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Various Artists
"BiP_HOp Generation [v.6]"
Format:
CD/Album
Online date:
25/4 2003
Label:
Bip-Hop
Genre:
experimental
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The final installation in Bip Hops first series of label samplers, Bip Hop generation v. 6 is here. BiP HOp is a label focusing on experimental electronic music with artists from all over the world. Each of the six acts featured on this CD have been given a short presentation in the accompanying booklet and I thought I’d just follow the given formula and present some of the artists and tell you on what they’ve added to the album.
First up is Alejandra & Aeron from the US and Spain with a dreamy track called “Listening to radio rioja before going to sleep”. High pitch sounds cut off, blended with acoustics makes it a rather interesting, at least enticing me to check them out further. Then there’s Scanner from the UK with two songs. I’m not quite sure why some artists have two songs and some don’t, kind of missing the point of a sampler album but it really doesn’t bother me that much. Anyway, Scanner contributes perhaps the most moving track on this compilation in “thulium hymn”, a beautiful multi-layered soundscape over an echoing cell phone conversation sends shivers down my spine.
Bittonic of Germany works with the human voice as an instrument, cutting and mixing it to a point where little remains of the original sample. This creates a sense of things that are out of context, and the arrangements themselves create a rather disturbing sense of urgency. Though interesting from a creative point of view, I was bored with the music halfway through both songs. Ilpo Väisänen on the other hand does a much better job at keeping the my attention, with the suggestive beats on “Vaara” especially, Ilpo stays interesting throughout the song despite the fact that the base structure of the song is left pretty much untouched. Ending the sampler is Battery Operated from Canada and Angel from Germany and Finland. The latter with a more industrial, mechanical sound compared to the rest of the artists with a quite clever, though perhaps not very imaginative, accelerating-train-rhythm, which rounds off the album nicely. All in all, this is an interesting sampler with an edge towards sound design, experimentation and abstract soundscaping. And that’s fine if you like that sort of thing, I would just liked to have had more tunes.
/Fredric Düring
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Various Artists"BiP_HOp Generation [v.6]"
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