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01. DEAS, CAM - Exercise 1
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02. DEAS, CAM - Exercise 2
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03. DEAS, CAM - Exercise 5
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ARTIST
DEAS, CAM
TITLE
Time Exercises
FORMAT
LP
LABEL
THE DEATH OF RAVE
CATALOG #
RAVE 022LP
RAVE 022LP
GENRE
ELECTRONIC
RELEASE DATE
5/18/2018
Time Exercises
is a complex study in amorphous polymetric rhythms by UK artist
Cam Deas
for The Death of Rave. His first LP composed solely for modular synths and computer, Cam's follow-up to the acclaimed
String Studies
(ALT 018LP, 2014) marks a headlong tilt from acoustic to electronic spheres with a staggering effect resulting from meticulous research and process. It sounds as advanced as
Xenakis
or
Roland Kayn
superstructures, with the rhythmic displacement of
Fis
or
Autechre
, and with a grasp of slippery, mind-bending timbral dissonance comparable to
Coil
and
Rashad Becker
records. Cam's six
Time Exercises
form both a bold break with -- and an extension of -- the avant, folk, blues, and outernational traditions that he's worked to deconstruct and fluidly syncretize over the past decade. In the past four years he's stepped away from the guitar as a compositional tool, turning to electronic hardware in a focused effort to consolidate myriad tunings and meters with a precision that had previously eluded him in the acoustic sphere. Severed from the tactility and sentimentality of instrumental inflection, Cam's disembodied music plays out a thrilling dramaturgy and syntax of alien dissonance and disorienting rhythmic resolution. Harmonic shapes as densely widescreen as those in Roland Kayn's
Cybernetic Music
(1995) roil in unfathomable fever dream space, where massed batteries of synthetic percussion swarm like an orchestra of
Cut Hands
in viscous formation, and where polychromatic mentasm figures converge like cenobites laying siege to Rashad Becker's utopia. On
Time Exercises
Cam articulates a synthetic musical language that speaks to the listener in myriad, quantum tongues awaiting to be deciphered by keen ears everywhere. It's an outstanding record for lovers of forward-looking but deeply rooted electronic music. Master and cut by
Matt Colton
at Alchemy.
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