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The Gluerooms 11/07
The Gluerooms presents
Our Pheromones are all Loose
28th November 2007
Amersham Arms, New Cross, London
Performing live:
DJ TENDRAW & THE GYPSIES DOG
CYCLAMEN
NEW LOW
OSCILLATORIAL BINNAGE
PATTERN
SCULPTURE
RICHARD THOMAS
Our Pheromones Are All Loose - Available from www.4thharmonic.com featuring: New Low - Sculpture - Carjacker - Patten - James Dunn - Flames - Oscillatorial Binnage - Cyclamen - DJ Tendraw & The Gypsies Dog - Richard Thomas
An overview of London's lo-fi electronic scene, this may not get cockney chests swelling with pride but there's enough to give cause for optimism. Noise informs much of the material. New Low feed gamelan chimes through ring modulators and mic feedback while Carjacker spotlights some entertainingly moronic distorto-vocal and cheesy synth chords. DJ Tendraw & The Gypsies Dog's circuit-bent squeals are the closest the collectioncomes to power electronics, and both Flames and Cyclamen hark back to 80s cassette experimentalism with their dirt encrusted ritual dronescapes.
On a laptop tip, Patten's beatific glitchology blows up periodically into mild gusts of distortion. There are two really fine pieces here: Oscillatorial Binnage balance acoustic and processed tones with flair and absurdist humour to create a kind of breakneck World music/noise hybrid. But far and away the best track is tapesplice maestro Sculpture's "Noze Musk, the best piece of twitchy splatter since DAT Politics' /Wow Twist/. The collection is rounded of nicely with Richard Thomas holding a mic out of the window of a speeding car, producing the familiar distorted roar favoured by many noisicians without having to deal with the nasty business of having to stick a contact mic in his mouth.
Wire, 2007.
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