Continuous Hole

DREW DANIEL(MATMOS、THE SOFT PINK TRUTH)と、USノイズ帝王JOHN WIESEによる2018年にGILGONGOからLPのみリリースされていたコラボレーション・アルバムがCOLD SPRINGよりCD化!

インプロヴィゼーションとコンクレートを融合させたという本作は、プリミティヴなリズム、絶え間なく変化するマテリアルで構成されたエレクトロニック・ミュージックとなっています。

Matmos Drew Daniel and Sissy Spaceks John Wiese recorded their first collaboration, Continuous Hole, over the course of a decade, spanning from 2003 to 2014. Using no sampling or MIDI sequencing, the duo constructed a tightly arranged set of rhythmic glitch pieces that perfectly fuse the playful sensibilities of the early-2000s Tigerbeat6 laptop IDM scene with Wieses mastery of precise, nearly cinematic sound engineering. The duo sculpt finely tuned static bursts into gated, panned rhythms, creating a sort of audio strobe effect in stereo, and every second is filled with distinct details, from slivers of trapped voices to splintered timbral shifts. Following the flickering propulsion of "Abhorred Shears" and the scurrying antics of "Scramble Suite," "Progress Bar" is more of a musique concrete horror collage, with microscopic edits of harsh noise giving way to a suspenseful organ-like drone, then combusting into a violent attack at the end. "Obv" starts out strangely cartoonish, with cheap electronic drums that sound like animated hammers bonking away, but it mutates into a disorienting, storm-like vortex, with traces of cartoon sound effects being incinerated within. "Done It" has a more pronounced rhythm, resembling a glitchier, higher-definition Throbbing Gristle, and its somehow both overwhelming and filled with enough space to observe everything thats happening. "Sleek Disorder" works a deformed bassline and suggestions of breakbeats into its fractured pulse, ending up a mind-blowing fusion of rhythmic noise and juke. "Surprise" steps away from rhythm, ending the album with a grotesque bit of pulling, stretching, and screeching. Daniel and Wiese have been highly creative, heavily conceptual figures in experimental music for decades, and Continuous Hole still sounds like nothing else in either artists vast catalogs. The very definition of a hidden gem. ~ Paul Simpson