In Memoriam Gilles Deleuze (Mille Plateaux, 1996)

1-01 Gilles Deleuze Untitled (0:38)
1-02 Wehowsky& Wollscheid Happy Deterritorializations (4:15)
1-03 :Zoviet * France: On The Edge Of A Grain Of Salt (9:04)
1-04 Alec Empire Bon Voyage (5:25)
1-05 Cristian Vogel Gigantic Tautological Machinery (7:02)
1-06 Christophe Charles Undirections/Continuum (9:38)
1-07 Atom Heart Abstract Miniatures In Memoriam Gilles Deleuze (3:43)
1-08 Gas Heller (7:36)
1-09 Chris & Cosey Intro-Spektiv (5:05)
1-10 J. Burger Wunschmaschinenpark (3:53)
1-11 Steel Death Is The Beginning (5:04)
1-12 Blue Byte C'ant Be Still (6:11)
1-13 Trans Am Starjammer (4:07)
1-14 Rome Intermodal (3:41)
2-01 Jim O'Rourke As In (8:57)
2-02 Oval You Are Here 0.9B (2:51)
2-03 Mouse On Mars 1001 (7:11)
2-04 Ian Pooley Vital One (3:28)
2-05 Bleed Patent (6:55)
2-06 Tobias Hazan Queria For Gilles Deleuze (2:57)
2-07 Scanner Without End (7:04)
2-08 DJ Spooky & The Subliminal Kid Invisual Ocean (6:48)
2-09 Fetisch Park Gradation D'Humour (5:53)
2-10 Dü Straobeik (4:27)
2-11 Kerosene And Line (3:11)
2-12 El Turco Loco The Garantor (6:29)
2-13 Beequeen Layered Layers (6:55)

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Alva Noto - Transform (Mille Plateaux, 2001)

A1 m02 (3:37)
A2 m03 (10:05)
B1 m01 (5:50)
B2 m04 (6:23)
C1 m05 (4:43)
C2 m06 (5:37)
C3 m07 (4:59)
D1 m08 (5:28)
D2 m09 (7:45)
D3 m10 (2:42)

Des clicks et des cuts un peu partout saupoudrés de magnifiques nappes aux ambiances dark. Voilà comment résumer en une phrase le second album de l'allemand Carsten Nicolai aka Alva noto.
Oui c'est sûr, Transform n'est pas facile d'accès, tous ceux qui auraient du mal avec Pan Sonic peuvent déjà arrêter de lire cette chronique.
Pourtant, le talent que dégage Alva noto est énorme, des sons de téléphones, de fax ou bien encore de modems vous pénètrent sans cesse le cerveau via vos oreilles... De droite à gauche puis de gauche à droite et parfois en vous remontant tout le corps, ces sons là ne vous seront pas anodins très longtemps.
Bref, une leçon de maîtrise des sons que ce Transform. Indispensable pour les accros du style !!!
dMute

In much the same way as label-mate and colleague Frank Bretschneider, Carsten Nicolai (under his recording guise of Alva Noto) has perfected a strain of clicky minimalism that is increasingly less reliant on the presence of gaps and silence, and instead focuses on the role played by bass pulses and basic groove formation. The components here are distinct and stripped, but the overall construction is not too disimillar to the more accessable compositional tricks of Dub and IDM. Silence, off course, figures in the reflective engineering of the sound space, whereby the ideology is that of space and isolation, but the interpretation is nothing short of accessable. For fans of Ryoji Ikeda and Pan Sonic, Transformation is a standout release that comes across best via headphone listening. Highly Recommended.
Boomkat

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Akira Rabelais - Eisoptrophobia (Ritornell, 2001)

1 Notturno (1:41) Composed By - Béla Bartók
2 Troisième Gnossienne (3:34) Composed By - Erik Satie
3 Aphorisming, Second (0:25) Composed By - V. Carté
4 Rhythme Bulgare (3:13) Composed By - Béla Bartók
5 Aposiopesis (5:16) Composed By - V. Carté
6 Gymnopédie No. 1 (3:50) Composed By - Erik Satie
7 Gymnopédie No. 2 (3:13) Composed By - Erik Satie
8 Gymnopédie No. 3 (2:52) Composed By - Erik Satie
9 M25 Broken & Together (1:48) Composed By - Béla Bartók
10 Cinquième Gnossienne (4:40) Composed By - Erik Satie
11 Première Gnossienne (4:13) Composed By - Erik Satie
12 Aphorisming, First (0:51) Composed By - Erik Satie
13 Notturno (Lovely Remix) (9:10) Composed By - Béla Bartók
14 Berceuse (2:04) Composed By - Erik Satie
15 Bociumeana (2:52) Composed By - Béla Bartók
16 Quatrième Gnossienne (2:34) Composed By - Erik Satie
17 Aphorisming, Third (1:19) Composed By - V. Carté
18 M25 M75 (Fragmented) (1:34) Composed By - Béla Bartók
19 Peloc (1:17) Composed By - Béla Bartók
20 Sarabande No.2 (2:51) Composed By - Erik Satie

Compositions subtiles et lumineuses au piano couvertes par des éléments d'électronique

...When I first heard it back in 2001 I wasn’t sure what to make of it; small subtle compositions constructed with treated piano, covered in dirt, noise and crystalline electronic elements. The more I listened however, the more I became addicted and Rabelais’ moonlit pieces began to soundtrack my evenings. The piano pieces come from very obvious sources, Satie, Bartok and Carte; however it's Rabelais’ computer aided editing (using his custom made software ‘Argephontes Lyre’) which makes them sound so alien. Skip straight to the cover of Satie’s Gymnopedie no.1 (oddly enough also covered lovingly on Isan's excellent new 7" this week) and you'll realise Rabelais’ intense skill in extracting the most intense emotion from a source familiar to most. Beautiful.
Boomkat

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