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ABOUT SHAUN ROBERT
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SHAUN ROBERT contributed 'Sound Invasion' to 2003's metal.machine music, while July 2004 saw the release of Radio Dada 3, a collaborative album with JAMES RICHARDS and THE INSTRUMENT PANEL.
Shaun's fascination with sound and conceptual music - beginning with short wave radio and experiments in manuipulating recordings of every day situations - dates back to his involvement with late Eighties cassette culture.
Shaun's first solo release on machine.records, Tape Machine Swan Song, will be released on October 24th 2005.
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| REVIEWS FOR METAL.MACHINE MUSIC |
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 releases on this label so far. As it's a complation you'd be right in thinking that it has a varied feel, albeit within the elecronica 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 Fume Zombie, 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 you're [sic] interest isn't likely to dissapate.'
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