| May 2006 news
May 15, 2006
IMPROBABLE MUSIC
• tube'|042 - e:4c - Documents
«e:4c are H. Vasconcelos and J. Correia, a laptop duo from Porto, Portugal, and they build skyscrapers made of heavy pre and post-processed field recordings, cable static and general software sound generation. This is usually filed under 'experimental improvised electronics' and e:4c are obvious followers of Vítor Joaquim, Paulo Raposo, @c and other renowned portuguese laptop experimentalists and composers, and they are extremely good at what they do. This is laptop electronica at its best.
'Documents' contains two long and untitled pieces, #1 and #2, with many distinct moments between the two, some lighter and some deeper. While #1 is a dark themed mass of artificial inteligence sounds, filled with glitches and static, machine crunching of binary data, supported by a low hum of drones, #2 is all light: a nostalgic and emotional piece, technologically advanced, full of spectral sounds, cymbals and processed voices like some living building struggling to reach the sky high. Keeping the analogy, #1 could be the underground section of this life-pulsating tower, with all kinds of machines feeding electrical energy into the upper floors, maintaining a constant flow of information. #2 is the visible part of this living synthetic organism, it's where it all happens, where it processes and catalogues all information gathered, like a gigantic database, building floor over floor, trying to reach the infinite. Amazing stuff.»
- Pedro Leitão
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May 09, 2006
BROKEN MIRROR
Hi again.
Unfortunately, our local mirror closed down yesterday. In a few weeks we should have another one mirroring our catalogue locally, but in the meantime we can only offer our portuguese listeners Zip files of each release from the Inercia mirror (see last month NEWS about this).
We appologize for this inconvenience, people.
Peace,
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May 05, 2006
MUSIC THAT HAPPENS SOMEWHERE ELSE
• tube'|041 - Sticking Drops - Meteo EP
«"Music happens somewhere else". I came up with that phrase when I needed one for lezrod's myspace site and later found that somebody else conceived it for an article on William Basinski and Richard Chartier's self-titled on the german magazine DE:Bug. This phrase describes very accurately the new release from Sticking Drops, a two people project from Italy. "Meteo" is one of the most interesting releases I have heard through 2006, and indeed happens somewhere else.
Lorenzo Tomio and Nicola Luchese managed to ellaborate an album where darkness and detail result in an awesome sonic experience where time runs in a creepy mode and space is merely a bizarre consequence of that.
This mixture of organic timbres and fragmented/chopped guitars creates a constant tension that results in a very hypnotic and fascinating experience; "Meteo" manages to keep the focus very intensely as the structures work in a very narrative way, very storytelling and yet very abstract.
Test Tube always releases pretty amazing material, but I have to say this record was very special for me and I am very honoured and glad to get to review it.
Indeed an album that stands out.» - David Velez
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May 01, 2006
TEST TUBE MEMORIES - CHAPTER II
• tube'|cdr002 - v/a - tube'|017 ~ tube'|028
«A bit late but here it is: the second volume of the infamous test tube CDR's. Same as before, folks: special price for a round plastic disc with almost 7 hours of test tube releases for your enjoyment.
Also as before,
we will offer one handpackaged copy with every order from m¨c's shop. Alternatively, if you don't wish to buy any record from our sister label, but still want to have a copy of this compilation, we'll charge three euro (€3,00) to cover our p+p expenses.»
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