this is the voice of re:mote induction.Friday, August 29, 2003
Vromb Mémoires Paramoléculaires
- just thinking about the new vromb album rayons being considered as his fourth full length i wonder how the CD Mémoires Paramoléculaires fits in there. Jeux De Terre would be the first album, Le Facteur Humain the second, and Episodes the third. though Mémoires Paramoléculaires is limited to 700 copies, so perhaps as such it does not count as an album?
-regardless. for years vromb had only released jeux de terre and le facteur humain (along with a few long gone 7"s). which established an elusive and seductive reputation for the french canadian musician. his distinctive industrial rhythms, slow and throbbing with a certain trance inducing property. with that news of a new vromb release became cause for celebration. something that was entirely anticipated.
-the problem then became reversed. vromb instead of teasing us with rare albums has flooded the vromb market with 3" CDs, 10" vinyl, and interstitial releases of all kinds. so that a sense of saturation is in some ways attained. particularly with an album like episodes, which is presumably regarded as the third full length release, there is too much material - the album has its moments, but it becomes such a glut, that it is actually a little tiresome.
-which makes things problematic when it comes to le tourne-disque and mémoires paramoléculaires. let alone the even more recent split with Szkieve and the locomotive 10". i've always meant to give mémoires paramoléculaires more time, but after episodes it has been diffcult. though i always felt it wasn't as bad as some people perhaps felt. though it does have to be said mémoires paramoléculaires is a more difficult release to some degree.
-mémoires paramoléculaires is the stripped down vromb sound, perhaps more suited to the experimentation of hushush than the expectations developed for his releases on ant-zen? to be sure all the vromb trade marks are there, throbbing strobes of helicopter blade rhythms, forming a kind of industrial trance. but the sound featured here is more minimal, as though there has been more use of filters employed. the sound is more airy, more diffuse, with an element of particulate/granular impressions washing through the body of sound. the result is that mémoires paramoléculaires is more subdued, less about the overt moods, and more about the subtle atmospheres that result.
- just thinking about the new vromb album rayons being considered as his fourth full length i wonder how the CD Mémoires Paramoléculaires fits in there. Jeux De Terre would be the first album, Le Facteur Humain the second, and Episodes the third. though Mémoires Paramoléculaires is limited to 700 copies, so perhaps as such it does not count as an album?
-regardless. for years vromb had only released jeux de terre and le facteur humain (along with a few long gone 7"s). which established an elusive and seductive reputation for the french canadian musician. his distinctive industrial rhythms, slow and throbbing with a certain trance inducing property. with that news of a new vromb release became cause for celebration. something that was entirely anticipated.
-the problem then became reversed. vromb instead of teasing us with rare albums has flooded the vromb market with 3" CDs, 10" vinyl, and interstitial releases of all kinds. so that a sense of saturation is in some ways attained. particularly with an album like episodes, which is presumably regarded as the third full length release, there is too much material - the album has its moments, but it becomes such a glut, that it is actually a little tiresome.
-which makes things problematic when it comes to le tourne-disque and mémoires paramoléculaires. let alone the even more recent split with Szkieve and the locomotive 10". i've always meant to give mémoires paramoléculaires more time, but after episodes it has been diffcult. though i always felt it wasn't as bad as some people perhaps felt. though it does have to be said mémoires paramoléculaires is a more difficult release to some degree.
-mémoires paramoléculaires is the stripped down vromb sound, perhaps more suited to the experimentation of hushush than the expectations developed for his releases on ant-zen? to be sure all the vromb trade marks are there, throbbing strobes of helicopter blade rhythms, forming a kind of industrial trance. but the sound featured here is more minimal, as though there has been more use of filters employed. the sound is more airy, more diffuse, with an element of particulate/granular impressions washing through the body of sound. the result is that mémoires paramoléculaires is more subdued, less about the overt moods, and more about the subtle atmospheres that result.
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