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DUNDEE LIVE - BANDS TO WATCH!!

BOX-Evilbox Live CD


The project of Dundee's avant-electronic pioneer Neil Mcintee, this is a world of the unexpected and of musical extremes. If you go to one end of the scale, you can witness a performance that might sound like a dozen jumbo jets powering up in an enclosed aircraft hangar or 1000 angry vacuum cleaners without an off switch. But, at the other end of the scale, there's this live performance that is seriously listenable and, to the electronic music fan who likes it a bit more out on a limb, particularly palatable. With just two lengthy tracks, the first is a comsic sound study that covers a wide variety of soundscapes, textures and actual sounds, ranging from the more spacey and spacious side of avant-garde electronic compueter music through deep, dense drones of epic proportions, to unnerving layers of electronics that are worthy of anything on the legendary Cluster album "Cluster 2". With assorted sonic sources and the occasional clanking rhythm, this is deep, dark, dense and yet utterly hypnotic electronic music that, if you're in the right frame of mind, will have you hooked for the duration. The second track strays more into the realms of "noise-as-music" as slow-motion slabs of electronic sounding sources begin to buzz angrily above assorted electro-percussive backgrounds and yet the whole thing still retains that air of cosmic fascination, the layers moving in, over and around one another so that nothing is allowed to stand still, and whether you're loving or fearing what you're hearing, it's inexorably hypnotic. From passages that sound like someone's trying to wrench a door off its hinges with an electric drill performed in slow motion density to the sound of a storm-force legion of driving drones, this is altogether musical adventure at its most dramatic, often harsh, sometimes cosmic but always this thick fog of searing electronic wind surrounding you like a shroud. For the musically adventurous electronic fan, this is entirely different music that provides something into which you can really sink those teeth - not that you'll have any left by the time you've finished listening.

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