MR02/003. STEREO MINUS ONE | He Made Strange Noises
ABOUT
Released: December 2002 Format: CD-R Length: 34:55 STEREO MINUS ONE’s second full-length album, He Made Strange Noises reveals a more melacholy, reflective mood than witnessed the early fury of raw, noise-fuelled excesses of 2001’s The Sound Inside Sound.	Elements of processed guitar and keyboard sounds transform the sonic landscape, and painstaking layering of sound into complex structures replaces the earlier approach to production - which was almost completely live for The Sound Inside Sound.
REVIEWS
JASON OLARIU: 'The more recent Strange Noises broadens SMO’s fascinating, yet limited, sonic horizon a bit, and the view is a less grating, more exploratory one. 'Dust Rotation A' compiles volumes of mechanical sounds and arranges them at random, like Iannis Xenakis conducting an army of poorly-timed machines; growing out of the spastic droid chatter that occasionally pollutes Strange Noises, an airtight synth string note is held for the duration of 'Civil Defense', periodically	pitching up and down an octave for melodic effect. Stereo Minus One might not be striving to be Steve Reich, but howling feedback or no, his brand of maxi/minimalism is as forward thinking as it gets today. Subtle? Yeah, like a fucking brick in the face.' DESIDERATA: '...broken rhythms and sounds fraught with tension and unease. the deluge of synthetic electronic sounds... broken up here and there with some guitar and drum segments...'
TRACKLISTING	ARTWORK
01 Docking Systems 1975 02 My Evil Dead 03 Dust Rotation 04 He Made Strange Noises 05 Dust Rotation B 06 Civil Defense 07 Guitar Track 08 Tear Here 09 Morning Archaeology 10 Blisters on My Fingers	This 2004 edition has new artwork and an extra 10th track (previously uncredited). Use the links below to see the front and back covers of the CD. The cover image is © Judith Pryor 2004. Front 312x312 (65KB) Back 312x312 (65KB)