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- Date Released: January 1, 1996
- Genre: Electronic
- Style: Leftfield
- Label: Warp Records
An oft-forgotten Warp classic
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We Say...
One of the great, often overlooked albums in Warp's catalogue, Clean Pit & Lid was the work of Seefeel's Mark Clifford, the second of only two LPs he released under his Disjecta alias. Like Seefeel, Clean Pit and Lid is suffused with drones and metallic shimmer and underpinned with aching dub bass, but the mood here is often heavier and harsher. "Kracht" hammers away at headsplitting distortion until, as if by necessity, the white-noise spray becomes strangely soothing; the slower "Gammi" uses its midrange as a kind of balm to calm the effects of its shrieking, squealing high end.
It's not all so pummeling, though. "Conviction Hic" weaves a meditative spell with metallic, Gamelan-inspired timbres; "Cheekchops" employs stuttering hip-hop breaks and eerie steel-drum melodies that anticipate the Knife's Silent Shout. Throughout it all, a muted quality maintains, as though all the sounds had been sourced from Nth-generation tape dubs and run through banks of spring reverb, shrouding everything in cavernous, charcoal atmosphere. It's even possible to hear the rumblings of what will come to be known as dubstep, a decade later, particularly in the tribal lunge of "Smokehead" and the bloody lurch of "Gammi," both of which sound like blueprints for Shackleton's blackened, claustrophobic minimalism. -
They Say...
Given how Clifford was clearly progressing towards an extreme style of stripped-down techno the longer than Seefeel went on -the influence of friend/remixer Aphex Twin being often quite apparent -- it's no surprise that in his Disjecta guise he continued pursuing that particular goal. Clean Pit and Lid on the one hand is arguably derivative and all too apparently a Warp Records release, favoring the combination of clean atmospheres and sudden rough beats and sonics that Aphex himself very much made his own. Opening track "Gammi" sounds like something straight off of the On EP or I Care Because You Do, if not something from, say, an early Mu-ziq album as well, and that's just one example of many. There's the shuddering, industrial strength rhythm of the quite appropriately titled "Kracht," for instance, or the deep semi-chimes, easily imagined as being processed from other sources, that begin "Sudden Squeeze." At the same time, Clean Pit is an enjoyable listen for what it is, with plenty of moments where the sense of shoegaze-into-minimalism Seefeel made its own carries through the new, explicitly all electronic setup Clifford favors. "Are You an Echo?" is quietly lovely, its soft, simple melody and upfront but still barely there rhythm creating a perfectly inspired atmosphere, added to by the additional synth notes that appear some minutes into the track. The playful "Cheekchops" is another good example, at once winsome and sprightly and just mood-setting enough, a bit like an electronic steel drum band from the year 2150 playing a touch unobtrusively at a party. The best way to approach it is to simply play and enjoy -- it's not like Radiohead's just-as-obvious cloning of the Rephlex and Warp catalogs for Kid A is any less of a treat either, after all.
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| 01. |  |
Gammi |
7:48 |
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| 02. | |
Conviction Hic |
5:27 |
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| 03. | |
Kracht |
5:29 |
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| 04. | |
Cheekchops |
6:00 |
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| 05. | |
Pit |
3:17 |
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| 06. | |
Smokehead |
5:25 |
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| 07. | |
Are You An Echo? |
4:54 |
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| 08. | |
Sudden Squeeze |
5:12 |
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| 09. | |
"Is That Really It?" |
7:15 |
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| 10. | |
Timorous Bitster |
3:18 |
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10 Total Tracks, 54:05 Total Length
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