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- Date Released: June 8, 1998
- Genre: Electronic
- Style: Electronic Experimental
- Label: Mille Plateaux / Iris
A quietly radical European counterpart to Stateside post-rock innovations
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We Say...
Drafting Can's impossibly funky drummer Jaki Liebezeit and Mouse on Mars' programmer/pin-up Jan St. Werner onto his Teutonic dream team, in 1998 Marcus Schmickler created an underacknowledged masterpiece of hard-drive composition, a kind of quietly radical European counterpart to Stateside post-rock innovations. Track titles like "Flicker," "Gloop" and "Hintergrund" ("Background") will hip you to Schmickler's capacity to inspire low-key, slow-burning nocturnal introspection, but they don't do justice to just how sharp and ambitious his record is. Guitars, cymbals, glockenspiel and all manner of crinkly, crackling static noises get manipulated and processed on top of Jaki's tight pulse, wrangling disparate files and levels of fidelity into articulate, powerfully melodic form. This is a record that hypnotizes collages into acting like songs, and vice versa.
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They Say...
Like its predecessor, Pickup Canyon, Pluramon's second effort seems quite focused on getting only just close enough to any one genre to suggest an affiliation before quickly retreating into a haze of other stimuli. Render Bandits turns that haze into a dust storm at points, with a sometimes daunting buzz of electronics and blasted acoustic treatments nearly (that is to say, not quite) obliterating the music's sturdy rhythmic foundation. A much fuller-bodied recording is the result, with tracks such as "Tel Bell," "Syth," and "Hintergrund" matching the very best of far more widely lauded post-rockers such as Tortoise.
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Tel. Bell |
7:30 |
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| 02. | |
Syth - (Fender mix) |
6:20 |
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| 03. | |
Formant |
6:09 |
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Gloop |
6:19 |
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Flicker |
2:41 |
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| 06. | |
Hintergrund |
7:48 |
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| 07. | |
Irenes Angel |
3:42 |
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| 08. | |
Fibonacci Express |
3:03 |
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| 09. | |
Res |
3:47 |
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09 Total Tracks, 47:19 Total Length
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Credits
- Steve Bohn - Guitar // Marcus Schmickler - Strings // Marcus Schmickler - Engineer // Marcus Schmickler - Mixing // Jaki Liebezeit - Cymbals // Jaki Liebezeit - Drums // Jan St. Werner - Chords // Jan St. Werner - Picadongs // Pluramon - Main Performer // Anouk Azar - Glockenspiel // Anouk Azar - Sound Effects // Heike Sperling - Artwork // Frank Dommert - Multi Instruments
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