Dalglish - Ideom (O.S.T.)

new reviews of Ideom

http://www.experimusic.com/electronicareviews-ideom.htm

http://blog.gusset.co.uk/2008/07/reviewcore.shtml

http://likeamagickiss.blogspot.com/

http://theonetruedeadangel.blogspot.com/20...01_archive.html

also here is some news about O.S.T.'s upcoming projects including a new AE remix -

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A limited vinyl release of an Autechre remix of "Ou" taken from the album Seimlste , and a digital only release for online label ”Adozen” containing many outtakes from DVD “Synken”. An Dalglish Album for the London label Highpoint Lowlife and an visual ep to be included on the label upcoming dvd ep release, a proposed idea of a "directors cut" of Synken, is in the works. Douglas is still also compiling an album of O.S.T. being remixed by Autechre, Pita, Merzbow and others. To finally tackle the long proposed idea to reinterpit album “Death Notice” with acoustic instruments. Chris Douglas is back!

cool, is this gonna be available in flac digital download anytime soon?

  flurobox said:

cool, is this gonna be available in flac digital download anytime soon?

i haven't seriously approached flac downloads yet, but maybe i should

put it on juno dude. sooner the better. i only ask because i don't feel like waiting a month for the cd to arrive in the mail.

its not going to be on juno at least for a month but we're working on getting it up there

here is a new really thought out review from someone who gave the album a serious listen:

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If you like your experimental electronica raw and pulverizing, this engrossing trip with Dalglish (Berlin-based Chris Douglas aka Rook Valard) as your guide should satisfy your needs perfectly. Ideom's material inhabits a multi-textured hermetic space teeming with fragmented melodies, degraded noise, and fractured beat structures. A sense of controlled chaos haunts the material but while it may threaten at certain moments to collapse into incoherence Douglas is careful to ensure that it doesn't. The beat structures in particular seem both futuristic and primitive; the raucous clatter in “F.Moo,” for example, could just as easily be a dozen apes banging on metal boxes as electronically-generated beatsmithing.

 

The shrieking overture “Exhinenoln” suggests Ideom won't be a peaceful journey though things settle down once the comparatively well-behaved “Hysgeil” appears. The atmosphere is till disturbed but the track stabilizes itself with a softly pounding rhythm that churns throughout. Elsewhere, Douglas exhibits a remarkable talent for radically innovative sound design: imagine putting a microphone inside an overdriven vacuum cleaner and playing the results back at full volume and you might come close to capturing the sound of “Morder J.” In “Damlicht,” flickering fragments—drum brushes that seem to trot from side to side, faint flickers, surging tones, violent ripples—percolate incessantly as if writhing in a simmering cauldron of black oil. Sweeping string tones in “Simint” add a rare touch of elegance to the collection, even if they're almost drowned under a blanket of rumbling noise.

 

Douglas, incidentally, is no novice. He established himself in the early ‘90s under the name O.S.T. with the release of the Basilar EP and five subsequent full-lengths on Pthalo Records and the album Deflect on Emanate; he even opened for Autechre on the group's Confield tour, and certainly Ideom perpetuates the kind of uncompromising explorative stance one associates with the Warp duo. Paving the way for Ideom, Douglas appeared on Highpoint Lowlife with the 2006 digital release OtJohr. The fifteen-track, seventy-three-minute Ideom isn't always an easy listen but it's nevertheless an incredible one.

 

September 2008

http://www.textura.org/reviews/dalglish.htm

I'll buy this and the Sote 12" as soon as I amass some money, promise.

IDEOM

this is a wonderful album.

i highly recommend it.

very glad chris is releasing music again.

cheers.

have come across this and must write this is among the best electronic music of the past year. really too little attention

  moo duck said:

have come across this and must write this is among the best electronic music of the past year. really too little attention

hey thanks for the mention, i wholeheartedly agree

Sounds interesting. I'll give it a whirl.

yep, it's very good - even better than last year's OST album.