Fancy something a little different to dubstep this week
..... read info below.http://electronicexplorations.org/podpr ... barian.mp3
MySpace URL:
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[01] - Vladislav Delay - Recovery Idea (Andy Stott Remix) - [Semantica]
[02] - Shed - Estrange - [Ostgut Tonträger]
[03] - Deaf Center - The Clearing - [Type]
[04] - Mount Kimbie - Maybes - [dub]
[05] - Starkey - Dark Alley - [Forthcoming ‘Planet Mu’]
[06] - Wahn - Collateral - [’Acroplane’ 021]
[07] - Neil Landstrumm - Begg - [dub]
[08] - 65D Mavericks - Beginnings End (A Tribute To Richard Polson) - [Surface Records]
[09] - Ebola - Portland 2CB - [’Acroplane’ 026]
[10] - Shackleton - In The Void - [Skull Disco]
[11] - Elite Barbarian - Tropic - [Front and Follow]
ELITE BARBARIAN - Exclusive ‘ELECTRONIC EXPLORATIONS’ Mix
01 - RADIAN - TRANSISTOR
02 - THIS HEAT - 24 TRACK LOOP
03 - CURVE - FALLING FREE (APHEX TWIN REMIX)
04 - PHOTEK - UFO
05 - ELITE BARBARIAN - GOING DOWN - [Front and Follow]
06 - EL-P - DEEP SPACE 9MM
07 - TECHNO ANIMAL - MONOSCOPIC
08 - MATMOS - HASHISH MASTER
09 - ALEX REECE - PULP FICTION
10 - FENNESZ - ONSAY
11 - THE FUTURE SOUND OF LONDON - SNAKE HIPS
12 - ELITE BARBARIAN - CLIPS - [Front and Follow]
13 - TWO LONE SWORDSMEN - AS WORLDLY PLEASURES WAVE GOODBYE
14 - TECHNO ANIMAL - HYPERTENSION
15 - AUTECHRE - EUTOW
16 - DOPPLEREFFEKT - Z BOSON
17 - ROCKETNUMBERNINE - CRETIN
[12] - King Cannibal - Aragami Style - [Forthcoming ‘Ninja Tune’]
[13] - Martyn and Marcus Intalex - After Seven - [Revolver]
[14] - DJ Madd - Untitled 2025 - [Forthcoming ‘NakedLunch’]
[15] - Ben Frost - We Love You Michael Gira - [Bedroom Community]
Elite Barbarian is the solo work of Benjamin Page and “It’s only when you get to the end that it all makes sense” is his new album.
One of the strongest electronic beep records you will ever hear, the new record from Elite Barbarian achieves a certain kind of ambience ordinarily/usually harboured by the most strung out and sensitive of electronic acts without using such barbed sonics.
Tickling like the insides of a ZX Spectrum and playing out like the soundtrack of several Atari 2600 games; over the course of 58 minutes the album takes the listener on a journey of unexplored confines electronic beats/beeps often coupled with crazed sick piano licks.
The author of the album is Ben Page who as a member of both Rothko and Rocket No.9 is a seasoned and accomplished composer of modern ambient extracts often emerging from improvisation and instinctive desires and trajectories.
The real strength of this record is the manner in which it achieves being both relentless and relaxed at the same time, tempered and tenacious in its brute meditation. As the atmospherics grow so does the intensity as sonic layers reminiscent of raindrops, pulses and bubbling machinery scour your consciousness almost feeling transient as it interrupts the flow of your immediate activities.
Listened to as a whole the album merges into one great body of work not strictly to be swallowed whole but to accompany any mindset or duty that requires a holding hand to assist concentration and clarity.
By the time it reaches the 16 minute climax “Let’s Go Back To Morse Code” you sense you are coming to the end of being subjected to some kind of subliminal intake and that it is actually quite possible that the beeps could well be pieced together Joe Bonham style to forge together some kind of alien message. You’re unlikely to hear this record at parties, only funerals.
Thesaurus moment: static.
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REVIEW: Headphone Commute
With a title over ten words, you’d think that Benjamin Page composed a post-rock or perhaps an ambient album, where track and album naming is something of an art form. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Page’s solo release under Elite Barbarian moniker, titled It’s only when you get to the end that it all makes sense, is an abstract and experimental electronic improvisation utilizing samplers and hardware synthesizers.
Listening to this music is a mild demented experience. In a humid summer haze, I put my ear against a hollow, cold, and sterile wall, to eavesdrop on the copulating circuit organisms, dying in the process. At the center of this bleeping pile is a solitary piano, protecting its modesty with ripped out coiled strings.
The sounds are kept and twisted against their own will, in a foreign confinement, away from their beloved ones. Only now and then, they are permitted to venture beyond the virtual barricades of their man-made asylum, for a brief glimpse of their abandoned soul. This album makes the first catalog addition to Front & Follow, a new Manchester based label releasing limited edition and attention oriented packaging.
The releases are not constrained to physical copies - digital editions are available from a number of online stores (iTunes, Amazon, Bleep).
Recommended if you enjoy laboratory electronica from acts like Mr. 76ix, Team Doyobi, Lego Feet, and Metamatics.
