Thursday, June 5, 2008

Signal - Robotron


From Boomkat:
"Supergroups rarely work out, but this head-to-head sees the minimal sound artists losing their respective attention to detail and heading out into a messy world of robot funk. Recorded in 2001-2006 in Berlin, Tokyo and Chemitz (the East German birthplace of Raster Noton) we see the three musicians taking hold of their considerable combined talents, and far removed from the icy minimalism you would have expected to hear from the three in the past, this is as pounding and ear destroying as Pan Sonic in their prime. Rough sampled textures are chopped and layered rhythmically beneath pounding kick drums and cyclic high pitched synthesizer tones, leaving Bretschneider's token bass frequencies room to make up the heavy bottom end. Somewhere in between the warehouse pounding of Chain Reaction-era Monolake and the tempered minimal headphone listening we all came to expect from Alva Noto, Signal is a brutal listening experience, best heard loud to the point of discomfort. In fact I can imagine this music played on gigantic stacks of speakers, the frequencies booming out across thousands of eager heads - it's just so immense. Those of you enamoured with the work of any of the artists involved, or with classic Sahko or Hardwax emissions really need to check this without delay. Immense and totally intense music."

Artist: Signal
Album: Robotron
Label: Raster-Noton
Format: CD
Country: Germany
Released: 2007
Genre: Electronic
Style: Abstract, Minimal, Experimental
Credits: Music By - Carsten Nicolai , Frank Bretschneider , Olaf Bender

Tracklisting:
1 Intro (Monsator) (1:12)
2 Ermafa (3:32)
3 Naplafa (5:52)
4 Robotron (7:29)
5 Malimo (4:41)
6 Wismut (7:00)
7 Rawema (3:41)
8 Datasette (0:23)
9 Sporett (3:10)
10 Epirex Motor (4:18)
11 Wismut (Version) (7:15)

Enjoy.

Signal - Robotron (Rapidshare Link)

Signal - Robotron (Mediafire Link)

2 comments:

elriqui said...

Hi! i just want to tell you that i accidentally find your blog looking for some Arvo Part music and i have to say that i found quite a lot more than that!! I took a quick look at the music you're sharing here and i'm so amazed of the quality and variety! i've started downloading some albumbs but i belive i'll end downloading every one! Many many many thanks so. Salutes....

Mike said...

Thanks for the kind response. We'll be updating the blog in a couple of days, so stay tuned ;)