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alva noto - Transform
To many the definitive Alva Noto album, and certainly one of the seminal works of the clicks 'n' cuts genre, Transform originally saw a release through Mille Plateaux in 2001 and now undergoes the reissue treatment via Raster Noton, it's spiritual home. Little could anyone have forseen the number of records (many by Carsten Nicolai himself) that would be inspired by this groundbreaking album, harnessing the purity and directness of its mandate and rifling through the various permutations of those simple sine tones. Because it's a sound that's still very much with us today, Transform really doesn't feel like it's aged - even if it does seem familiar. The opening pieces - or 'modules' - establish what sort of vocabulary we're dealing with: it's the most elemental of wave forms, usually tuned to the extremes of high or low frequencies and modulated with a sophisticated, machine-like precision. It might be thought of as an automated, frenzied reboot of the austere, impenetrable tones on a Sachiko M recording. Only by 'module 3' do we find ourselves in the grip of those familiar Alva Noto percussive frameworks, establishing a sense of rhythmic order to the gentle flickers that came before. It's often been cited that Transform was partly inspired by the American R&B circulating at the time, taking its percussive cues from Timbaland and other influential producers of the day. In retrospect, it's hard to make that link. Instead, this record sounds like a prototype for what was to come, but moreover, it's an album that despite the proliferation of its influence survives by its own terms all these years on. ESSENTIAL PURCHASE.
MP3 Download // £4.95
FLAC Download // £6.95
FLAC Download // £3.95
CD // £14.99
DIAMOND VERSION (ALVA NOTO AND BYETONE)
Mute
12" // £7.99
Alva Noto and Byetone get precisely loose and freaky on the 4th Diamond Version EP
ALVA NOTO AND RYUICHI SAKAMOTO
raster-noton
CD // £13.99
The fifth and purportedly final collaborative album from Sakamoto and Nicolai.
DIAMOND VERSION (ALVA NOTO AND BYETONE)
Mute
12" // £7.49
Carsten Nicolai and Olaf Bender roll out the third Diamond Version EP off their production line...
MP3 Download // £5.99
ALVA NOTO AND RYUICHI SAKAMOTO
raster-noton
MP3 Download // £6.99
FLAC Download // £8.99
Download edition of this brand new Alva Noto and Sakamoto release. Highly Recommended.
raster-noton
MP3 Download // £6.99
FLAC Download // £8.99
Amazing cochlea engulfing bass tones and ultra-visceral edits from rhythmic auteur Frank Bretschneider.
Ø + NOTO (MIKA VAINIO & CARSTEN NICOLAI)
raster-noton
MP3 Download // £5.99FLAC Download // £6.99
*AVAILABLE DIGITALLY FOR THE FIRST TIME - A CLASSIC COLLABORATION BETWEEN VAINIO AND NICOLAI*
ANBB (ALVA NOTO & BLIXA BARGELD)
raster-noton
MP3 Download // £6.99FLAC Download // £8.99
The much-anticipated debut full-length from this Alva Noto/Blixa Bargeld collaboration
