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Review: Ben Gwilliam - breakdownspedup

It’s hard to tell what I’m actually hearing. This 18-minute piece comprises several Dictaphone recordings made inside freezers, each concluding in the malfunction and death of the Dictaphone itself. The groan of the freezer motor swells and collects like a pool of liquid in my head – treacle-thick, cognitively
By Jack Chuter Sep 6, 2015

Review: Posset - Goose Shat Silver Dollars

Along with its explicit primary purpose, the tape is a haven of alternative reality strands and whispered micro-detail. There is a hidden music, backmasking phantoms, words slithering out between the momentary gaps between phonemes – it’s all there, ready to be tapped by those that perceive the malleability of the
By Jack Chuter Jan 4, 2014

Review: Fossils - What A Drag

Is that the twang of guitar abuse chiming over What A Drag’s opening minutes, or the sound of something rummaging through a box of crockery? Both perhaps? It’s one of many noises on the tape that rustle and creak beyond the ease of sonic categorisation, and as the
By Jack Chuter Mar 13, 2013

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