te Issue 1 : March 2003

Living Ornaments - Klonten

Label : Scarcelight Recordings
Catalogue number : SLR18
Review format : CD

Release date : 2004


New release on Scarelight Recordings from Living Ornaments.


"chriettitulear" rings through your ears, by dropping a garbled mulched vocal which welcomes you to the party, just in time for the beat to rattle its way in.
Spiralling beat strikes are smoothly layed over a warm piano meldoy, which gives off an eastern vibe. It makes you vision a small electronics market, deep within the side streets of a major city, the light bussle of the crowds mixes with the murmurings given off from the power surging all around. Good stuff.

Super processed glitch crunch beats drag and scratch you into "diewertjeblok", crazy track names all around. Developing in the background, an amiga style theme tune gives out a supressed call through the haze of electronic fuzz that has created itself all up in the place,listen carefully and concentrate.
"Edwinrutten" is an acoustic lightshow blowing up behind your eyes, its a one man party, and guess what, you are not invited. As buckets of static pour down the icy building, thudding beats bounce along in time to the visuals, but who is attempting to speak to you through the distortion? You will have to find out yourselves.
Atmospheric storylines in a track. Cool.


"Harmensiezen" drops you into the mindset of a drunken courtesy droid, if only he hadnt had that last Sump oil and Redbull he would have been ok, but its chaos inside his small aluminium face. Listen in and try to help. "Henkmouwe" is the droid waking up the next morning, his sensors overloading, as his tiny processor attempts to recollect what happened the night before.
Barraging data slides into place, as waves of fuzzy static reel into the microphone port, giving off a squeaky microscopic animal like call,but its ok, the information is all slotting into place. That will teach you, naughty robot.


' Klonten ' is a tiny experimental journey through the plastic speaker house that Living Ornaments live in. Full of life and put together with tiny glowing chopsticks,the intricate craftmanship is all good. Definetly worth tracking down.


Sam


 

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