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william fowler collins - Perdition Hill Radio
Lovers of Dark Ambient's shadowy recesses take note: this latest Type release brings the haunted New Mexican soundworld of William Fowler Collins to the world - and it's one of the most relentless collections of dense and harrowing midnight music you'll likely have the pleasure of hearing. Flicking through this record - skimming the surface of these crumbling, derelict sonic constructions - feels like intercepting a shortwave broadcast from the hereafter. It all points towards something sinister and most unwholesome, but to give all this context, it's worth noting that Collins' talent has been incubating for some time: his CV tells of years spent studying electronic music at Mills College under the tutelage of iconic figures like Pauline Oliveiros, Alvin Curran and Fred Frith (having also performed and collaborated with Matmos, Ikue Mori and Brightblack Morning Light in the lead up to this album's making). This musical background combines with the harsh, desert topography of Collins' Albuquerque home in rendering a sonic portrait of Americana's dark underbelly, beginning with 'The Hour Of Red Glare', whose stormy introduction - full of thunderclap noise surges - announces the album's nefarious intentions. Immediately, images of a guitar-slinging, American gothic counterpart to the Nordic doom merchantry of Deathprod and Svarte Greiner spring to mind; its maudlin intensity and dust-devil dynamics serving as a powerful introduction, teetering on the verge of outright black metal - imagine Xasthur wearing a stetson, if you will. 'Grave Robbing In Texas' offers a slightly more introspective slant on that sound, retreating into a quivering mass of tape murk and snarling sustains that's likely to give your ears friction burns if you spend too much time with it. The vast 'Dark Country Road' soon comes along, opening with a lighter, more outward-looking sound, initially howling harmoniusly like some ghouls' choir before retreating into an uncomfortable near-silence around the eight-minute mark. During this stint, static hangs in the air while unidentifiable clanking, scratching and whining from various obscured field recordings creeps under your skin. At over twenty-one minutes this might be the most engrossibg piece of music on the album, but it's arguably the most striking too - luring you away into its uncanny nightscape. There's still plenty more to come, however: you'll hear a more vicious, metallic take on Tim Hecker's saturated drones during 'On Perdition Hill' and even better, 'Slow Motion Prayer Cycle' grinds away like a decrepit old phonograph cylinder worn down to nothing. Finally, you can hear a few strands of sunlight starting to break into the mix during closing track 'The Ghosts Of Eden Trail'; warm, major-key tones shimmer across its expanse before eventually evaporating into the harsh New Mexico wind from whence it came. An immense and fiendish album - ESSENTIAL PURCHASE.
DIGITALIS
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Predictably immense frequency headf*ck from the absolute master of this sort of thing: Mika Vainio.
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Lord of the Underground: Vishnu & the Magic Elixir
Alien8 Recordings
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Electronic Ambient Remixes Four: Selflessness
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A soundscape album based upon a Cosey Fanni Tutti sound piece recorded for Resonance FM in 2003
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Silhouetted, impressionistic black metal ambience from William Fowler Collins.
Type Recordings
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Root Strata
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Total darkness channeled into long waves of sound.
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ON (SYLVAIN CHAUVEAU AND STEVEN HESS REWORKED BY DEATHPROD)
Your Naked Ghost Comes Back At Night
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For all intents and purposes, the great 'lost' Deathprod album...
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Type Recordings
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A genius mix of vocal pop, Gamelan, drones and incredible songs from Fred Thomas.
Type Recordings
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Easily one of the standout LP's of year: haunted loops, half-remembered lullabies and layered embers of sound.
Type Recordings
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Now available for the first time in over 15 years and featuring brand new artwork.
Type Recordings
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Incredible Kosmische variants situated somewhere between the early 70s and the early 10s...
Type Recordings
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Full-Length CD edition of this harrowing album for fans of David Lynch, Philip Jeck and Leyland Kirby...
Type Recordings
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Beautifully melancholy arrangement of frayed, ambient sounds and dusty pulses - highly recommended.
Type Recordings
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New album from one of America's most persistently interesting avant-garde percussionists,
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The fourth full-length from Claudio Rocchetti, Stefano Pilia and Valerio Tricoli’s genre-defying trio.
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Debut album from Chris Carter and Cosey Fanni Tutti in their guise as Carter Tutti
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A live document of a 2002 Chris & Cosey live performance at CC Luchtbal in Antwerp, Belgium
CTI In Continuum: The Library of Sound Edition 3
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From 1995, another immersive ambient album from Throbbing Gristle members Chris & Cosey
Electronic Ambient Remixes Three
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Chris Carter reworks original Throbbing Gristle material from the 1970s and 1980s
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Amazing new album from Earth. Sit back, you’re going to need to make time for this one...
