([apl022]__normal_music_-_let's_do_really_strange_things_and_call_them_normal.nfo) . . .----+-- - ______________________ - +-----. | .rb! _/ _ \_ _ \_ \_ !022. | `-+ ___\____/ / X / / / . +-' .\ _ / / / /_____ : . / / / / / / _\ : / X / / / / / X / _/ _____ ______\____ \_ . ***\______/***/ /***********\______/*** . \____\ . . . . ... . . .:.. .... ... : ... .:.. ... :..: :..: : :..: :..: : :..: : :... : APL022 >> NORMAL MUSIC - LET'S DO REALLY STRANGE THINGS AND CALL THEM NORMAL [20.06.2004 | PARAPHRASING cLICKPUNK TRISTESSE] “Normal Music is the choice of music for Normal people” is the statement of this mutual project of the swedish designer Thomas Ekelund, the Zeromoon Labelowner Jeff Surak and the Puerto-Rican Raphael Isarri. “Normal Music” is not so normal as the name might imply - not just another boring laptop trio. They focus on merging real instruments, synths, bass guitar, autoharp, field recordings and record players to shape those many sound sources into “normal music” tracks. But what is this “Normal” all about? The referential review magazine “Vital Weekly” points it by claiming influences of Pan Sonic, Goem or Pole - a mixture between dubby, clicky rhythms in combination with rather noisy ambient fragments. The core is relatively dense, fleshy – if that's a suitable epithet - beats, at times slightly irregular and not easy to follow, bristling with electronic beeps, crackles, hisses, and what have you. Somewhere between the lines, or notes, to be precise, electroacoustic gratings, hardly perceptible ambient wafts or field recordings push their way through. From the track titles, one might consider Normal Music to be political or with a certain Punk attitude. There is indeed a musical approach to click-punk, as the beats are sometimes quite cold and heartless (“Migratory Patterns Of The Youth”) - detailed, clear cut-up beats and complicated, clicky crunches characterizes this whole release, whereas “Pills, Pills, Pills for Mental Health” is more of a slo-mo slacker click-dub, which is a totally different direction to “Machines startle me with Great Frequency”, which is more sort of industrial field-recordings. “Let’s Do Really Strange Things And Call Them Normal” is an exciting piece of work that evolves with every more bit of listening, it is a big appetizer of contrary music for contrary people, Precise placements of sounds and constantly evolving textures ensure that this release holds quite a few secrets for you, even when listening to it repeatedly Normal Music is all about rhythms and beats, with a distinctive, darker edge, where rich electronic textures, surface noise from vinyl and various unidentifiable sources, looped or seemingly random, form these five tracks of blissful beats and minimal rhythms. -------------------------------------------------------------- :: 6 tracks :: 22min 12sec :: 31.290 MB :: 01: Normal Music - "Machines Startle Me With Great Frequency" 02: Normal Music - "Pills, Pills, Pills For Mental Health" 03: Normal Music - "Migratory Patterns Of Youth" 04: Normal Music - "The Shroud Of Normal Music" 05: Normal Music - "Dentrite Frenzy" 06: Normal Music - "Caustic Teeth Drilling Exercise" -------------------------------------------------------------- [AUTOPLATE.RELEASES] APL001 VA - "Bauhaus" APL002 Andrey Kirichenko - "00.00" APL003 Danny Kreutzfeldt - "Furtherspace" APL004 833-45 - "Solar Cycle" APL005 Affective Disorder w/ Undacova - "Study Of A Ladybug On A Rope" APL006 VA - "Constructions for Andrey Kirichenko" APL007 Taavi Tulev - "Televiisor On Tuksis" APL008 Vultrapia - "Autopianotationalismasoschism" APL009 Dighom - "Vibrating Colours - Coloured Vibrations" APL010 Sable - "Dusk" APL011 Randomajestiq - "UnclassifiEP" APL012 Gultskra Artikler - "Gruppa Turistov" APL013 The Moglass w/ Andrey Kirichenko APL014 Off The Sky - "Studies of Lifeform In Transit" APL015 Johan Wieslander - "Gas" APL016 Fernando Lagreca - "Suave" APL017 Marsen Jules - "Lazy Sunday Funerals" APL018 Tlon - "Acoustic Lazy Dolls" APL019 Gultskra Artikler - "Gololed" APL020 VA - "Many Things Worth Living For" APL021 Konrad Bayer - Shall We Go To The Park? APL022 Normal Music - Let's Do Really Strange Things And Call Them Normal" -------------------------------------------------------------- [AUTOPLATE] Sebastian.Redenz..................................[organizing] Neeme.Oja................................................[php] Thomas.Ekelund...........................................[gfx] Benfay.............................................[mastering] Roland.Fiege.......................................[mastering] krill.minima.........................................[booking] -------------------------------------------------------------- AUTOPLATE is a THINNER sublabel for versatile electronic music. All files in this directory are hiquality 192kbps MP3s for your pleasure. It is allowed to listen, copy and burn this MP3 file for private purpose. It is not allowed to copy, sell, use this MP3 file for commercial purpose. Modifications of this MP3 file are not allowed. 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