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- Date Released: October 15, 2002
- Genre: Electronic
- Style: IDM, Abstract
- Label: Mille Plateaux - Force Inc. / IRIS
The compilation that set off an electronic-music micro-movement.
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When it came out in 2000, the aptly named Clicks + Cuts compilation signaled a movement that found electronic artists pruning techno down to its most elemental parts. The little slivers of sound hardly qualify as beats, per se; they mark time more like mathematical points on a line, fixed in position but absent any real size that translates from the abstract to the concrete. The minimalist thinking borrows from certain strains of I.D.M. (intelligent dance music), but it's more concerned with the miniscule hisses and sighs of laptops whirring through ones and zeroes. From a distance, it sounds like an ambient mix of skipping CDs, grainy glitches, sinewy sine waves — the quotidian waste of hard-wired machines gone haywire. Turn it up, however, and Clicks + Cuts plays like booming club music sized for a microscope slide.
Opening with an ear-tickling tone pitched disorientingly high, Frank Bretschneider's "Kern" shimmies through a mishmash of metallic clangs and Morse-code ellipses. Waving a flag for sound design, snd's "Circa 1509" barrels over a bellowing bass tone angled to bend speakers around their edges. Tracks by Vladislav Delay and Pole lean toward the ghostly smear of dub, while the likes of Alva Noto suggest little lullabies without rising above a whisper. -
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| 01. |  |
Kern
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5:02 |  |
| 02. | |
Circa 1509 - SND |
5:06 | |
| 03. | |
Raute - Farben |
7:34 | |
| 04. | |
Synkopoint
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10:41 | |
| 05. | |
SpaB
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6:29 | |
| 06. | |
Koilinen - Pansonic |
4:34 | |
| 07. | |
Prototype N
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5:46 | |
| 08. | |
Shift - Skist |
5:48 | |
| 09. | |
Confused Bear Thrown Into The Sea
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2:04 | |
| 10. | |
Clairvoyance
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6:20 | |
| 11. | |
Unstabile
|
7:14 | |
| 12. | |
Pop
|
1:18 | |
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12 Total Tracks, 67:56 Total Length
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| 01. | |
Maschine - Ester Brinkmann |
8:04 | |
| 02. | |
Uberall
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4:59 | |
| 03. | |
Strange Fruit - Dettinger |
5:22 | |
| 04. | |
These Few Minutes - Autopoises |
4:25 | |
| 05. | |
I Won't Lie
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2:33 | |
| 06. | |
Loads Early Like Normal
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3:52 | |
| 07. | |
(Esta Gran Humanidad Ha Dicho) Ya Basta!
|
5:03 | |
| 08. | |
Matrix - Reinhard Voigt |
3:18 | |
| 09. | |
Rechannelled From Stereo - Thomas Meinecke's Framus Waikiki |
3:52 | |
| 10. | |
Sinecore
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4:51 | |
| 11. | |
Sans Titre No. 2 - Ihan |
3:56 | |
| 12. | |
Sonqizzmaster
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6:10 | |
| 13. | |
Comp Vier - Goem |
6:29 | |
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13 Total Tracks, 62:54 Total Length
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