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CATALOGUE
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Holiday on Earth |
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| MR03/005. THE INSTRUMENT PANEL | Holiday on Earth |
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| ABOUT |
Released: 15 December 2003
Format: CD-R
Length: 70:54
Holiday on Earth is the strange and fascinating fruit of Cardiff-based THE INSTRUMENT PANEL’s many years of experimentation with tape loops, children’s toys, keyboards and guitars.
| Made entirely with 4-track and minidisc technology (cardboard box reverbs and found snare-sounds jostle with analogue drone and cut-up beats) THE INSTRUMENT PANEL’s debut album is at once challenging, raw, and achieves a melancholic beauty with few identifiable musical precedents.
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| REVIEWS |
SOUND NATION:
'[The Instrument Panel's] experiments with tape loops and reversed beats have resulted in an intriguing (if not always entirely successful) album here.
Defiantly avant-garde, these arrangements are mashed-up to the extent that the guitars have turned to cardboad, the analogue beats to jelly. He's a master at his craft - Holiday On Earth does not bear easy comparison to other artists, which is always a sure sign of originality.
Certain parts of the album bring to mind Papa M's stunning Live From A Shark Cage. By way of a coda, tricksy Digital Hardcore beats whip out of the speakers, finally raising the album above the preceding tracks' funereal pace. Holiday On Earth is a beguiling, frustrating and inflammatory listen, made with few concessions to pre-conceived notions of what even passes for 'music'. But that is undoubtedly the point.' | BUZZ MAGAZINE:
'The Instrument Panel is an unknown but fascinating quantity, Holiday on Earth being 16 untitled tracks of droney beauty, curdled samples and fuzzy Good Attitude in the style of early Fat Cat releases'.
E|I MAGAZINE:
'Keeping his ideation in check, The Instrument Panel wisely explores a modicum of notes and noises, staying the course throughout. Sixteen untitled bits of jetsam crash the factory walls in preset fury. Percussion becomes blurred in a morass of hip-hop discordia and serrated rhythms, electronics are hydrogen-ignited and brought down to earth in sheets of radioactive particulates, but then the odd flirtations with 4AD-style shoegazing intercede. That said, hardhat required for this saucy anti-EBM, a decaying remnant brought back from the ancestral '80s US casette underground.'
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| TRACKLISTING | ARTWORK |
All 16 tracks are untitled.
01 03:31
02 04:34
03 05:31
04 03:53
05 02:54
06 02:59
07 04:17
08 04:13
09 05:39
10 04:06
11 05:22
12 05:47
13 02:41
14 03:32
15 06:54
16 04:54
| Use the links below to see the front and back covers of the CD.
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Back 312x312 (4KB) |
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