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Ascoltare - Giving Set

3 more tracks of experimental electronics from Cambridge's Ascoltare. Contains a track that was on the last Wire Tapper CD (#15). Ltd 500 only white wax in zip-lock bag.

Also check out Ascoltare's imprint Tripel Records on the labels page. Its found within the 'Featured' section.

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Ascoltare & Um - Split

UM - Giraffe (refined)
Vocalising alongside minute blocks of digital yuck, UM struts like a broken, funkless version of Harco Pront (Music for Speakers ) occasionally knocking knees with The Residents ( Euroralph ) and Voks ( Dekorder ). Recent output includes the wonderful Africa is a Fridge 7? ( Strange Lights ) (DJ-ed by Felix Kubin and Jason Forrest, amongst others) and several homemade CDR releases. Giraffe is one such record and Tripel's ˜refined' version borrows the best of that here. Fifteen digital memoirs anchored in lacquer; abstruse UM stories are echoing further and forever more. Fans of original and best, take heed!

Ascoltare - Fatty Parts For A Good Match
Plundering the world of the reality TV Chef and its surrounding culinary language, Ascoltare serves us a yummy cut/up featuring choice sound bites. Acoustic instruments rejuvenated by digital techniques and numerous production values serve a generous spread for the discerning listener. Sounds range from Jerome Noetinger ( Metamkine ) style electrical squeals to more delicately positioned acoustic sounds. Eccentric organ licks and music-library inspired textures float effortlessly around meaty montages of Iron Chef Judges and British foodies. Added ingredients include Rick Stein, Keith Floyd and Gordon Ramsey all of which undergo the pitch up & down treatment. Stein's continual whining can be heard amongst Bontempi drones and glocken rattles. Noises automate attentively through narrative text and the occasional contrast of Merzbow style fuck-blasts infused with passionate chatter is fresh and humorous. Also provided at the end of this 12? (Specifically cut for all you DJ's!) are choice selections of Gordon Ramsey insults.

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Man From Uranus - Wild Moogimals

Well, quite a feat from MFU: 8 tracks on one 7". This is a man who's predominately improvised live shows bounce about in space colliding stars and planets alike with shards of moog, broken analog tape and theremin. Control is the key on this 7", a fully focused MFU displaying what the hell synths, theremins and other analog wizardries were designed for: music which makes you want to dance and smile while at the same time maintaining an element of confusion thanks to the free Sun Ra influenced passages passing through at light speed. Take a trip with the Spaceman

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Um - Africa Is A Fridge (ep)

So, you can count the number of music making people in Cambridge of merit, on one or two (at a push) hands... UM would be the first thumb on your left hand. Ranging from experimental electronica to sublime pop songs.

Alternately absurd and acutely real, these five songs from the enigmatic Cambridge-based UM are propelled by off kilter charity shop grooves, sampled loops and post-digital crunches and hums. His style is short, darkly humourous tales that are often touching. UM has shared live space with Hot Chip , V/VM, Felix Kubin, Panda Bear, Kevin Blechdom and Mum. Pressed on clear vinyl with an A7 artwork card. 500 only.

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