ascoltare - beam

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track listing : exo on ferrick/semjase in exclesis/asket’s ship/flatwoods/sky fishing

been a while since the world has heard from the electronic experimentalist ascoltare.
in fact the last time involved a seriously strange heavy duty 12″ split single on which various tv chefs were cutup and dissected to the sounds of unsettling ambience. while the record looked great, and was a fascinating concept, i cant deny that its not a record i visit that regularly.
thankfully this time around things are very different.
for this new basic black vinyl 5 track 12″ (limited to 250 copies i believe) is ascoltare revisiting the glory days of old school techno.
the music is, and i dread to say this word given the current white heat blog scene around it, minimal.
the perfectly structured beats are slight, with bass lines hidden away, but in a measure manner to make the walls move in all the right directions, over which are various layers of synths, fractured digital noise, warped vocal cutups, with even a reggae dub aspect due to some of the keyboard touches.
i would even go so far as to say that this is as conventional a record i have heard from the master of plunderphonics, but this is all comparative of course
instead, these 5 tracks (regrettably only available on vinyl - as i would love to have this in pure digital form ), in a more portable hi-quality mp3 form, hang a left over to the special bye-space page for 3 extra tracks that complete the abduction experience.

more detail : http://www.myspace.com/ascoltarebeam