- Avant-garde
- Experimentalism
- Electronic music
- Dada
music
- Freeformfreakout
- DIY
Comment: this
10-notch issue was released exactly 7 years ago at Chinstrap Music,
Ergo Phizmiz-led imprint but in fact there is no difference by
listening to it 7 years before the year of 2011 or 7 years after that
because this kind of music is ageless. By the way, it is the same date when the Chernobyl`s reactors exploded. Peter Um`s music is recorded
by using analogue-based, reel-to-reel recorder and stylistically it
is a wealthy, further pushing mess of dadaist sounds and dizzy
effects. I have also had a similar experience in producing music by
manipulating with the tapes only. This is a world with restricted
possibilities which in fact is a good premiss to cut off innumerable
possibilities and get a spot on certain, tangible things. Indeed,
there are up 10 slices of uncompromising pop music with droning
electronics and marching rhythms and pitched-up vocals (for instance,
Slice 1, and
Slice 10) though I guess for the most of
people it is not pop music at all. They may right because I guess
Peter Um`s purpose is not positive, I mean to produce pop music on
its own. It may be more just embracing elements from it and infect
them with a frenetic, dadaist fever. In fact, he hijacks primitive
melodies and harmonies and change them even more into a simplistic
one which is one of the practices to ridicule this pulpy mass
culture. On the other side, Um adds experimental, even a bit
aggressive facets to emphasize the ridiculousness and
unsustainability of it. In general, however, the result is positive
because there are up 10 tracks which could not be forgotten and will
have surfaced many decades later in the blogs of obscure music unless
the servers would not blow up due to insignificant information to be
contained within them in the most part.
NB! I do not know was the album presented at yamanotedreams or not but I am very glad that rajsank is back again after a two and a half year hiatus to promote releases from the webaudio world (and especially Japanese issues). The reason of the blogger`s hiatus was he could not be remembering his password. Very dadaist indeed.
