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The
first CDR recording by Ghoul Detail that I had the pleasure of reviewing
"I want to have your Aids baby" [read
here] was a sonically bleak, black power ambient, sample laden ‘hot
shit’ release. I doubt that many of you picked up a copy though.
Silly, silly you. Reappraising it once more prior to this review I can
only re-urge you to visit the website…now up and running…and
grab yourself a copy pronto. Whilst there you might as well flash the
cash and buy this release at the same time. The reason for this endorsement.
Read on MacDuff:
Ghoul Detail…still not 100% sure about the name…have taken
the bull by the horns and gone into Space ambient territory with their
eight track cdr release "Residual Tremors". Competing against
the likes of Lustmord, Arcibo, Clock DVA, Gustaf Hildebrand, Visions,
Dark Factory…the list like space itself is endless…he, The
Soundscape Gardener, manages to hold his own against such illustrious
company. The premise is simple. Take various samples from NASA, the Soviet
space program and radio recordings from the outer limits and mix them
in with suitably far out cold electronics and effects. The execution is
nigh on faultless. Mixing in with the usual slow build up dark sonics
are slightly faint power electronics…generally space ambient releases
tend to be more serene floaty affairs…they up the ante in their
interpretation of space ambient music. Here waves of music throb and hum
with static overdoses and swirling passages. Tight shards of noise reverberate
whilst distant echoes bo unce and collide in wild abandon. Blip, blip,
beep, beep, blip, blip. The samples binding it all together making for
a neat take on this ever expanding genre.
"Residual Tremors", like its predecessor, is a recording you’ll
actually enjoy returning to and marks a welcome return from this English
agent provocateur working with very little funds and no support from the
big guns. Producing this quality of work shows that we need Ghoul Detail
more than he needs us.
ANM