Artists
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repetition|distract
Bonn, Germany
Repetition|Distract is an archival project organised by Felix to document the work of his invisible cat. Her music is created on travels to places like the Krim peninsula, Tangier, Caracas or Halifax, in the solitude of run-down hotel rooms, usually in the earliy morning hours with the windows wide open to let in the wind and the rain. Utilizing an assortment of clunky machinery, a primitive drum computer, accordeon and the sounds you can find in the throats of seashells down by the freight harbour she makes music that is noisy yet fragile. Brittle overtones of a gently distorted drone backdrop sing in and out of tune with small melody fragments in these not-at-home-recordings, which have been attributed to Dostoevskian (haha :D) characteristics.
Releases on plainaudio
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[PP015MX]
repetition|distract - recordings 07/2004 - 05/2005
March 2006
The debut album of repetition/distract reveals sheer beauty. Full of strange noises, drones, post-rock-influences, feedback and ambient soundscapes, it sometimes makes "darkside" look like a sissy. Get out those headphones and turn the lights off. The songs on "Recordings 07/2004 - 05/2005" are of a laid-back deepness that is hardly to be found in electronic music at all. When listening to the organic shifts, it's sometimes hard to believe that the whole piece was programmed without using an ...