MACHINEFABRIEK - 'Marijn' LP (Burning World Records)
Dutch artist Rutger Zuydervelt presents six tracks of post-industrial ambience. Zuydervelt works with live instruments, mostly piano and guitar, and intense computer processing to create gloomy instrumentals. The tracks develop very slowly, pushing them to the level of density his music requires. Looping piano changes into a menacing melody, followed by a transitory section that leads to the grand finale: A five minute noise orgy that sounds like plugging headphones into the turbine of an Airbus. This is quite a surprise when compared to the overall quiet nature of the LP, but it sums up a very intense album. Limited to 300 copies on black vinyl.
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Europe 14£
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MACHINEFABRIEK - 'Ranonkel' CD (Burning World Records)
'Ranonkel' marks a break in form from the recent output, avoiding all sense of this being another ephemeral transmission from the Machinefabriek hard drive, and instead sounding like a fully formed bonafide album, a worthy follow-up to 'Marijn'. Rutger Zuydervelt combines the very best of his microsound work with an explicitly tuneful instrumental element... an infinitely graceful backdrop of high frequency sine tones, crackle and slow chords. The finest Machinefabriek outing of 2008 by some margin - you'll be returning to the opening piece in particular again and again. Matt digifile.
