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VERTONEN - Fait a la Machine / Machines Domestiques

Format: pic-LP & CDR Label & Cat.Number: Crippled Intellect Productions CIP025 / Ratskin Rec. RSR034 Release Year: 2013 Note: amazing change in style for the long active project from Chicago...this is pure machine-sound, the "true industrial" music with hypnotic effect that reminds on VIVENZA or Russian retro-futurists like LINIJA MASS, with a focus also on the wonderful humming and droning sounds of mechanical devices... original recordings of: Hydraulic Hammer, Diesel Engine, Gas Turbines, etc.. lim. 300, handnumbered and signed, with some lock-grooves on the vinyl Price (incl. 19% VAT): €20.00 Warning: Currently we do not have this album in stock! More Info "40+ min of heavy machinery pounding, hissing, and vibrating, plus a bonus 63 minute CDR of the dronier side of machines at work. If you enjoy artists like Vivenza, Matt Heckert, early Esplendor Geometrico, or Chop Shop, this might be right up your alley. Edition of 300 hand numbered and signed." [label info] www.cipsite.net " "Industrial music for industrial people" was of course the slogan by Throbbing Gristle, and as such perhaps the only industrial band in the world. In a post-industrial world. But them too, willingly or not, drew inspiration from Russolo's 'Art Of Noise' manifest from 1913, in which was said we need music from machines, the sounds of the city. Using real machine sounds in music has been done a few times, and as such perhaps Vivenza from France was closest to Russolo - true fan of the futurists if I recall well - but never actually used machine sounds himself. A story which I probably recount every time I review something by Blake Edward's Vertonen project. Just recently - Vital Weekly 907 - we reviewed one of Vertonen's recent excursions in machineland (say otherwise from his interests in drone, musique concrete and noise), and already hinted at this 12". Following the various releases Vertonen did on the subject of machines, CDRs and cassettes, I think this is best work so far. On the LP they pieces are shorter than on his CDRs and cassette releases and perhaps more to the point as a result of that. Vertonen taped his field recordings at industrial sites and puts them together as collages of various machine sounds. It sounds like Vivenza - perhaps - but then with the real deal. I am also reminded of Matt Heckert or Barry Schwartz - that whole machine art scene that I saw a lot of in the late 80s/early 90s when it was hip. But here Vertonen is the lone gun with his recordings of machines. Like with all good industrial music, the suggestion here is to play this as loud as possible, and feel those vibrations in your body. The only best next thing is working on the conveyer belt your self. Side one ends with a piece of ventilator hum, which brings the industrial site in the ambient home. An excellent and beautiful picture disc. Plus on the bonus CDR we have a sixty minute ambient machine hum - 'computer server ventilation systems, HVAC, turntable motor, bart, diesel hammer and generators - blended together and making a more than excellent minimal sound tapestry. Loud but ambient, and always on the move it seems, building up and up and then, beyond the thirty minute break slowly taking matters down and down. A great symphony of machines indeed." [FdW/Vital Weekly]