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FAT HARLINGEN - Black

Format: 10inch + CDR

Label & Cat.Number: Beta-Lactam Ring Records mt015

Release Year: 2002

Note: one of the earliest releases on Beta-lactam was this obsure 10" (+ additional CDR with two more audio- and one quicktime video track) with very repetitive, hypnotic, loopy-rhythmic structures, from slow & subtle to powerful spheres.... lim. to 150 copies, silkscreen cover, we re-found 2 mint copies !!

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Und schon wieder ein bizarrer Newcomer auf BLRR, wo kommen die nur alle her? FAT HARLINGEN jedenfalls kreieren dunkle, schwerfällig-rhythmische, aber einnehmend-treibende Instrumentalstücke. Hyperminimaler Hypnotismus, handgespielt. Dazu gibt es noch eine CDR mit Audio- und Video-Stücken, die musikalisch in eine völlig andere Richtung gehen (musique concrete / field recording – Material, sehr gut arrangiert!)

“ ‘Black’ offers 2 sidelong tracks (and one short epilogue) of minimalist aggression which builds towers up and tears playhouses down. Like old Rhys Chatham and Glenn Branca with lashings of Justin Broderick and/or Steve Reich and/or those repetitive Michael Gira bits at the ends of Swans songs thrown in, each piece rises and swells, pulse by pulse, until a giant golem of music encases everything in its shadow and is finally sent off to do the bidding of its master ("go bring me rare records!"). This is virtually a double 10" as each piece seems to have its own charm on 45 or 33. Fat is Phat! An edition of 150 numbered copies on audiophile vinyl. Silkscreened cover and insert with bonus CDr“. [press release]