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Desolating The Curse

Desolating The Curse

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"Post said that the product liability lawsuit sought $6.2 million, charging that the record was a defective product that bombarded the psychodynamic subconscious mind. The suit was brought under product liability law because it was felt that [redacted] could be held responsible for a faulty record just like another company should be held liable for an exploding soda bottle or an exploding gasoline tank on an automobile. Defense witness [redacted], a psychology professor, attributed the plaintiffs' actions to alcohol and drug use, personality disorders, and problems with work and family."

No Ufo’s

Mpc Tracks Vol. II

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1. "Representation has only a single centre, a unique and receding perspective, and in consequence a false depth. It mediates everything but mobilizes and moves nothing." - Gilles Deleuze, 1968; "No to transformations and magic and make-believe." - Yvonne Rainer, 1965 2. "Flat affect.. alogia.. avolition.." - DSM-IV, 1994; "No to moving or being moved" - Yvonne Rainer, 1965 3. "In short, the conditions under which we know things and are conscious of ourselves con­demn us to have only inadequate ideas, ideas that are confused and mutilated, effects separated from their real causes." - Gilles Deleuze, 1970; "I think we tend to confuse the style of the finished work with the method through which it was done.. we are assuming similar things are identical.." - Roy Lichtenstein, 1966 Trois oiseaux. The first NU Tool: 24 minutes of pure rhythm and sound offering boundless opportunity. "Stripped-down rhythm tracks, strictly for the heads."

Cloudface

Wyre Drive

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Wyre Drive marks the debut of Vancouver's David Reynolds. Initially inspired by his time in the techno mecca of Berlin, Dave has spent the last few years using frequent, all-hardware live sets to shape the music he makes as Cloudface. It doesn't hurt that he daylights as a technician at the local repair shop, often working on the same machines he makes music with. He knows the storied Rolands, Korgs and Akais inside and out, digital and analog, MIDI, DIN Sync and CV. This immersion has paid off: Wyre Drive collects a mighty set of standalone miniatures tailored to the recorded format. United by process, the EP displays a variety of forms and moods, from the saturated 100 BPM swing of "Babak's House" to the pastoral, Cluster-esque "Meadow Like" and the pure TB-303 workout "Raskolnikov." Vintage tools, modern flair.

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Mpc Tracks Vol. I

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One of the many problems with the artist is that sooner or later they may attempt to revisit their roots, and then you know you're in for it. In this case, "roots" isn't the best depiction (strictly speaking, Mr. NU was playing in bands during the 90s) but we can now disclose that No UFO's spent much of the 00s a) DJing, b) making frequent trips to Chicago and other American cities to coax house and disco records from poker-faced bins, and c) producing tracks with his Akai MPC. Consequently his familiarity with dance music runs a wee bit deeper than he may want to let on. Yes, perhaps there's more than we expected going on here - not merely the adoption of au courant tropes but, even worse, nostalgia. Well, we choose to be willfully blind to these suggestions and put forth an alternate theory: he's having fun here!  Yes, it's true - it's present in his playful use of Alan Parsons samples, the cheeky Captain Beyond allusion, what may be his first substantial use of bass frequencies, not to mention the intermittent 100-110 BPM thump: FUN. Isn't that all any listener could want?  No further explanation needed.