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tracer

by omit

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Sandorkappen
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Sandorkappen OMIT rules. I’ve been a fan for over 20 years. Fact.
Hitting the Pavement
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Hitting the Pavement Every time I listen to Omit, I feel like some character from Greg Egan’s books (see e.g. “Axiomatic” or “Permutation City”) - which is quite interesting, considering that those gentlemen are from NZ and AU, respectively. Maybe they are just two quantum states of the same system?
Tom Rimshot
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Tom Rimshot The fact that Omit is on a platform with the visibility of Bandcamp, is nothing less than a microcosmic eclipse. Williams' work feels as if it belongs absolutely nowhere. Alien, isolated and grey in every sense of those words. In the distant future, when the travellers land their ships on the smouldering husk of our rotted apple core planet, they will sift through the atomic blasted debris and find...this.
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sequester 20:53
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de-trop 03:08
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hex-shader 02:34
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rhythm shift 04:54
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decayer 03:01
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din shader 02:48
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slip link 03:10
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tooper-flex 04:28
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mini-trop 02:09
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seq-viod 01:34
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rip flex 03:04
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clicker 07:44
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din-cycle 02:55
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link-op 10:08
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eq-shader 03:20
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tapper flex 08:53
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bug-capper 02:12
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pro-hiss 06:16
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flick 03:30
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dinker trop 03:22
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eska-flex 02:16
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hisstronic 09:05

about

clinton williams admits that he has never been particularly keen in marketing the obsessive electronic constructions he's produced under the moniker omit over the past two decades. williams once infamously quipped to nick cain that he should simply print a couple pages of zeros in lieu of the failing interview that cain was conducting for his own opprobrium magazine a little over a decade ago. while such actions may be confused with those of a curmudgeonly hermit, williams is concerned with his impeccable battery of synthetic sounds intent on psychological dislocation.

having released the bulk of his work in tiny self-published editions of lathe-cut singles and hand-dubbed cassettes, omit has enjoyed several high-profile releases thanks to the diligence of corpus hermeticum and anomalous records who both rescued some of omit's finest work from terminal obscurity. the helen scarsdale agency is proud to announce the arrival of his latest recording tracer a double disc set.

as with all of his previous work, tracer is an antiquated behemoth, constructed from analogue synthesizers, primitive drum machines, homespun electronics, and numerous effects pedals. simple wooden rhythms trot, trudge, and even glide along taut metric grids hotwired with bursts of mechanical splutter and the occasional creak from pierre henry's wooden door. an occasionally menacing, but more often melancholic orchestration of synthetic tones ripple, flex, and dissolve across the uniform structuralism, creating an ecstatic paranoia rarely heard with such splendor, rigor, and sublime blackness. if sonic references are required, then the klaus schulze masterpiece cyborg remains the closest analogy to what may be found in tracer.

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released September 15, 2005

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helen scarsdale California

post-industrial research, surrealist collage, refined minimalism, caustic electro-acoustics, sublimated dream-pop, obfuscated field recordings, recombinant noise, existential vacancy, and then some.

no demos accepted. full demo policy explained here: helenscarsdale.com/about.htm
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