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| Dub Zap Standard Ed. 1 | format: CD - released: 1997 | label: Staalplaat You are kindly invited to buy a copy!!
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Two mini CD's. Both contained material for further remixing. In fact it was the next step after the first CD "Music For CD player". The basic material here was mainly rock and dance releases and the eventual compositions consisted for a large part of percussive sounds. On one occasion I have mixed the two discs (live) over four speakers. This is possible because the main structure of both disks are quite similar.
This album was co-released with a CD with remixes by Muslimgauze, RLW, Rehberg and Bauer and Radboud Mens and others. |
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| REVIEWS: Not quite like any regular CD release, as stated this is a new adventure for the listener and a new challenge for the composer. The Standard Edition CD has audio only done with the program Cool Edit on a PC computer by Ios Smolders, the man behind this release. And the idea is that you can use the audio to make your own composition with the programs that come on the CD, Cool Edit and Hammerhead for PC users and D-SoundPro for Mac users. This idea is interesting, especially for the audio is very varied on the Standard Edition. Loads of short tracks, sometimes grooves but never for long, you mostly hear processed samples appearing and disappearing. This is not exactly a party CD unless you want everyone out of the house, but very good for the patient listener and a very useful soundsource as well. Not to mention a brilliant concept! So naturally on the Pro CD there are selected artists setting an example of Dub Zap to the world, and unlike Standard Edition this is party music. We step straight on to a nice dancefloor with Self Transforming Machine Elves, after that we get an even more dancy example from Starfish Pool giving your feet no rest at all. Then LøSD give us pounding beats as an example, and the 4th example is nicely twisted by Dummy Run, very good. Then it is time to get down to earth and clean out your ears with a minimal very noisy rhythmic example from Radboud Mens, and speaking about minimalsm Captain Black is in for it too, fast pulses and very minimal indeed. Example 7 is by Twilight Circus Grub Sound System, grooves with noisy bits that doesn't leave anything much behind. Now the CD takes a totally different direction with The Square Root Of Sub, magnificent landscape of processed sounds, excellent example indeed. The same goes for RLW, very nicely built up into a great start/stop end. After that it is time for some digital terrorism by Rehberg & Bauer, completely digitally fucked up example, and completely brilliant. We end the journey with a very long, and very good example from Muslimgauze, hearing it you can't help but thinking "does this ever stop", but when it does you wish it didn't. (HB) Vital Weekly Not quite like any regular CD release, as stated this is a new adventurefor the listener and a new challenge for the composer. The Standard EditionCD has audio only done with the program Cool Edit on a PC computer by IosSmolders, the man behind this release. And the idea is that you can use theaudio to make your own composition with the programs that come on the CD,Cool Edit and Hammerhead for PC users and D-SoundPro for Mac users. Thisidea is interesting, especially for the audio is very varied on theStandard Edition. Loads of short tracks, sometimes grooves but never forlong, you mostly hear processed samples appearing and disappearing. This isnot exactly a party CD unless you want everyone out of the house, but verygood for the patient listener and a very useful soundsource as well. Not tomention a brilliant concept! Vital Weekly 147 |
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