re:mote voices

post-concrete - i recently got a compilation of chinese artists, which i understand is the first of it's kind. a collection of young experimental musicians from china, covering a range of contemporary and challenging styles across two discs. just looking at the page for the label, post-concrete, the series of images leading to the content is pretty smart.

anne westphalen - everything else - another 12" i've been listening to recently. from what the label says about the release i expected something else, it talks of the poetry of westphalen, about this 12" stems from a previous 7" which featured quotes, and how this 12" does as well. i some how was expecting some electronic mix of sound and words. but in fact there is only the one quote, and it comes across as brief and insignificant, which is unfortunately something that could be said about the music. while i guess this release on the SueMi label is inoffencive it does come across as a little bland really - a downbeat techno influence, with hints of dub sensibility. which is perhaps a shame, though on the other hand, maybe i'm not the target audience for this berlin/prague based label who seem to deal in "online music - offline vinyl", with which this is their first 12" release.