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ARTIST
TITLE
Pose Plastique
FORMAT
LP
LABEL
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OTRLP 011LP
OTRLP 011LP
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
7/14/2017
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Andrew Hargreaves (The Boats, Tape Loop Orchestra) presents his striking first works for dance with Pose Plastique; the unrequited, roiling musique concrète score to choreography by Belgian dancer Anaïs Ureel. Pose Plastique marks bends and loops in time as the first release under Andrew's government name since 2010's Avant Garde for ONO, following a period of belligerent industrial rhythms and abstracted electronics with a much more refined sense of bio-kinetic movement captured within stark, echoic space. Pushing himself beyond usual comfort zones, and using a kinetograph score of movements which was effectively illegible to Andrew, the results of Pose Plastique reveal a keen sensitivity towards supple and super spacious sound design, eschewing any sort of "incessant pounding", as he initially feared he was supposed to, in favor of a series of diffused rhythmic triggers and physical gestures that mirror elements of Ostgut Ton's works for dance, Masse (OSTGUT 026CD, 2013), as much as Jeff Mills's most abstract techno navigations and the plonging, weightless meters of Bernard Parmegiani's seminal GRM works. As these things go, the commission never fully manifested. Anaïs ended up disenchanted by dance (not due to Andrew's music) and eventually moved to New Zealand. Fast forward a few years and Andrew made the decision to edit the recordings for this 31-minute release, simultaneously offering encrypted instructions for movement to any willing bodies, while its free-floating sequence of rhythmic and tonal structures act as a hugely absorbing listen in their own right. It's perhaps testament to Andrew's gifted, mutable compositional skills and musical vision that Pose Plastique works in its own right. By his own admission, Andrew's not really a dancer, but he's clearly attuned to what makes abstract dance music tick, and to the integral connection between living bodies and machines, and the way they've become conditioned by electronics ever since the explosion of avant-garde electronic music in the '60s, to the impulses of disco and new wave, and its contemporary application. RIYL: Tony Conrad, Demdike Stare, GRM, Emptyset. Mastered and cut by Matt Colton; Comes on green vinyl; Edition of 300.
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