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SHEFFIELD, COLIN ANDREW / JAMES ECK RIPPIE - Exploded View

Format: mCD (Minimax) Label & Cat.Number: Elevator Bath eeaoa051 Release Year: 2019 Note: MINIMAX mini-album with a great example of their unusual form of turntabilism (sounds derived from records but there are no recognizable repititions), complex and noisy... - "It has that great vibrant feeling of things buzzing, sparkling and flying about, sometimes staying in a place for a short time, sometimes a bit longer, but new elements are carried in, bashed on their heads and before you know melted down in the microwave into a nasty drone" - ed. of 200, digipack Price (incl. 19% VAT): €7.50 More Info "Ah, a minimax CD! I haven't seen one of those in quite some time. And if you are wondering what it is, a minimax CD is a CD with a small portion of music, usually, twenty-three minutes (but I know of instances were they are thirty) and the rest of the disc is transparent, which give a great effect for design. Elevator Bath goes to town with a fine digipack around it. It begs, of course, the question: why not a proper full-length release? We aren't told but for some reason, Colin Andrew Sheffield and James Eck Rippie found their piece of enough interest to stand by itself. These two musicians have been going for some time and in recent years have been working together quite a bit, culminating in releases together. They use turntables, samples and processing. Earlier this week, in a private conversation with a friend of mine I was complaining about turntablism, which is something that I don't care too much about. Mainly because of its rotating aspect, making a lot of sounds the same; even if you decide to play sandpaper. In the case of Sheffield and Rippie, that aspect is luckily not there. I would believe they pick up the sounds from the turntable and give it the good twice over in the sampler and whatever else they use for processing (be it analogue or digital) and the results are used in a nineteen-minute montage/collage of modern musique concrete. It has that great vibrant feeling of things buzzing, sparkling and flying about, sometimes staying in a place for a short time, sometimes a bit longer, but new elements are carried in, bashed on their heads and before you know melted down in the microwave into a nasty drone. There is quite a bit of dynamics in there, obviously, I would say as these men know their trade quite well, and that begs the question again: why not a bit more? Please?" [FdW/Vital Weekly] https://sheffieldrippie.bandcamp.com/album/exploded-view