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Process | Shape-Space
LP, Fat Cat
Tekst: Matthijs de Jonge
Publicatiedatum: 15 juli 2000
Process is British-born Steve Barnes, who divides his time between Brighton and Cologne, Germany. This, then, would explain the distinctive German-ness of this record. Barnes plays roughly the same field as, say, Pole or the Chain Reaction crowd, fusing heavy dub leads and submerged four-to-the-floor beats with a healthy dose of noisy experimentation. What sets him apart from his German colleagues, however, is his playfulness and eclecticism. Whereas an artist like Pole examines a certain narrow aspect of sound in painstaking detail and never leaves his chosen field of study, Process collects his material from a much broader source, going on a dub trip on one track and plunging into the depths of white noise on the next. When done indiscriminately, this kind of voraciousness can lead to directionless trickery or plain tomfoolery, but Barnes is a skillful enough producer to avoid these these pitfalls and cook up a collection of tracks that is varied without ever losing focus. For this alone he should be lauded, but coupled with his exquisite skill in manipulating his equipment and constructing well laid out tracks it makes for an album that you will listen to again and again without ever growing tired of it. If you're only going to buy one piece of experimental dub electronica this year, this is the one to go for.
http://www.kindamuzik.net/recensie/process/shape-space/574/
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