A_Dontigny / Geisteswissenschaften
Album: | Geisteswissenschaften | Collection: | General | |
Artist: | A_Dontigny | Added: | Sep 2007 | |
Label: | No Type |
A-File Activity
Add Date: | 2008-06-15 | Pull Date: | 2008-08-17 | Charts: | Classical/Experimental |
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Week Ending: | Jun 22 |
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Airplays: | 4 |
Recent Airplay
1. | Jul 10, 2010: | Music Casserole
Turner |
4. | Jun 17, 2008: | Zikr
Tatline |
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2. | Jan 16, 2009: | Orangeasm
Tatline |
5. | Jun 16, 2008: | Emphysema For Emphasis
Koons |
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3. | Jun 18, 2008: | Baptism of Solitude
Turner |
6. | Jun 16, 2008: | Now's the time
Pruitt-Igoe |
Album Review
Craig Matsumoto
Reviewed 2008-06-05
Reviewed 2008-06-05
Experimental mashups of noise, dance electronica, and/or samples of normal/nice musics. Lots of glitchiness even on the catchier tracks. None of these short tracks will unsettle a KZSU-inured noise DJ, and a few barely count as noise, but there's a likeable mess-with-your-head quality throughout.
Many tracks slice-and-dice samples of real music, creating mutant collages (3,9,12,17). Others set "nice" music against noisy sounds ironically (2, which is a misfire; 7, 13)
Some tend towards cheesier electronica/jazz blends in a pop-Euro way (5, 11 (*FCC*), 15). A_Dontigny *is* European, so that makes sense.
Faves: 1, 3, 4, 8, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17
1- Hip-hop-like countdown, then a fast blur of spliced sounds, kinda cool
2- Awful smooth jazz overlaid with ironic noisiness. But it doesn't cancel out the smooth jazz enough. Avoid.
3- Cut-up cello tones, a nice choppy feel. Overtaken by sci-fi sounds later
4- Snaky jazz guitar, angular, untreated. Backed by a crumpling sound that grows.
5- Dramatic tones vs. tinny glitches and weird piano
6- Reverent deep bass tones, into tough clambering noises
7- Symphonic! Like track 2, it overlays "nice" music with noisy experimentalism, this time more successfully.
8- Keyboard sounds in spastic bursts
9- Noise intro, then a smooth-jazz song gets dissected. Messy.
10- Rolling guitar riff. Forest of electronics and percussion. Cool wind-down ending.
11- *FCC* many times, not advisable for airplay. Airy synth tones, some guy yelling/moaning
12- Clanky chaos and big buzzing buzz. Fast.
13- Warbly nostalgia classical music, warped, with techno insects flying about. Gets dense, crunchy.
14- Dark and twiddly. Cool percussion.
15- Bass buzz, some distant crackles... then, an electronica beat, a bit chill
16- Ghostly vowels, then a heavy beat and catchy synth riff.
17- Like a rolling guitar chord cut up and respliced into varying rhythmic patterns. Fast and glitchy, as if the CD player was breaking up on orbital re-entry
Many tracks slice-and-dice samples of real music, creating mutant collages (3,9,12,17). Others set "nice" music against noisy sounds ironically (2, which is a misfire; 7, 13)
Some tend towards cheesier electronica/jazz blends in a pop-Euro way (5, 11 (*FCC*), 15). A_Dontigny *is* European, so that makes sense.
Faves: 1, 3, 4, 8, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17
1- Hip-hop-like countdown, then a fast blur of spliced sounds, kinda cool
2- Awful smooth jazz overlaid with ironic noisiness. But it doesn't cancel out the smooth jazz enough. Avoid.
3- Cut-up cello tones, a nice choppy feel. Overtaken by sci-fi sounds later
4- Snaky jazz guitar, angular, untreated. Backed by a crumpling sound that grows.
5- Dramatic tones vs. tinny glitches and weird piano
6- Reverent deep bass tones, into tough clambering noises
7- Symphonic! Like track 2, it overlays "nice" music with noisy experimentalism, this time more successfully.
8- Keyboard sounds in spastic bursts
9- Noise intro, then a smooth-jazz song gets dissected. Messy.
10- Rolling guitar riff. Forest of electronics and percussion. Cool wind-down ending.
11- *FCC* many times, not advisable for airplay. Airy synth tones, some guy yelling/moaning
12- Clanky chaos and big buzzing buzz. Fast.
13- Warbly nostalgia classical music, warped, with techno insects flying about. Gets dense, crunchy.
14- Dark and twiddly. Cool percussion.
15- Bass buzz, some distant crackles... then, an electronica beat, a bit chill
16- Ghostly vowels, then a heavy beat and catchy synth riff.
17- Like a rolling guitar chord cut up and respliced into varying rhythmic patterns. Fast and glitchy, as if the CD player was breaking up on orbital re-entry
Track Listing
1. | Koons | 10. | Begriffsschrift | |||
2. | Pruitt-Igoe | 11. | Crowding Into The Behavioral Sink | |||
3. | Tatline | 12. | Holzwege | |||
4. | Aufbau | 13. | Turner | |||
5. | Die Frohliche Wissenschaft | 14. | All-Over | |||
6. | Queque Chose D'informal | 15. | Wirkungsgeschichtesbewusstsein | |||
7. | Color Field | 16. | Mathesis | |||
8. | Gutai | 17. | Crowding Into The Behavioral Sink (Jon Vaughn's Rondo Mix) | |||
9. | Recollection Of Similarity | . |