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Mordant Music, Dead Air
Possibly unfair to make this comparison, I daresay this lot have been pursuing this tip for ages, but it certainly hits this listener as a post-Ghostbox record. Electronic music flitting between eerie and whimsy, baleful and jaunty; discernible influences from library music (the band have apparently just done some work for Boosey & Hawkes)… then there’s a trace of the Skam/Boards of Canada end of things…. and when it gets more beat-y and driving I think of early 90s UK techno: Ubik and Holy Ghost and stuff on Network and Outer Rhythm… pirate radio tunes before it all went totally breakbeat… lots of fun samples to spot as they whiz by… the Survivors theme tune: that shudder-ripple of electronic sound just when the bacterial-warfare scientist drops the vial of plague…. and ooh, that’s descending reverb-trail, that’s from Another Green World, “Sombre Reptiles” maybe … and the clincher for the Ghostbox comparison is the involvement of Philip Elsmore, whose warm, soothing tones will be recognizable to anyone who grew up in the UK in the 70s, on account of his being a continuity announcer for all the ITV regional franchises like Border, Tyne Tees, Southern and Thames… the mysterious Baron Mordant informs: “we tracked him down and interviewed him on the South Bank…he was delighted and mildly bemused to provide our continuity…originally it was slated to involve continuity only but the actual interview yielded so much that we cut and pasted him all o’er the tapestry.
Possibly unfair to make this comparison, I daresay this lot have been pursuing this tip for ages, but it certainly hits this listener as a post-Ghostbox record. Electronic music flitting between eerie and whimsy, baleful and jaunty; discernible influences from library music (the band have apparently just done some work for Boosey & Hawkes)… then there’s a trace of the Skam/Boards of Canada end of things…. and when it gets more beat-y and driving I think of early 90s UK techno: Ubik and Holy Ghost and stuff on Network and Outer Rhythm… pirate radio tunes before it all went totally breakbeat… lots of fun samples to spot as they whiz by… the Survivors theme tune: that shudder-ripple of electronic sound just when the bacterial-warfare scientist drops the vial of plague…. and ooh, that’s descending reverb-trail, that’s from Another Green World, “Sombre Reptiles” maybe … and the clincher for the Ghostbox comparison is the involvement of Philip Elsmore, whose warm, soothing tones will be recognizable to anyone who grew up in the UK in the 70s, on account of his being a continuity announcer for all the ITV regional franchises like Border, Tyne Tees, Southern and Thames… the mysterious Baron Mordant informs: “we tracked him down and interviewed him on the South Bank…he was delighted and mildly bemused to provide our continuity…originally it was slated to involve continuity only but the actual interview yielded so much that we cut and pasted him all o’er the tapestry.
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ernstdj wrote:
too much great!!
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ajndrei wrote:
so good
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Skimma wrote:
I am truely thankful for the existence of Mordant Music.
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IcarusB wrote:
I love fallen faces - difficult to grasp it's humour I guess - but the lyrics (such as 'lean-to suicide') are endearingly insane. But its the second Tower album which takes me to the 'elsewhere' I'm genuinely looking for in his music. Deepdownprimal.
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reinformpulse wrote:
Hummdrumm is otherworldly...
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Grindfucked wrote:
and fallen faces is damn great aswell. can't see why anybody should have a problem with that song.
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Grindfucked wrote:
Dead Air is a good record
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cnwb wrote:
I don't really like Fallen Faces at all.
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futureimage wrote:
What have people got against Fallen Faces? I love it! I read somewhere that more material like that is coming in this new year.
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PRAEst76 wrote:
It's the token single track in the broadcast for contractual reasons. Personally I quite like it, though it is so out of place there. Look upon it like the Hal David track at the end of The Seven Samurai soundtrack LP...
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30 May 2006 | from blog.myspace.com/mordantmusic
Mordant Music suffocate MMyspace with 'Dead Air'...sporing out und feeding back since August '56... www.mordantmusic.com
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30 May 2006 | from blog.myspace.com/mordantmusic
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