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Trance-derived melodies, murky industrial grooves, and all-consuming harsh noise attacks from Dedekind Cut. Created in transit between New York, Seoul, and Berlin and recorded between the fall of 2016 and the winter of 2017. Over 23 minutes, the release shifts from densely layered textures to subtle piano notes and hard-hammering beats, seemingly mirroring the drastic changes of the times in which they were conceived. With the help of Dirch Heather (modular synths), Elysia Crampton (piano), Mica Levi (dubbed piano), Jesse Osborne-Lanthier (synths), as well as Dominick Fernow alias Prurient and Death Grips drummer Zach Hill on percussion, Fred Welton Warmsley III reminds his listeners that now is not the time to give up. Warmsley left behind a career as Joey Bada$$'s producer and his previous moniker Lee Bannon to pursue a more experimental musical approach as Dedekind Cut. It's a conceptual entity that draws on creative collaboration and aims at gathering unique artists under a single musical vision. Amidst the cacophony, a distinctive voice can be heard. The Expanding Domain might sound bleak and unforgiving at first, but it also communicates a hope as well as a desire to resist. After all, there is a reason that this record was created as a loop.
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HOS 485LP
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Following a strictly limited tape edition of American Zen, Lee Bannon, aka Dedekind Cut, links with Hospital Productions for an expanded new vinyl edition, clasping a sublime bonus single collaboration with Alex Zhang Hungtai, who's better known for his maudlin pop moniker, Dirty Beaches. If you like your ambient music intangible and synaesthetically olfactory, huffable, you're encouraged to check this one without delay... American Zen finds its center in quivering, pensive drones and fractured small sounds, but is rent with an oceanic sense of scale, deploying splashes of distant percussion, extreme panned vocal snippets, and slowly escalating harmonic space perfused by crackling radio-waves and that intangible timbre of an old TV turned on somewhere, but you can't quite pick out its location. It unfolds at a glacial pace in five parts, crossing lines/waves comparable to Chino Amobi & Rabit's ultraviolent mixtape (2015), the nostalgic Americana yearn of Torn Hawk, and even The Caretaker's hallowed ether zones; perpetually out of reach, submerged or hardly there, but feeling as though he's close, breathing quietly in the background and watching you listen. In addition to the original five tracks, including the formerly tape-only "Folsom Lake 04", you'll now also find a rare outing from Alex Zhang Hungtai infiltrating the finely graded and diaphanous silhouette of "I'll Give You The World" on the final side, serving to complement and temper Dedekind Cut's broader strokes with fluctuating microtonal infidelities and a gauzier, anaesthetizing and almost pastoral atmosphere that's a real pleasure to drift off with. Excellent stuff, perhaps the most interesting of Bannon's releases so far. Cut at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin.
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