Assembled from piano, electronics and field recordings that Belgian producer Gavin Vanaelst (aka DJ Charme) captured while he was couriering food in Antwerp, 'Takeway Loops' is a queasy, Hiroshi Yoshimura-like reflection of our contemporary capitalist reality.
We've all come across app delivery services by now, and Vanaelst, who runs the Aboli Bibelot event space in Antwerp, is more familiar than most, having donned the bright orange uniform for the city's Takeaway brand. While he was waiting at fast food outlets for the pickups, he would capture the awkward interactions on his phone, and these familiar - but admittedly eerily affecting - recordings are chopped, mangled and looped to form the concrète foundations for 'Takeaway Loops'. Early on, the sonic landscape is tough to place: on opener 'Falafel King', Vanaelst's Satie-like piano phrases and synthesized chorals almost drown out the rattly environmental sounds. But we're in a more familiar landscape on 'Mc Donalds', as a pulsing 4/4 cuts through kitchen clatter. Vanaelst slices his instruments into fine grains on 'Quick', seemingly echoing the outer chaos, and the album comes to an abrupt, chilling plateau on the almost nine-minute 'Searching for Kentucky Fried Chicken at Wijnegem Shopping Center', a raw field recording that cements the feeling of traipsing around an anonymous mall.
It's surprisingly moving material; Vanaelst's gentle piano phrases and restrained processes are so subtly sardonic that you almost believe the sentiment - it's the outer architectures that make it so poignant.
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Assembled from piano, electronics and field recordings that Belgian producer Gavin Vanaelst (aka DJ Charme) captured while he was couriering food in Antwerp, 'Takeway Loops' is a queasy, Hiroshi Yoshimura-like reflection of our contemporary capitalist reality.
We've all come across app delivery services by now, and Vanaelst, who runs the Aboli Bibelot event space in Antwerp, is more familiar than most, having donned the bright orange uniform for the city's Takeaway brand. While he was waiting at fast food outlets for the pickups, he would capture the awkward interactions on his phone, and these familiar - but admittedly eerily affecting - recordings are chopped, mangled and looped to form the concrète foundations for 'Takeaway Loops'. Early on, the sonic landscape is tough to place: on opener 'Falafel King', Vanaelst's Satie-like piano phrases and synthesized chorals almost drown out the rattly environmental sounds. But we're in a more familiar landscape on 'Mc Donalds', as a pulsing 4/4 cuts through kitchen clatter. Vanaelst slices his instruments into fine grains on 'Quick', seemingly echoing the outer chaos, and the album comes to an abrupt, chilling plateau on the almost nine-minute 'Searching for Kentucky Fried Chicken at Wijnegem Shopping Center', a raw field recording that cements the feeling of traipsing around an anonymous mall.
It's surprisingly moving material; Vanaelst's gentle piano phrases and restrained processes are so subtly sardonic that you almost believe the sentiment - it's the outer architectures that make it so poignant.
Assembled from piano, electronics and field recordings that Belgian producer Gavin Vanaelst (aka DJ Charme) captured while he was couriering food in Antwerp, 'Takeway Loops' is a queasy, Hiroshi Yoshimura-like reflection of our contemporary capitalist reality.
We've all come across app delivery services by now, and Vanaelst, who runs the Aboli Bibelot event space in Antwerp, is more familiar than most, having donned the bright orange uniform for the city's Takeaway brand. While he was waiting at fast food outlets for the pickups, he would capture the awkward interactions on his phone, and these familiar - but admittedly eerily affecting - recordings are chopped, mangled and looped to form the concrète foundations for 'Takeaway Loops'. Early on, the sonic landscape is tough to place: on opener 'Falafel King', Vanaelst's Satie-like piano phrases and synthesized chorals almost drown out the rattly environmental sounds. But we're in a more familiar landscape on 'Mc Donalds', as a pulsing 4/4 cuts through kitchen clatter. Vanaelst slices his instruments into fine grains on 'Quick', seemingly echoing the outer chaos, and the album comes to an abrupt, chilling plateau on the almost nine-minute 'Searching for Kentucky Fried Chicken at Wijnegem Shopping Center', a raw field recording that cements the feeling of traipsing around an anonymous mall.
It's surprisingly moving material; Vanaelst's gentle piano phrases and restrained processes are so subtly sardonic that you almost believe the sentiment - it's the outer architectures that make it so poignant.
Assembled from piano, electronics and field recordings that Belgian producer Gavin Vanaelst (aka DJ Charme) captured while he was couriering food in Antwerp, 'Takeway Loops' is a queasy, Hiroshi Yoshimura-like reflection of our contemporary capitalist reality.
We've all come across app delivery services by now, and Vanaelst, who runs the Aboli Bibelot event space in Antwerp, is more familiar than most, having donned the bright orange uniform for the city's Takeaway brand. While he was waiting at fast food outlets for the pickups, he would capture the awkward interactions on his phone, and these familiar - but admittedly eerily affecting - recordings are chopped, mangled and looped to form the concrète foundations for 'Takeaway Loops'. Early on, the sonic landscape is tough to place: on opener 'Falafel King', Vanaelst's Satie-like piano phrases and synthesized chorals almost drown out the rattly environmental sounds. But we're in a more familiar landscape on 'Mc Donalds', as a pulsing 4/4 cuts through kitchen clatter. Vanaelst slices his instruments into fine grains on 'Quick', seemingly echoing the outer chaos, and the album comes to an abrupt, chilling plateau on the almost nine-minute 'Searching for Kentucky Fried Chicken at Wijnegem Shopping Center', a raw field recording that cements the feeling of traipsing around an anonymous mall.
It's surprisingly moving material; Vanaelst's gentle piano phrases and restrained processes are so subtly sardonic that you almost believe the sentiment - it's the outer architectures that make it so poignant.
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Assembled from piano, electronics and field recordings that Belgian producer Gavin Vanaelst (aka DJ Charme) captured while he was couriering food in Antwerp, 'Takeway Loops' is a queasy, Hiroshi Yoshimura-like reflection of our contemporary capitalist reality.
We've all come across app delivery services by now, and Vanaelst, who runs the Aboli Bibelot event space in Antwerp, is more familiar than most, having donned the bright orange uniform for the city's Takeaway brand. While he was waiting at fast food outlets for the pickups, he would capture the awkward interactions on his phone, and these familiar - but admittedly eerily affecting - recordings are chopped, mangled and looped to form the concrète foundations for 'Takeaway Loops'. Early on, the sonic landscape is tough to place: on opener 'Falafel King', Vanaelst's Satie-like piano phrases and synthesized chorals almost drown out the rattly environmental sounds. But we're in a more familiar landscape on 'Mc Donalds', as a pulsing 4/4 cuts through kitchen clatter. Vanaelst slices his instruments into fine grains on 'Quick', seemingly echoing the outer chaos, and the album comes to an abrupt, chilling plateau on the almost nine-minute 'Searching for Kentucky Fried Chicken at Wijnegem Shopping Center', a raw field recording that cements the feeling of traipsing around an anonymous mall.
It's surprisingly moving material; Vanaelst's gentle piano phrases and restrained processes are so subtly sardonic that you almost believe the sentiment - it's the outer architectures that make it so poignant.