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EMEGO 299LP
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Dismantling the acoustic to feed the electronic, Editions Mego presents Telepath, the new album by Material Object. Born out of a single improvised recording session with a lone violinist, Telepath is a startling album of future electronic music, resulting in an LP of unique and timeless tracks that reimagine a classic sound for an endless future. Boldly departing from his previous canon of largely "ambient" work, Material Object's Telepath renders itself out as something much stranger, something more spacious, more subtle and gradual. Moments of bouncing minimalism meet moirés of delayed pure tones phasing in and out of resolution, giving way to a series of strobing foreground gestures arranged and offset in disorienting landscapes which scatter themselves asymmetrically amongst crystal pools of reverb. Reveling in the creative dismemberment of the original source material, Material Object slowly and patiently induces the violin to undergo every category of torsion, pressure and rupture. Its vivid acoustic qualities pass over and across the event horizon of the digital domain. Shattering then crystalizing into points and coordinates, intersections, disjunctions, planes and reverberant figures. An uncanny geometry perceived only between the ears, at once dissolving and reconstructing itself. A hypnotic and time-dilated recapitulation of what's gone before as if looking back from beyond a mirror. When it finally resolves in the closing moments and returns you home, you realize you haven't really moved at all. Equally abstract, haunting and daring, Material Object's Telepath is a singular work that abandons all notions of genre. Erupting with a tension of opposites that unfolds as a truly unique story, told in four dimensions and draped in deafening color. Mastered by AtomTM. Cut by Andreas at Schnittstelle Berlin. Includes download code; edition of 300.
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NO 915CD
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Material Object, presents his first true (if such a term exists) live performance. True in the sense of being generated instinctively in the moment from resampled chunks of previous output sandwiched between unheard waveforms from a distant future whilst underwritten by voltage controlled rumblings from actual synthesizers than can be seen and touched and wrecked by roadies. Traversing known knowns and unknown knowns from drone to drone. Harvesting new and slightly less new artifacts of the digitaux variety and crash landing in the ghetto of the lysergic jungles visited by G@ng5tas of yesteryear, all for your personal enjoyment. Performed live at the Red Rattler in Sydney, Australia on April 16th, 2017 for the Strange Signals / House of Mince crews, the performance is slightly more than just the insane ejaculations of an unhinged mind, but a true insight into one of the Internet's least popular Twitter accounts.
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NO 913CD
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Last copy... Material Object, aka Andre Ruello, returns with Part II of his Artefacts Digitaux project. Picking up the baton where he left it at the conclusion of 2015's debut, Ruello takes derelict waveforms from a myriad of forgotten sources and processes them exclusively in the digital realm, again, once more and then reprocesses them for good measure. The resulting output has been pushed into a sonically unique place then arranged into six movements spanning the width of emotional landscapes from harsh, atonal noise to love-addled euphoria, all in the context of "Electronic Ambient". Six artifacts from the artist's mind to the listener's speakers - the 23rd audio adventure on the No. label.
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