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Outland

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Bill Laswell and Pete Namlook

 
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An hour-long beatless exploration of the complexity of the overtone.

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    With veteran New York producer Bill Laswell acting as godfather to a host of genre-dissolving Ambient activity in the middle '90s, it was inevitable his path would cross with Pete Namlook’s. Outland’s massive compositional arc explores the complexities of the overtone; the weird resonances of throat-singing, sourced in the Mongolian capital Ulan Bator, are picked up by Laswell’s filtered bass and rolled into an hour-long beatless epic. Transitions between sections are masterfully handled by these two magicians of the mixing desk: the piece opens and closes with Mongolian vocals, oriented around a heavily-processed, pure electronic core. While ‘Trance’ was becoming 1994’s buzzword for a kind of ignorant nightclub flirtation with Eastern trappings, Outland genuinely sounded like an out-of-body experience. The duo’s Psychonavigation, recorded the same year, is an equally engrossing venture into darker dub zones.

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