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Minimalist re-manipulations of sound sources like modern dance pieces and japanese noise, decomposed into music concrete.
"Not altogether a new name, but this might actually be the first release under his own name. The title is a mystery to me, so let's take a look at the music: Stavöstrand is one of those powerbook wizzards, using different software to (de)construct sound material from probably any source available to him. In this case this has led to an hour long CD, which I think can be considered as one long track, with the understanding that it is not a fixed one: in the same way as for example Ios Smolders' 'Music for CD player', this track has 38 startcodes, which makes it possible to compose your own piece with the ingredients, provided by Stavöstrand. Or shuffle it, which is not possible on my old cd player. Strange thing is that the tracks get longer towards the end of the cd, and, in my opinion, more interesting. Where composition is sometimes lacking in the first 20 or so tracks, in the last 20 or so Stavöstrand creates mesmerizing pieces of cut ups, sine waves, pulses, noise and what have you. Which means that the cd gets better and better. All tracks, however, have an outstanding sound quality and some of them use extreme panning. All in all a very interesting piece of work, which is also very fit for doing remixes...." [Vital Weekly - MR]
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