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reviews: prostir is the most rescent ep of .at/on (holota anton) from kiev, ukranie, published by japanese netlabel -n (minusn.com) who had released very interesting material in the past such as andrey kiritchenko's scatter stars and coeval's distante.prostir is blessed with power and splashed with a small aura of innocence. the album starts very dramatically with the song that gives the name to the ep: prostir, a harsh song with incredible textures and pinning timbres that fight with each other through the entire track. the violence of this song establishes a relation with the liner notes, where hola anton makes emphasis in the economical disparity between africa and the g8 countries. the distorted vocal samplers suggest us radio and tv new developing a sense of hazard and urgency. x, the second track, is martial, like a march of pixels or grains in a harsh stormy surreal landscape. this tracks takes the record to a more rhythmical minimal moment. y is a song i personally feel is too descriptive for an album that is mainly suggestive. finally there is z which sets us back to the first minutes of the ep, where abstractness and eerie timbre-constructed structures, develop a claustrophic / agorophobic landscape where timbres and amplified surfaces violently drift and finally fade into sudden oblivion. prostir is a very interesting album that left me wanting more minutes of abstractness and tonal hell and less minutes of idm-like rhythmic structures. his previous release "univ_rse" was constructed in a more formal manner, and prostir is indeed a more risky and mature record in therms of concept and sound. as a reviewer i'd like to write about stuff that is more in the art / conceptual aspect of music than in the entertining side of music, prostir is mainly a conceptual / sonic art oriented ep, although it has some more formal musical values that i feel are distractive. prostir is a great album, but i feel the best of .at/on is yet to come. by david velez @ earlabs combined review of mn011 and mn012 japanese minus n label surprises us with an interesting compilation, as well as a release by one of the bands on that compilation. i have no idea who .at/on is, but perhaps he is from the ukraine, since 'prostir' means dimension in that language. four tracks appear on the cdr, three further ones are only available at the website. the music was all made with samples, vst instruments, synthedit, fruityloops and acid: all window programs alien to this apple eater. there are some political dimensions to this release, regarding the third world and dimensions to that. the four tracks i heard are great actually. loopy and noisy stuff, with sounds dropping in and out, voices, shortwave like sounds making small rhythms and such. clicks & cuts moving out of the ordinary. "movin' on" is the title of the compilation and as far as i'm concerned this is both the program for the label minus n, as well as a current state of mind in the field of clicks and cuts music. it has moved away from the pure techno related pieces from yesteryear, into music that has grown a lot since then. some of these pieces are still techno influenced, such as those by pero, shalma and salman or the very housy, luomo like piece by motor, but there is also the pan sonic like piece by g_n44f, jos smolders off beat rhythms, the rock drumkit by goem|fdw or the sample mishmash of claudia bonarelli and the dubby lod. besides some known names (and for instance in smolders' case, unexpected ones) many new names are to be discovered here, plus both releases are also available for free to download. by frans de waard @ vital weekly comments: とてもいい！ posted by masaya_sasaki - 2006.06.12 コメントしてください: |
[mn011] .at/on - prostir
01. prostir (03:59) - このmp3をダウンロード (192k, 5.49mb) 02. x (02:22) - このmp3をダウンロード (192k, 3.28mb) 03. y (02:31) - このmp3をダウンロード (192k, 3.48mb) 04. z (02:58) - このmp3をダウンロード (192k, 4.08mb) 05. atonsmpl* (vsti) - このプラグインをダウンロード (win, 1.75mb) 06. blackbox1* (vsti) - このプラグインをダウンロード (win, 3.05mb) 07. blackbox2* (vsti) - このプラグインをダウンロード (win, 2.83mb) すべてをダウンロード (zip, 24.3mb) カバーアート(見開き)をダウンロード (jpeg, 284kb) カバーアート(web用)をダウンロード (jpeg, 8.98kb) * windows用vstiプラグイン。このプラグインを使用したことが原因によるいかなる損害に対しても責任を負うものではありません。ご利用の際は自己責任で、「vstplgins」フォルダにインストールしてお使い下さい。「atonsmpl」には、使用時にサウンドファイル（.wavフォーマット。各自用意してください。）を読み込ませる必要があります。 リリース解説 by .at/on (訳 kengo miyazaki) ウクライナ語で次元、側面を意味する「prostir」は、このリリースにも含まれている、syntheditによって作られた自家製VSTインストゥルメントとサンプル音を使って作られている。それらはfruityloopsでトリガーされ、最終的にacidでミックスが行われた。 「prostir」はアフリカや第三世界に目を向けてもらうことを目的に制作された: g8の国々の平均寿命が77才であるのに対し、アフリカでは平均寿命が48才でしかない。 イギリス人の100%に安全な飲み水が供給されているのに対し、コンゴでは人口の45%にしか供給されていない。 25年後までには、世界人口の60%が水不足に陥る。 アメリカでは1,000人に対し561台の車が所有されているが、アフリカでは14台でしかない。 先進国の平均年収は27,854ドルだが、アフリカのそれは1,690ドルにとどまる。 地球人口の50%以上が、一度も電話を使ったことが無い。 3,110億ドルがg8から西側諸国の農家に流れている中、同じg8からアフリカに流れる補助金は130億ドルである。 |
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