Freiband - Drone Works #5 (Twenty Hertz, 2004)

1 Untitled 20:02

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Stephan Mathieu - Kapotte Muziek By Stephan Mathieu (Korm Plastics, 2003)

1 A Microsound Fairytale 20:58

Le label néerlandais Korn Plastics édite, sous l’impulsion de Frans De Waard (Staalplaat également), dans les cadre de ses Kapotte Muziek By (série), l’enregistrement d’un concert de l’allemand Stephan Mathieu qui a eu lieu le 10 août 1996 à Berlin, mais retravaillé par ce musicien l’an passé. Usant du bug informatique comme d’une source créatrice et hasardeuse, Mathieu aurait réouvert des fichiers audio dans une autre système d’exploitation et aurait découvert lors de cette manipulation l’enregistrement dans le résultat publié aujourd’hui à savoir : 20 minutes de harsh noise, où les sons sont inlassablement lacérés, déchiquetés, désintégrés. Permet de relativiser la son d’un vinyle laissé sur une plage arrière en plein soleil. Vive les laptops.
Autres Directions

An unintentional destruction occurring to a wilful obliteration of destroyed music. That's the gist of the tenth in the ongoing commissioned series of reworkings of Kapotte Muziek, one of the many projects fronted by Frans De Waard. Stefan Mathieu is no stranger to the art of abstracting somebody else's music, as his Full Swing recording Edits aerolised Yo La Tengo, Kit Clayton, Akira Rabelais and others into dreamy vaporous clouds of digitisation. However, no such bitmapped ambience is found within his processing of Kapotte Muziek, as Mathieu's computer crashed very hard as he neared completion of this piece. After wrestling with his technology for a short time, the computer spat out this medley of his Kapotte Muziek material. The lines between the destructo-loops of faulty musique concrete and Kapotte Muziek's original erratic turntable skitter, Mathieu's shattered thoughts and the computer authored collage, are thoroughly smeared to produce a noxious and thankfully short assault of jittery noise and barking squeals.
Jim Haines, The Wire

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Beequeen - Adeste Fideles (Plinkity Plonk Records, 2000)

1 Adeste Fideles (11:07)

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Beequeen - Summer Rain (Drone Records, 1993)

A Singularity (6:41)
B1 Thunder Rain (4:09)
B2 Thunder Storm (5:04)

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Asmus Tietchens & Vidna Obmana - The Shifts Recyclings (Soleilmoon Recordings, 2002)

1-1 Asmus Tietchens T3:S1/5 (8:27)
1-2 Asmus Tietchens T1:S1/1 (11:33)
1-3 Asmus Tietchens T5:S1/10 (7:44)
1-4 Asmus Tietchens T4:S1/6 (8:28)
1-5 Asmus Tietchens T2B:S1/3 (6:59)
1-6 Asmus Tietchens T3B:S1/5 (8:23)
2-1 Vidna Obmana I (22:58)
2-2 Vidna Obmana II (8:16)
2-3 Vidna Obmana III (17:42)
2-4 Vidna Obmana IV (7:08)
2-5 Vidna Obmana V (9:14)
2-6 Vidna Obmana III (Reprise) (7:17)

Double CD composé de drones par Asmus Tietchens et Vidna Obmana, utilisant le même matériel de base à savoir des morceaux composés par Shifts, un des pseudo de Frans De Waard (Kapotte Muziek, etc, etc)...

Using the same source material, prolific avant-garde composer Asmus Tietchens and experimental music veteran Vidna Obmana set about reinterpreting the music of Shifts, one of Frans De Waard's many alter egos. As ever, Tietchens comes up with some wonderful sound designs, from the blunt metallic pings of 'T1 : S1/1' to the lurching vibrations of 'T5 : S1/10', generally conjuring a sound world populated by enigmatic, low volume drone nebulae and intense microsonic detail. Obmana's music tends to be less discreet in its approach, taking on a more abrasive droning identity that feels at once connected to industrial music and post-Popol Vuh synthesizer drones. Definitely worth spending some time with - especially for established Tietchens fans.
Boomkat

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