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Quality Hotel reviews

Diese CD der Mutek Posse hat einen ziemlich eigenwilligen Hintergrund. Die Teilnehmer des Festivals 2002 wurden gebeten während ihres Aufenthalts in Montreal ihre Hotelzimmer in Studios umzuwandeln und die Tracks, stellenweise in Kolaborationen, dann an Mutek weiterzugeben. Gesagt, getan und mit dabei sind die eh schon befreundeten Radboud Mens, Janek Schaefer, Timeblind und Stephan Mathieu, die hier in einer Serie von Liveaufnahmen eine extrem schöne, schlillernd weitläufige, ambient knisternde Platte mit 7 Tracks vorlegen, die klingt als wäre das Hotel, in dem sie waren, der ruhigste Platz auf der ganzen Erde. Nahezu ein Kloster für Elektroniker. Am besten zu hören wenn wirklich jeder Sound der nach Musik klingt einem irgendwie standardisiert vor kommt.

(€€€€€) Bleed in de:bug 2003.10.

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This CD by the Mutek Posse has a rather unique background. Participants of the festivals' 2002 edition were asked to turn their hotel rooms into a studio and to give the resulting tracks, some of them colaborations, to Mutek. Said and done, here we have Radboud Mens, Janek Schaefer, Timeblind and Stephan Mathieu delivering a series of 7 live recordings making up an extremely beautiful, gleamingly extensive, crackling album which sounds as if this hotel would be the calmest place on earth. Almost a monastery for electronic musicians. A perfect listen if every sound reminding you of music somehow seems to standardized.

(€€€€€) Bleed in de:bug 2003.10.

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