1991 is the alias of Gothenburg based artist Axel Backman.
1991 EP has been mastered and suported by Vessel
Open to the dark, by Drudy Peregrine
"Ever since musicologists of all levels have coined the term "hauntological" for music that seems to reference references,
for instance Burial's music referencing rave and early 90's dance culture precisely by its hollow absence of anything happy.
for instance Burial's music referencing rave and early 90's dance culture precisely by its hollow absence of anything happy.
First, we can't discern as a biproduct of recording or an intentional sound- it opens with a couple talking in swedish? german?
in a kitchen maybe? and then the main sample comes in, it's a straight-forward loop of what sounds like some obscure New Romantic
record from the 80's - synths interact on top and phase in and out with the main sample, but what's really cool
is that the distortion and intentions here leave you with a wonderment of questions, some being:
in a kitchen maybe? and then the main sample comes in, it's a straight-forward loop of what sounds like some obscure New Romantic
record from the 80's - synths interact on top and phase in and out with the main sample, but what's really cool
is that the distortion and intentions here leave you with a wonderment of questions, some being:
Is every time we hear a sample a new time-space? // Also, even the idea of "mind-sampling", where we hold on to snippets of moments,
for instance we're at a club and we hear a song, it's amazing, we're not going to interrupt the dj to ask what the song is, its almost
better that we build the mental monument to its elusive nature- the sample here seems to have articulated that love and longing near-perfectly /
the love that we fall into from not being able to discern things readily and instead must accept ambiguity and not-knowing as the firmest
establishment / to be left with more questions than answers / also what's the deal with, say, sampling the radio or sampling the ambiance
of a place as opposed to a straight sound source? Are we sampling the energy that's happening around the sound in that case?
1991 seems to suggest yes, there are ghosts in the binary machines."
for instance we're at a club and we hear a song, it's amazing, we're not going to interrupt the dj to ask what the song is, its almost
better that we build the mental monument to its elusive nature- the sample here seems to have articulated that love and longing near-perfectly /
the love that we fall into from not being able to discern things readily and instead must accept ambiguity and not-knowing as the firmest
establishment / to be left with more questions than answers / also what's the deal with, say, sampling the radio or sampling the ambiance
of a place as opposed to a straight sound source? Are we sampling the energy that's happening around the sound in that case?
1991 seems to suggest yes, there are ghosts in the binary machines."
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Musicólogos de todo tipo han acuñado el término "hauntological" para la música que pretende referenciar referencias,
por ejemplo, la música de Burial hace referencia a la cultura rave y dance de principios de los años 90,
precisamente por su ausencia de cualquier atisbo de felicidad.
por ejemplo, la música de Burial hace referencia a la cultura rave y dance de principios de los años 90,
precisamente por su ausencia de cualquier atisbo de felicidad.
En primer lugar, podemos entender la composición de este tema bien como dos partes diferenciadas o bien como un todo,
un intencionado sonido continuo - ¿comienza con la conversación de una pareja en sueco? ¿alemán? ¿en una cocina quizás?
Y a continuación el sample principal entrante, un bucle sencillo de lo que parece un oscuro tema New Romantic de los años 80
- los sintetizadores interactúan yendo y viniendo en fase con el sample principal, pero lo que es realmente interesante
son esas distorsiones que hacen que te plantees numerosas cuestiones:
un intencionado sonido continuo - ¿comienza con la conversación de una pareja en sueco? ¿alemán? ¿en una cocina quizás?
Y a continuación el sample principal entrante, un bucle sencillo de lo que parece un oscuro tema New Romantic de los años 80
- los sintetizadores interactúan yendo y viniendo en fase con el sample principal, pero lo que es realmente interesante
son esas distorsiones que hacen que te plantees numerosas cuestiones:
¿Cada vez que escuchamos un sample entramos en un nuevo espacio-tiempo? // Cabe la idea de conducirlo hacia el terreno
"mental-sensorial", donde nos aferramos a instantes, pequeños fragmentos de momentos- como cuando estamos en un club,
escuchamos una canción, y lo último que se nos pasa por la cabeza es ir a preguntarle al dj por la canción, es casi mejor
que lo disfrutemos mentalmente por su naturaleza elusiva y efímera- el sample en esta canción nos muestra que amor y deseo
casan perfectamente / el amor en que caemos por no ser capaces de discernir las cosas fácilmente en vez de aceptar la ambigüedad
y el no-conocimiento como un firme principio / quedándonos con más preguntas que respuestas / ¿Y si hablamos de la oposición entre
samplear sonidos de la radio o del ambiente de un lugar, frente a grabar el sonido de una fuente directa? ¿Estamos sampleando
la energía que rodea y envuelve al sonido en ese caso? 1991 parece indicar que sí, que hay fantasmas en las máquinas binarias.
Intro voices from a casting made to Charlotte Valandrey
Main Sample from "The Cure - Charlotte Sometimes"
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