Album Review
Blank – “Duden ” – [Eventuell]
Max Level 1/2/2006 12-inch, A Library
240 locked grooves on this LP, with 6 groups of 20 on each side. Blank is a trio of Frankfurt-based experimentalists who chopped up some of their recordings into sound bites, then cut those fragments into locked grooves on this 12″. Guitar strums, keyboard twinkles, feedback roars, electronic manipulations, percussive hits, etc? the record seems to be split roughly in half between “musical” sounds and bursts of noise. I checked out every one of the 240 tracks here and came up with some favorites, and I encourage you to do the same. Use them as music beds, play them solo for zen-like repetition, or mix with other locked grooves. By the way, this 12″ was originally constructed to be used by Blank themselves as instruments in live performance, each guy having his own copy to play around with. I’d love to hear the cool music/noise that must result when they do that.
you heard it 29 times on kfjc! most recently:
- 1061 days ago, Max Level played locked groove
- 3517 days ago, Goodwrench played A Locked Groove!
- 3623 days ago, Morris Minor played
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- 3868 days ago, abacus finch played
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