Friday, August 14, 2020

Marc Barreca - Music Works for Industry (1983)

 


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Tape loops, clattering percussion, droning synths, some propaganda-like spoken word, and a number of heavily warped instruments coalesce to form abstract, industrial-adjacent sounds that might be considered 'ambient' if they were at all relaxing.

Track listing:
1. Community Life
2. Shopping
3. Hotcake
4. Glass and Steel No. 1
5. The Urge to Buy Terrorizes You
6. Glass and Steel No. 2
7. Nerve Roots Are Uncontrollable
8. Music Works for Industry
9. Georgetown
10. Organized Labor
11. Vs Chorus


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7 comments:

  1. A favorite name from Palace of Lights and the Intrepid Music club, and one I didn't have: thankz!

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  2. This is surprisingly soothing.
    Thank you!

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  3. Sounds interesting, will give it a listen. I do have a request maybe you can fulfill: heard anything that sounds like a cross between black metal and Can, especially anything that potentially uses the atmosphere and guitar tone of black metal in Can-like organically-winding improvisational compositions?

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  4. Sorry, wanted to add that to my request that I'm imagining black metal compositions that develop like Can compositions - an improvised being where it's constituent parts of rhythm, riffage, and noise move with and away from one another organically.

    IF there's any black metal like that you know of, or anything close to it, I'm going to be very pleased. Thanks in advance!

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    1. That's a great question. Three bands come to mind: Aluk Todolo, Horseback, and Oranssi Pazuzu. Aluk Todolo is probably the closest to a black metal Can that I can think of, Oranssi Pazuzu kinda fits the bill, and Horseback probably doesn't but I'm already running out of ideas.

      Aluk Todolo: https://aluktodolo.bandcamp.com/album/finsternis
      Oranssi Pazuzu: http://opiumhum.blogspot.com/2016/08/oranssi-pazuzu-kosmonument-2011.html
      Horseback: https://horseback.bandcamp.com/album/the-invisible-mountain

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  5. Good God, this is unique! Thank you!!!

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