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Review on Ipsomat Legrand
By Unknown
In green we find Reznicek and Co. Side A is the title track by Reznicek and Kubin - a shifting piece which moves from a clicking/white noise soundscape into a distorted voice with pings and chuggachuggas in an almost cheesy beat, then a more regular clockwork plingy beats that gradually accretes bloops and bleeps and loops to become quite dense. It draws back as a voice says something and rebuilds, pulling back again to the end with big descending tones and a long shimmering buzz. Unstructured but/and interesting. AA sees Mancha produce two mixes - the main connection with side A seems to be some of the percussive loops and a few sounds: the "Ensemble mix" does shift around - the first part opens with possible bird sounds and a church ringing, with a deep rumble which develops into a pulse.
There a simple sqrls and sudden noise eruptions, a white noise pulses. Then fast forwarded talking briefly before stripping right down to clicks and warbles and wahwah turntabling, briefly gathers pace before dropping right back to clicking and the church. Much simpler is Elastic mix that layers lots of different loops - clicking, whipping, big tones, hollow knocking - and plays around with them, adding voices and piano at points, and maintaining a tentative mood before the tones build and take the end.