AM/PM - Also (12")
label . dreck records
release date . october 24, 2005
After AM/PM's critically acclaimed contribution to Süd Electronic's 'AM/PM & Lump EP', distributed and highly rated by Submerge's Mike Banks, Radovan Scasascia returns to his own Dreck Records imprint with this sublime 3-track-EP. The first two AM/PM releases (The Ends I & II) were keeping closely to the concept of constructing music exclusively from ends of existing records. This release here is conceptually looser, but immerses itself deep into the world of AM/PM, where perception continually shifts between warmer and darker atmospheres.
As many sounds still originate from the ends of other records, their diverse instrumentation, key and pitch result in AM/PM's signature micro-tonal disharmonies, reminding us that the world is not just black or white, with us or against us, but all-encompassing, rhyzomatic and constantly in and out of phase.
This newly defined territory is thoroughly explored with the extended ‘No matter whether’, a 12 minute track consisting of two notable parts. The first part establishes an environment of angular, drifting and floating planes – an exploded drawing in slow motion which repeatedly results in chance moments of beauty, warmth and discordance. Holding it all together is a well defined bass and rhythm-track, which forms the basis for a much more earthed second part, concentrating on a deep groove. ‘Tar in between’ is a calmer, more familiar and classic AM/PM piece, while ‘Even as we here’ takes us back to AM/PM's bipolar world of vast space and sumptuous density.
Distributed via Kompakt
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A1 is the perfect example how to build a mood in a minimal track. B2 as well. I am anxiously awaiting my record to arrive from juno. This type of minimal is very refreshing especially when you consider all of the laptop clickiness that seems to permeate the genre.