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01. STRATEGY - Public Voyeurs
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02. STRATEGY - Relix
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03. STRATEGY - Fossil Data
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04. STRATEGY - Tower of Babble
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ARTIST
STRATEGY
TITLE
Information Pollution
FORMAT
LP
LABEL
FURTHER RECORDS
CATALOG #
FUR 101LP
FUR 101LP
GENRE
ELECTRONIC
RELEASE DATE
3/18/2016
180-gram LP. Includes printed inner sleeve. Like some ingenious combination of
John Cage
's chance operations and the numbers station data stream captured on
The Conet Project
,
Strategy
's
Information Pollution
immerses listeners in baffling sonic waters. It's a riveting work that converts the enigmatic effluvia of shortwave and dispatch radio chatter into thrumming, static-riddled clouds of ambience. An undercurrent of unease wafts through
Information Pollution
's four lengthy tracks, as barely audible molecules of aural junk never meant for public consumption are repurposed into an unsettling strain of inverted chillout music.
Information Pollution
was born out of restraints. After moving into a new house with little space to set up his studio properly, Strategy (Portland producer
Paul Dickow
) could only work with a few devices at a time. He'd acquired an old Akai reel-to-reel tape deck with tube preamps from his father, who'd recently cleaned out his own studio. Using radios, homemade effects boxes, and the tape deck, Strategy recorded these sound collages live to tape, without touching any synths or deploying any samples. "I discovered a lot of ghostly shortwave sounds," Dickow says, "but also ambulance, parking, and school bus dispatch channels on forgotten frequencies that I think might have been once used for police or broadcast TV." The result falls somewhere between
Philip Jeck
's eroding turntable symphonies and
William Basinski
's poignantly decaying
Disintegration Loops
. Dickow explains that he uses the term "Information Pollution" to classify "any spam, broadcast saturation, junk mail, invasion of unwanted information [that enters] the socialemotional public realm." As with the material Strategy created with cassette tape loops on his previous Further release, 2015's
Noise Tape Self
(FUR 096LP), "there's a sense of machines having their own life, beyond our control." But instead of chaos, Strategy has produced an artful alchemization of discarded tones. Although
Information Pollution
sounds unlike anything in Strategy's sprawling catalog, he likens the album to his activities within Portland's '90s/early-'00s experimental/noise scene. The reason he hasn't issued anything in this style till now? He wanted to wait until he was sure he'd "given it the necessary rigor and study." With this album, Strategy has shaped the random output of radios into a gripping document. As Dickow puts it, "This is the audio equivalent of photographing the oil slicks that appear in the puddles of parking lots."
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