H.A.K. N°220_HALLMARK CARDS - JEFF KOLAR

HALLMARK CARDS

All tracks recorded, mixed, and mastered by Jeff Kolar
Design by Anna Katherine Peters
Released on-line by H.A.K. Lo-Fi Record
HAK220

Hallmark Cards is a hand-bent playback of Hallmark greeting cards with sound.
The personalized cards are converted into sentimental electronic instruments equipped with modified punch lines. Once open, the copy-righted audio material is exposed to circuit-bending techniques and physical compression. The resulting audio functions as a cover song.

http://www.jeffkolar.us/hallmarkcards

Jeff Kolar is an audio/visual artist working in Chicago, USA. His work is described as "speaker-shredding" (Half Letter Press) and "amusingly kitschy" (Music For Maniacs). His recent interests include cross-platform collaboration, low-powered radio, and live performance. Jeff is also the administer of Radius, an experimental radio broadcast platform.

www.jeffkolar.us




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JNN_N°097, THANATO TWIST & OLEG’S SOUND SYSTEM – Swing mastication

JustNotNormal

Recorded live & cut @ la ferme lá 07/05/2010 – Olivet, France
master @ Léon la Beauce 23/6/2010
Thanatomutsi VO2 & Thanatogushi ID play:
PSR48, DSR2000, TR606, Dictaphone, Pedals
artwork: Joe Baire

Mirror:
01 – Desert march
02 – Program change
03 – Glitchy-pitchy
04 – Noxious nuggets
05 – Soul delicatessen
06 – 80′s twisted Oleg’s revenge
07 – Whimsical resurection dub
08 – Nuclear nub
09 – Incantation
10 – Rising at the rill

Runtime: 38.21

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If the world of lo-fi IDM could find more oompf, this would be the place. A wealth of toys has been intergrated into these 10 tracks that will make your mind swirl and your body ache for more. Ofcourse it may just as well be possible that you’re not into such degraded toynoises. If that is the case, you certainly got lost and trapped in a world you needn’t be in.
Most likely you will thoroughly enjoy this recording of two giants in the world of experimental improv’ed music: Ayato and Kortane Cortex.

A review of their first album on Treetrunk records reveils this:
“Psychedelic blasts, vast explosions of noises, unbeat in the repetitions, celestial harmony torn. Plasma waves building the spatial scene of Bailarin noche. Slobbery beats and sweating melodies turn around our solar system. There’s no doubt ! The brain of the Thanato’s is lost in a somber meditation. Black hole. White noise. Ready to thrill on the drift ?”
This may as well have been the review of this current release; it is just breathtaking!
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