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Runtime: 28'29''
«French musician La Fresto is no stranger to test tube. He's been following and reviewing our releases almost since the beginning, and now he's at the other side, submitting his most recent work under a new alias: Con 7.
'Japanstoryboardformulaoneracing', in short of a better title, is a collection of lo-fi electronic dance tracks. By using only a small spectrum of samples and sounds, La Fresto creates almost skeletal but effective beats. There is no fat here. This is raw clicks'n'cuts for the new millennium.
Each track features completely new samples, all precisely layered on top of the first one. Sometimes we get the impression that this is another random work, the disturbed mind of a sample head put to use on one more derivative collage, but that is a wrong impression. This grows, slowly, making space under your cerebelum, launching sinewaves from time to time, helping you to organize your mind. Noise also has some moments here. Good moments, I mean. Typewriters typing broken typos on 'Formula'. Broken engines mixed with geek techno. Audio tape being maimed without mercy. Screaming fields of sonic mess, for sure. And it finishes up with rather intensely drones. Weird shit.
Conceptual? Maybe, maybe not. Interesting? You can bet your old PC on that.»
- Pedro Leitão |
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• Story ........................................................................................ |
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[7'01'' • 9,64Mb • 192Kbps] |
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• Board ....................................................................................... |
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[4'29''' • 6,16Mb • 192Kbps] |
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• Formula .................................................................................. |
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[4'15''' • 5,84Mb • 192Kbps] |
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• One .......................................................................................... |
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[3'17''' • 4,52Mb • 192Kbps] |
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• Racing ..................................................................................... |
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[5'10''' • 7,09Mb • 192Kbps] |
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• artwork ................................................................................... |
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[PDF-Zip • 2,27Mb] |
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• all tracks + artwork ................................................................ |
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Reviews:
«Algumas das peças de Japanstoryboardformulaoneracing, projecto na área da música electrónica do artista francês Con7, parecem mais esboços para memória futura que trabalhos rematados. Apesar de, a espaços, parecer enveredar por caminhos muito batidos desde meados dos anos 90, sobretudo nos aspectos formais decorrentes do uso minimalista da lo-fi electronica, o som apresenta no entanto um surpreendente ar de modernidade, projectando-se no futuro. Num género compósito de synth-pop, click'n'cuts, ambient, noise, minimal electronica, experimental computer music, techno e o mais que se consiga identificar ou aparentar, em que abundam propostas de contornos mais trabalhados, não será porventura dos projectos mais arriscados nos seus propósitos, mas também não se pode dizer que desmereça um ouvido atento, curioso e descomprometido. Sobretudo, vale o esforço de regressar a cada nova passagem, porque a dado momento surge a grata impressão de se estarem a ouvir sons que se haviam esfumado da vez anterior. Pontos decisivamente a favor serão a forte sugestão visual, com algumas notas de florescência na cor, o despojamento formal e substancial, e a coerente articulação dos milhares de sons servidos por Con7 em Japanstoryboardformulaoneracing.»
- Eduardo Chagas / June 18, 2005 |
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©1977 Rolls Royce/Found on Internet.
©2005 aeriola::behaviour
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©2005 LaFresto
©2005 test tube
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