#8217;s no tomorrow throughout the CD. Impossible to catch, never giving an inch of confidence to even the most courageous listeners, this artifact avoids &#8220;dark ambient&#8221; and &#8220;post-techno&#8221; stereotypes in favour of a no-genre fast recollection, similar to life frames running in the eyes of a man in extreme life danger: if he manages to save himself, surely he will remember those moments for a long time. Yeah, I&#8217;m waiting for the second volume!<\/p>\n<p>Massimo Ricci<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a flick of the switch and you&#8217;re right into an absurdly efficient sonic end of the world or, even better, the audio equivalent of the Big Bang. As the title suggests, this is music dealing with compression; nevertheless, among the incredible accelerations and enormous expansions heard in this &#8220;History&#8221;, you can reasonably think about &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/?p=9482\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;\u00e2\u20ac\u0153A Compressed History of Everything Ever Recorded, Vol. 1\u00e2\u20ac\u009d reviewed by Touching Extremes&#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":[438,59],"class_list":["post-9482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-438","tag-autodigest","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9482","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=9482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}