(1999) This influential release from UK experimental musician and writer David Toop contains readings from his book, "Exotica", with musical contributions from different artists, including: Bill Laswell, Paul Schütze, Max Eastley, Scanner, Amelia Cuni, Werner Durand and Talvin Singh. The outer limits of music and consciousness are fearlessly explored here. A captivating extrapolation of estranged literary exoticism, the multiple layers of sound and meaning are sumptously displayed like hallucinatory veils, as a fictitious netherworld is sculpted into a global surreality.
Debut 'EP' from this French duo containing the two title tracks and two remix tracks. 'Psychoide' is a "gorgeous soft cacophony of epic post rock drift", while 'Participation Shift' has "deep soft swells of shimmering warmth and distant bits of industrial clatter, a slow burning ambient drift that is eventually joined by a simple motorik rhythm". The two remix tracks are: 'Psychoide' remixed by SCANNER (Robin Rimbaud) and Participation Mystic remixed by JESU (Justin Broadrick of Final, Techno Animal, Godflesh). The result is a very cinematic, mesmerising warm piece of music, spanning 43 minutes. Limited to 1000 copies in a nice digipak with sticker.
UK 9£
Europe 10£
World 11£
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VA - 'C.U.E. Compilation 3' CD (C.U.E. Records)
Third compilation from Japanese label C.U.E. On this release, the Noise, Minimal, Ambient, Experimental and Abstract music is again by mostly Japanese artists, and is once more 15 tracks: Scanner, Kissa Big Yodo, Sunao Inami, Kazuya Ishigami, Morgan Fisher , Symphony Space, CARRE, Anla Courtis, Morishige Yasumune, Keitaro Iijima, Funaman, Huguet, Atsunobu Tadatsu, Tadashi Usami and Yow Funahashi. Comes in slimline jewelcase. Extremely rare Japanese import.
