VAINIO, MIKA / PAN SONIC - Behind the Radiators

Format: 7inch

Label & Cat.Number: Touch Seven TS 06

Release Year: 2008

Note: 6th in the Touch 7"-series, full colour cover, edition of 500

Price (incl. 19% VAT): €7.50

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"The 6th release in the TOUCH Sevens 7" vinyl-only LTD ED series. No legal downloads of these tracks are available. Finland's MKA VAINIO (of PANSONIC) continues the Touch series with an absolute stunner. The crackle & fire of raw analog used as a voice. This series is a non-digital statement that cannot be applied to digital formats - the sonic texture, the use of a locked groove, the A & the B. The label chose not to specify the RPM, encouraging listeners to experiment with playback options & personal preferences. Artwork & photography by Jon Wozencroft." [label info]

"... Both productions feel brilliantly tailored to the format, forging a language out of rich, crackling layers of hum and minimal popping rhythms that flirt with the illusion of being a particularly beautiful and freakish occurrence of surface noise. The A-side is especially evocative of this, structured around a stumbling mid-tempo loop and a chilly swell of sustain and airflow tonality. As with so much of Vainio's best work, this is a recording that's at once clearly rooted in forward-thinking electronic music, whilst vividly drawing on vintage sonic elements and analogue instability. Flipping over, the companion piece operates in a similar fashion, although the beat seems to modulate in a fashion that would have you believe it's straying out of time, attracting micro-rhythms fabricated from crackle textures. The end result sounds a little like an Alva Noto record that's been pressed up on some mucky, ramshackle run of vinyl; or perhaps even the first Opto album by Noto and Opiate's Thomas Knak. In any case, Behind The Radiators is another compelling triumph for Touch's singles club, and it's one which exhibits a real understanding and love for the format. ESSENTIAL PURCHASE!" [Boomkat]

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