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Rogers, Derek
Goldtimers Tapes
General | Oct 2011

Reviews

HYPRK
Reviewed 2011-10-24
Austin, Texas based ambient musician. He has a massive discography representing all the best tape CD-R labels you could imagine. This release is a bit more diverse than his usual stuff—lots of drifting abstract jams with killer effects. This guy is going somewhere.
FCC CLEAN
RIYL: Tidal, Deep Magic, Quiet Evenings, The North Sea

*1. (10:02) A tribute to John Coltrane. Sharp-edged, staticy tides rolling in. Long blustery noise outro.
*2. (4:37) DAMN, the effects! Wah-wah and delay pedals galore, unwinding cords of sound which stumble forward in woozy waves.
*3. (2:01) Minimalist fluctuating chords. A low-key take on the same theme explored in track 2.
4. (11:19) Weightless ambient with a surface so smooth you could ice skate on it. Really picks up and gets interesting in the last 3 minutes.
5. (6:21) Dark baroque drone with a few reverberating piano chords and bird samples.
*6. (6:01) Delicate tiptoeing chord progressions.
7. (9:30) Eerie and suspenseful.
8. (5:20) Vintage film static, and uncertain synth progressions stuttering and flapping like newsprint in the wind.

Recent airplay

Temporal Pattern Iii
Songs: AkranDec 17, 2011
Temporal Pattern Iv, Temporal Pattern Iii
Zoom OutNov 14, 2011
Temporal Pattern Iii
Everything.Nov 13, 2011
Temporal Pattern Iii
razor's edgeNov 10, 2011
Temporal Pattern Iii
YOUTH DEMOGRAPHIC RADIONov 08, 2011
St. John Coltrane
lost and foundNov 06, 2011

Charting

2011-10-30 — 2012-01-01
Week EndingAirplays
Dec 18 1
Nov 20 2
Nov 13 3
Nov 6 2

Track listing

1. St. John Coltrane
2. Temporal Pattern Iii
3. Temporal Pattern Iv
4. St. John Fahey
5. Blinking Lights
6. Pulse Transistor
7. Temporal Pattern I
8. Temporal Pattern Ii