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Let the chips fall where they may

by drtr

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semblance/ladybugs/book/fine line/heart attack/smells of gravy 17:28
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visitors to tea/dead bees/pleasing/[untitled]/pathe/fighting the patriarchy/greyskull 18:46
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fourteen/slang ten/fucking mess/windows home edition/off/children 17:20
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rave warehouse/kindness/Patrick Stewart/Mitre Peak/Glenda 10:38

about

"...There's people who will buy any piece of music simply because it emanates from some small-time cultural periphery - Scandinavia, the mid-West, or, in this case, New Zealand. Here's a good reason why this is a bad idea.

It's a series of devastatingly incompetent, lazily constructed electronic vignettes, gathered together into what can described only very loosely as 'mixes', as though the sum of the whole jammed together like a series of car-crashes would provide more coherence than the component pieces all separate. A fond hope, and a false notion.

drtr, the guilty party, is the extraordinarily obscure techno-de-plume of the only slightly less obscure New Zealand noise musician Rory Storm. He is probably best known for the vaguely great album 'F*** the Memescape' and for being the principal member of the now-defunct Rory Storm and the Invaders, apparently quite the proposition on a good night, mainly because he employed some very good musicians other than himself.

Here he ineptly struggles with a Roland MC-505 and a fuzzbox to produce these unlistenable pieces - you can't really call them songs, as such. Instruments drop in and out of the mix at random, there is no understanding of dynamics, and the production values can only be kindly described as lo-fi - in that much of it sounds as though it was recorded on a cellphone. As a whole it is, as one of the track titles baldly states, a 'f***ing mess', and the glimpses of skill that shine through the murk only underscore, rather than mitigate this fact.

Apparently, Storm describes this this as his 'happy, almost irresponsibly happy' album - in which case I would hate to hear his idea of grim, insurmountably grim. Quite why anyone would want to own this collection is beyond me. Still, the fact that it exists is an artistic statement of some kind, and that, I am sure, will please somebody - somewhere..."

quoted from Acetate magazine review, May 13.

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released June 2, 2013

R Storm: Roland MC-505, 2 x Korg Pandora effects units, Boss DD-5 delay pedal.

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