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LM008 - Formatt - Exemn

 Peter Smeekens is of Belgian descent, combining small sounds into a tight weaving and fabricating them into potent tissue. For EARLabs he composed three excellent tracks of small, light weight sound sources.

There is a fourth track, which is a computer remix/scramble of the three original compositions. Mind you: it can ony be played with winamp. Somehow all other applications fail to read the header file and turn this brilliant computer-Cage-composition into hideous Merzbow-muck.

Read more about Formatt at www.formatt.info
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Duration

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3:30

4427 kB

2

4:56

6980 kB

3

5:22
7529 kb

secret bonustrack

18:55

26000 kB

all compositions 192 kb / s

review

Formatt is the project name for Peter Smeekens from Belgium. Exemn is his 3 track ep for the growing library of mp3 releases on Earlabs, and its one of the best ones yet. The sonic vocabulary is a familiar one, composed of digital sounds culled from a laptop. But how Smeekens articulates these sounds is what makes it work. The compositions are short and focused, without the seemingly randomness that plagues a lot of laptop music. Tight use of repeating motifs help
give the compositions structure and forward momentum. The first track
reminds me of a mix of gamelan music and P16D4 in form and content.
The ep comes with a bonus remix track, that only will play using Winamp, which I was not able to play. But judging from the first three tracks, I bet its a worthwhile addition. (Jeff Surak)

VITAL weekly September 2003

Neues aus dem Ohrlabor. Noiseshaping mal wieder. Für Freunde der experimentellen Geräuschkulissen und Klangkompositionen sicher eine ganz hervorragende Veröffentlichung. Es werden zwar kaum Grenzen eingerissen aber das Arrangement ist klasse.

Mari Posa, Ocotber 2003
       
       
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