ELEH - 'FLOATING FREQUENCIES / INTUITIVE SYNTHESIS VOL 1'

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• IMPREC125 - LP

  793447512525

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When ELEH's debut Floating Frequencies/Intuitive Synthesis I was originally released it was praised as a powerful piece of new electronic minimalism. Twenty years later the artist's legacy has grown while ELEH continues to hypnotize new listeners with time stopping music. Critics, fans and neurologists have praised the music of ELEH as aiding attention and focus while seeming to slow time. Eleh's slow change drones are a state of flow hypnotizing listeners into meditative focus. From the original packaging, "Pure Sound. Pure Volume. Pure Analog. Dedicated To La Monte Young" ELEH began in 1999 as an exploration of analog synthesis, emphasizing low frequency difference tones and other resonant acoustic phenomena. ELEH highlights the physical presence of sound as it has been inspired by the physical world. There is also something ‘cathedral-like’ and cosmos-inducing in the sound constructed by ELEH. This audiophile quality presentation of ELEH's debut album was mastered by Tom Eaton at Sounds And Substance and manufactured at Optimal in Germany for the lowest possible noise floor and the highest analog resolution. Packaged using a 5th color metallic shimmer ink on solid black board stock. "Nuances of sound turn symphonic." - New York Times “ELEH’s sounds move by stealth and are sculpted from the world rather than from ego. Eleh is not a personality; Eleh is an idea about sound. ELEH forces you to contemplate the cosmos and your place in it. “ - Gramophone "ELEH demonstrates how a single amplified gesture delivered just so can reveal the inner workings of an entire cosmos." - Tony Herrington/Wire “Floating Frequencies/Intuitive Synthesis more than lives up to the mythic status that ELEH has ascended to. “ - Brainwashed "ELEH's music electrifies whatever space it engages. With the flip of a switch, it exposes the ways in which all space is, potentially, electric." ~ Frieze "The stuff that Eleh sets in motion from whatever electronic sound generators he/she deploys represents a measured and methodical paring away of all that might appear superfluous, baroque and rococo. Each of the tracks here consists of just a handful and discrete (and discreet) but highly charged sound events that emerge, overlap, recede and reverberate at critical frequencies over extended durations. At certain crucial points this approach serves as a formula for opening a portal what David Toop has referred to as the dark void, that spectral realm magicked into being (or exposed by) the drone, in which audio apparitions and chimeras dance through smoke and mirrors, suggesting the existence of occult planes and dimensions, multiple other realities, worlds within worlds." (Tony Herrington in The Wire) 

Tracks

1. In The Ear Of The Gods 2. Tone Phase 1 For 2 Guitars & 4 Oscillators 3. Tone Phase 2 For Guitar & 5 Oscillators

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EAT LIGHTS BECOME LIGHTS - 'ROTTERDAM IS MY TOKYO'

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• FC66 - BOOK W/ CD

  5061041822544

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This one aligns nicely in a number of ways. One of label head Dom’s final full length releases after all these years, ties in with what might just be the final one from the mighty Eat Lights Become Lights also. This is one staggeringly glorious, epic opus with which to return to the fray for Eat Lights…. Right from the start of the album’s planning stages, main man Neil Branquinho anticipated this record was to be as key on the eye as the ear. We had long since planned an accompanying book of his own photographs to be paired with the music within its packaging. However, as the record came together it soon became apparent that its length (nigh on 70 minutes) was impossible to fit onto vinyl so -hellbent on not wanting to edit down- we opted for CD. So what you have here is all nine pieces in their full entirety, free of edits and all the more wonderful for it, accompanied by the promised, equally wonderful book of photographs taken by Neil as the album was being created. Quite where I begin to describe this one… Easily the best record of his career, full of his trademark motorik, krautrock leanings certainly, but that’s just a springboard to some gigantic tangent which he then veers off. Krautrock Rave? Kosmische floor fillers? Heavy Motorik Disco? Teutonic Techno? Whatever, put simply, this is just epic and makes for quite the aural journey. That you have photographs to gaze at as you listen makes this one quite the assault on all the senses! To these ears, this could easily be presented as a box set of 9 12” singles- every track is not only a banger but more than worthy as A sides in their own rights. Following recent massively successful support slots for The Orb and Pye Corner Audio in his hometown Newcastle, if this does prove to be Neil’s final record, to go out on a bang doesn’t begin to cover it…. An edition of 250 A4 packages, be quick!

Tracks

01 The Last Of The Old Time Dancers 02 Super Surf 03 Loved Up 04 Electric:Electric 05 Slow Light Filter 06 Invocation 07 Vertical 08 Electric Lullaby 09 I Told The Stars About You

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