STILL SINGLE

A space for thoughts on music and culture, as written by Doug Mosurock and a select handful of individuals. This is intended as a supplement to our regular feature Still Single, published on Dusted Magazine. Updates will run here more frequently, and may feature writing on music not covered in the column. Compact discs are still not accepted for review -- we have more than enough vinyl and the occasional cassette to worry about.

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August 7, 2011

Freiband – Stainless Steel LP (ini.itu)

Frans de Waard (Kapotte Muziek, others) develops furious process into middling action with this new Freiband album. Two sidelong pieces figure heavily on technique – here, a process used by Asmus Tietchens where the artist rubs magnetic tape over play heads is somehow transposed to the digital realm – with samples of gamelan, a favorite of artists on ini.itu, stretched and cut and extended and otherwise manipulated for some pleasant, challenging sessions on side 1, and clicks-n-pops on the flip, organized with and against one another to create a minimalist pulse. I read the hyperbolic descriptions on this one and was waiting for something much more extreme, and it feels like I’ve been oversold on what is little more than sound that is far less interesting than the methodologies behind them. All the same, it’s good to space out to, both sides end in locked grooves, and in particular “Steel” feels like a winner. 250 numbered copies. (http://www.iniitu.net)
(Doug Mosurock)

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