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album cover MATHIEU, STEPHAN Frequency Lib (Mille Plateaux) cd 15.98
THIS IS CURRENTLY OUT OF PRINT OR OTHERWISE UNAVAILABLE TO US AT THE MOMENT, SO PLEASE DO NOT ORDER IT. SORRY.
Just as Christian Fennesz transformed the canonical rock icons The Rolling Stones and The Beach Boys into sublime electronica-glitch perfection, Stephan Mathieu has pillaged the 'public domain' archives of the 20th century to create his own digital deconstruction of historical canons. It's quite possible that he could have gotten away with using recordings whose rights are held under legal lock and key, as his DSP reconfiguration is so broad as to render his tracks almost unrecognizable from the original. Never stating what the original pieces are (although he does include a really obvious Smashing Pumpkins reference... but done very well), Mathieu has transfomed those pieces into 25 small sketches of layered digital reversals, downpitched rhythmic crawls, sublime glistening tonalities, and white-hot glitch crackle. At times he emphasizes the age of the original, by manipulating the surface noise of the vinyl (or possibly, wax cylinder), others he pulls from the three notes from some High Lonesome guitarist, or the ethereal quality of an unknown vocalist. Mathieu does not present these digital reconfigurations without order. Rhythmic loops and discreet harmonies ripple throughout Mathieu's album, making for the best Oval-sounding record since Oval made "Diskont 94."
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MATHIEU, STEPHAN Frequency Lib (Mille Plateaux) lp 13.98
THIS IS CURRENTLY OUT OF PRINT OR OTHERWISE UNAVAILABLE TO US AT THE MOMENT, SO PLEASE DO NOT ORDER IT. SORRY.
Just as Christian Fennesz transformed the canonical rock icons The Rolling Stones and The Beach Boys into sublime electronica-glitch perfection, Stephan Mathieu has pillaged the 'public domain' archives of the 20th century to create his own digital deconstruction of historical canons. It's quite possible that he could have gotten away with using recordings whose rights are held under legal lock and key, as his DSP reconfiguration is so broad as to render his tracks almost unrecognizable from the original. Never stating what the original pieces are (although he does include a really obvious Smashing Pumpkins reference... but done very well), Mathieu has transfomed those pieces into 25 small sketches of layered digital reversals, downpitched rhythmic crawls, sublime glistening tonalities, and white-hot glitch crackle. At times he emphasizes the age of the original, by manipulating the surface noise of the vinyl (or possibly, wax cylinder), others he pulls from the three notes from some High Lonesome guitarist, or the ethereal quality of an unknown vocalist. Mathieu does not present these digital reconfigurations without order. Rhythmic loops and discreet harmonies ripple throughout Mathieu's album, making for the best Oval-sounding record since Oval made "Diskont 94."

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