As heard on their recent Insubordinations netlabel release, they take an approach firmly rooted in the clanky, fluid, theoretically rigorous yet sonically elastic techniques of European free improvisation.
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The group Diatribes mixes percussion, piano, and software in the interest of sonic exploration. And the dub feel is nowhere as pervasive as on “Ovate,” in which flanging repetition into extended fade-outs gives some needed heft to the bippity melodic line ( MP3). Just listen to “Deltoid,” which has the bleeping spunk of Pac Man in heat it’s kicked up a notch above average 8-bit goofiness thanks to a swaying, sideways-motion rhythm ( MP3). The realms collide on Simon Mattison‘s Leaves, a six-track collection on the MP3 Death netlabel ( ). The latter is a nostalgia-infused computer music, one in which the rudimentary sounds of early arcade games are employed to make blippy, often happy-go-lucky tunes. In dub, a simple snare drum can open up like a flower, and rim shot can ricochet like a SuperBall. The former is the Jamaica-born body of studio techniques that put groove-heavy soul music through an echo chamber, elevating percussion elements into vapor trails of hallucinogenic effects. If ever there were two lo-fi sounds destined to meet, they would be dub and 8-bit. More info on Eluder (aka Boise, Idaho-based Patrick Benolkin) at /eludist. The vinyl texture is just a foundation, above which Eluder places elegiac tones, soothing embraces like the organ modulations of “Drift With Me” ( MP3), which eventually peaks out like some brilliant sun coming over a distant mountain, and the more atonal “Moon Plea” ( MP3), a thick pool of gorgeous dissonances. Truth be told, though, all four of these pieces are of recent vintage. From an initial listen to Drift, you’d think you’d discovered some ur-drone, some ancient (well, in pop-music terms) album that predates today’s drone-rich ambient-music community not just by decades, but by several significant generations of recording technology. This static, this noise, is a scratchy, rough-hewn thing, immediately summoning mental images of fuzz-encrusted turntable needles and fingerprint-coated LPs.
The static in the background is at times as loud as anything in the foreground. There’s a texture to all four tracks of Eluder‘s Drift (Archaic Horizon) that suggests the music was copied - surreptitiously, perhaps - from some rare, dusty old vinyl record.
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