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BAKER, AIDAN - The Spectrum of Distraction

Format: do-CD Label & Cat.Number: Robotic Empire ROBO098 Release Year: 2012 Note: epic "monster-track" consisting of 96 tracks (!) that are automatically played in shuffle mode - so every listen is different - based on collections from 18 different percussionists (who worked for bands like SWANS, KILLING JOKE, SLOWDIVE, GODFLESH & JESU) enriched with BAKERs bass & guitar-work... a genius, innovative work !! Price (incl. 19% VAT): €13.00 Warning: Currently we do not have this album in stock! More Info "Absichtlich so aufgebaut, dass die CD auf Shuffle gespielt wird und jedes Mal ein komplett neues Hörerlebnis bietet, orientiert sich AIDAN BAKERs Monsterwerk ,The Spectrum of Distraction" an ZAPPAs ,Xenchrony"-Technik und adaptiert sie mittels CD und mp3 für das digitale Zeitalter. Sage und schreibe 96 Tracks verteilen sich über zwei CDs und erschaffen mit jedem Hören eine neue Soundlandschaft. Die Stücke erstrecken sich über Sekunden oder Minuten: halluzinatorische Traumlandschaften verweben sich mit nervösem Noise, dubbigen Passagen und relaxtem Jazz; mit psychedelischen Grooves zu Industrial Gekrache; mit Hip Hop Bop in Sludge und allem, was das weite Musikfeld noch anzubieten hat. Bekannt als Herzstück vom Schwergewicht NADJA bekommt AIDAN BAKER hier Unterstützung von bekannten Schlagzeugern, die sich in Bands wie SWANS, THE JESUS LIZARD, SLOWDIVE, KILLING JOKE, GODFLESH, JESU und vielen anderen Sporen verdient haben. Das alles schmeckt wie die unwahrscheinliche Zusammenkunft von narkotischen Neurosen und Büchern aus der ,Choose Your Own Adventure"-Serie; die Erhabenheit des Albums wird nur noch von seiner Weitläufigkeit übertroffen. BAKER versammelte sechs Stunden Material von 18 verschiedenen Percussionisten, zu dem der dann Gitarre und Bass einspielte und die sechs Stunden auf 96 Track herunterdestillierte. Im wunderschön Doppel-CD Gatefold mit den kompletten Sets der einzelnen Sessions als Downloadcode. // Specifically designed to be played on shuffle and yield a completely unique experience each time, AIDAN BAKER’s audacious monsterpiece, The Spectrum of Distraction, takes a nod from Zappa’s technique of ’xenochrony’ and runs it though the digital age via the shuffle aspect of CD and MP3 players. 96(!) tracks spanning two discs create an incredibly varied landscape through each listen, with pieces ranging from just a few seconds to over seven minutes, there is no shortage of diversity here. Hallucinatory dreamscapes weave into frantic noize into dubby passages into chilled out jazz into psychedelic grooves into an oppressive industrial crunch into a hip hop bop into almighty sludge dirges and almost everything else the kitchen sink offers can all be found somewhere within this bold beast of a project. Start to finish / through and through, nowhere else is it possible to experience anything quite like AIDAN BAKER’s truly enthralling creation, The Spectrum of Distraction. Well known for being a core part of prolific heavyweights NADJA, AIDAN BAKER is backed here by an impressive array of notable drummers who’ve cut their teeth in SWANS, THE JESUS LIZARD, SLOWDIVE, KILLING JOKE, GODFLESH, JESU and many more. All shimmering through an unlikely pairing of narcotic neuroses and the Choose Your Own Adventure series, the loftiness of this concept album is thankfully only matched by the project’s vast content. Founded in the late 2009 when AIDAN BAKER began soliciting drum tracks and loops, he ending up with roughly six hours of material from 18 different percussionists. Alternately in Toronto and Berlin throughout the winter of 2010, he then recorded guitar and bass to go along with these drum tracks and from that initial six hours edited the mass of content down to the 96 slices (spanning two hours) that appear on this pair of discs. The edits allow for the album to be played on shuffle so that each listen is different and it is then that The Spectrum of Distraction comes into full light and glory. Take from it. Expanded full-sets of the individual sessions are simultaneously available within a free digital download card included in the entire pressing." [label info] www.roboticempire.com