Saw track one from The Cyclist and hit the play button. I haven’t heard from this dude since that Leaving Records/Stones Throw compilation, and his contribution to that 2CS(LP) turned heads, leading to the full-length, Bones In Motion on Leaving Records later that year. “Heated Cliff” here keeps it just as dirty and analog as all of my favorite digital releases. And Touched By an Angle keeps a fuzzy length of the contributor list, moving through Luxury Elite to Foodman, and Cream Dream. Then there are the other twenty-nine on the list who are all new to me, dropping tunes I was never not going to like. Yet, for a compilation, the thing moves with a fluidity that had me thinking I was still finishing out that Cyclist track when I was already five cuts in. Recordings of a field filled with failing software and wires pieced together with electrical tape and impoverished technical intuition. Kind of hard to tell where one stops and another begins. Just one big string of electrical tunneling.
The whole compilation is available for free over at the Crash Symbols Bandcamp page; a map of an underground system connecting laptops ‘cross the globe through, like, LoJack and… and built-in webcams. From here, the hyperlinks are practically infinite.
• Crash Symbols: http://crashsymbols.bandcamp.com
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