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Metal Machine Music

by Machine Records

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Metal Machine Music collects 16 of the best tracks from the first two years of Machine Records' innovative explorations of the darker, more experimental side of the growing UK electronica scene.

There are contributions from THE INSTRUMENT PANEL, FUMEZOMBIE, and STEREO MINUS ONE, as well as London-based SUPERIMPOZER, US-based WILL SODERBERG, and CAPE CANAVERAL, currently touring the Americas. Tracks by BEN KOLB, SHAUN ROBERT, and JAMES RICHARDS complete the mix.

SOUND NATION: "This South Wales label has a website that quotes original noise junkies the Italian Futurists and this compilation cocks its hat to Lou Reed's 1975 feedback masterpiece, so we've poised ourselves for a 70-minute industrial assault on the senses. However, beyond the stark refrigerator hum of Shaun Robert's 'Sound Invasion' and the shrill digital trill of James Richards' 'Love Theme' this is a reasonably melodic collection of minimalist electronica with the emphasis heavily on calm cerebrality over dancefloor mentalism or punktronica novelty. So, The Instrument Panel make like a meditative Mogwai through a gradually detuning radio, Superimpozer layer industrial percussion into a factory-like hum of metal-on-metal activity, and Cape Canaveral sound like a welding accident on the launch-pad. Built in Wales, very probably, from girders."

BUZZ MAGAZINE: "Machine Records is one of the newest labels in Cardiff. It's also one of the most fervently DIY, releasing home-produced abstract electronica on limited CDR runs ... Metal Machine Music collects tracks from The Instrument Panel and eight other artists, mostly South-Walians: two tracks from Stereo Minus One (rickety folk drone and clanking techno, respectively) and the truly creepy dirge of Cape Canaveral warrant special mention here."

SMALLFISH RECORDS: "Easily the most accessible release on this label so far. As it's a compilation you'd be right in thinking that it has a varied feel, albeit within the electronica genre. Sixteen tracks that clank and grind, and thump and bump themselves all over the place. From ambient and textural to harsh and mechanical. Well worth checking out this great piece of homegrown fayre."

E|I MAGAZINE: "Understatement isn't generally a virtue ever midwifed in bedroomized electronica, so forgive me my silly grin in reporting about fledgling Machine Records and their CDR progeny ... Perplexing all the same is the Metal.Machine Music compilation, vacillating between the ratty grunge of Shaun Robert, Ben Kolb's subdued flowmotions, Superimpozer's Air Liquide knockoffs, the near-acoustic drunken orbist funk of Fumezombie, and a gaggle of other like-minded misanthropes. Putting a fine point on it is Stereo Minus One's 'He Made Strange Noises,' ironically, straightforward enough that I challenge from whence the artist derived his title. No matter - the collection of tracks, with its who's-who of styles, diverges enough from the norm your interest isn't likely to dissipate."

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released December 8, 2003

Compiled by Dan Haines.

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Machine Records Wellington, New Zealand

"Cardiff's number one underground electronic imprint."

Voted 'Best Label' at the Welsh Music Awards 2005.

"Built in Wales, very probably, from girders."

Founded in 2001.
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