| Mehr, Markus / On |
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| Album: | On | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Mehr, Markus | Added: | Nov 2012 | |
| Label: | Hidden Shoal | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2013-03-09 | Pull Date: | 2013-05-12 | Charts: | Classical/Experimental |
| Week Ending: | May 12 | May 5 | Apr 28 | Apr 21 | Apr 14 | Apr 7 | Mar 31 | Mar 24 |
| Airplays: | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Jul 22, 2021: | The Sunset Life (rebroadcast from Apr 10, 2013) Flaming Youth | 4. | Jan 02, 2014: | Top 30 X of 2013 part ii Tunnels | |
| 2. | May 28, 2015: | The Sunset Life Flaming Youth | 5. | May 10, 2013: | Cathartic Anomalies Only For A While | |
| 3. | May 07, 2015: | The Sunset Life Only For A While | 6. | May 09, 2013: | The Sunset Life Duck Became Swan |
| Album Review |
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| DJ Away Reviewed 2013-03-06 | ||
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Ambient/experimental/noise A magnificent, terrifying work of sonic magic. Markus Mehr (of Germany) has found a meeting point between two very different types of experimental music: the ambient soundscape and harsh noise. The resulting sound is a dynamic dance between peace and violence, where the two dancers unite and separate at their volatile will. Released on Hidden Shoal, no less. 7 is FCC questionable, but all other songs are wordless and FCC clean. Favorites: 2, 4, 5, 8. 1. (2:07)—Harsh noise. Glitchy, bassy, barely there beat. Sounds of various softly played stringed instruments appear and vanish. 2. *(6:47)—Machine noises fuse with lovely drone washes. Morphs into a looping pattern with faint horn sounds. Falls into chaos, snaps back together. 3. (4:40)—Fades in slowly, and then BAM, a distorted hurricane of a drone that from there disappears and returns without warning. 4. *(8:54)—A melancholy loop that feels comforting at the beginning and becomes downright orchestral and epic by the middle. 5. *(9:12)—Foreboding, assaulting intro. Bursts into a drop-dead gorgeous, looping motif that features both horn sounds and something that seems like wordless, wailing vocals. 6. (1:20)—Loud, glitchy, percussive. A malfunctioning robot learning how to boogie. 7. (2:42)—BACKGROUND FCCS? Recording of monks chanting, background recording of woman shouting, electronic noises and tones. 8. *(9:43)—Water sounds, plinking sounds, soothing drones, piano. Very faint drums. Noise and deep bass creep in around the halfway mark and then burst in without warning. Builds and builds; this is EPIC. And then fades. | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | I'm Gonna Make You Love Me | 5. | Duck Became Swan | |||
| 2. | Flaming Youth | 6. | Olympia | |||
| 3. | Barcelona Waltz | 7. | Monks On The Beach | |||
| 4. | Only For A While | 8. | Tunnels |