{"id":31449,"date":"2013-08-15T18:41:48","date_gmt":"2013-08-15T17:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/?p=31449"},"modified":"2013-08-16T17:03:11","modified_gmt":"2013-08-16T16:03:11","slug":"traditional-music-of-notional-species-vol-i-rashad-becker-pan-recordings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/?p=31449","title":{"rendered":"Traditional Music Of Notional Species Vol. I. Rashad Becker. PAN Recordings."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Traditional-Music-Of-Notional-Species_motto_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-31451\" alt=\"Traditional Music Of Notional Species_motto_1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Traditional-Music-Of-Notional-Species_motto_1-682x511.jpg\" width=\"682\" height=\"511\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Traditional-Music-Of-Notional-Species_motto_1-682x511.jpg 682w, https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Traditional-Music-Of-Notional-Species_motto_1-340x254.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 682px) 100vw, 682px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Traditional Music Of Notional Species Vol. I. Rashad Becker. PAN Recordings.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>*Pressed on 140g vinyl, packaged in a pro-press color jacket and a silkscreened pvc sleeve* At long last PAN present the radical, revelatory debut album of sonic fictions by peerless mastering engineer, sound artist and composer, Rashad Becker. Via his day job as a cutting engineer at Berlin&#8217;s Dubplates &amp; Mastering and his post-production studio, Clunk, the Syrian-born German-raised autodidact has in some respects contributed more to the shape and timbre of contemporary electronic and avant-garde music than anyone else. He&#8217;s blessed with a heightened sensitivity to frequency and a love of bass and subbass which has no doubt enhanced hundreds of recordings and provided him an invaluable, hawk-like view of modern sonic aesthetics. With this in mind, the inspired architecture, dynamics and feel of &#8216;Traditional Music Of Notional Species&#8217; can be heard as a deliberate and hyper-conscious bypassing of staid conventions in melody, harmony and meter, searching out and inhabiting the microtonal spaces between sounds with an in-depth understanding of their complex relationships and structures. Yet, far from being an avant-garde academic exercise, it provides a breathtaking richness of ambiguous human expression and emotional triggers, albeit from the periphery of human experience. His multi-tiered layers of oily quacks, slyding tones, convulsive spurts and spatial displacements present an embarrassment of fictional sonic capital, setting out a new and idiosyncratic grammar of computer music language with an inimitably exotic ancient-futuristic accent. For us it&#8217;s something close to a waking dream rendered in sound, it&#8217;s sincerely one of the most phantastical, far out records we&#8217;ve heard in a while, at once lending a gridless, human\/alien aspect to the harsher sounds of say, Florian Hecker or Andre Vida, with the guile and unswerving, syncretic avant-folk vision of Ghedalia Tazartes and even the soured sensation of Korean classical music. It&#8217;s one of the boldest musical statements on PAN yet, and, if like us you crave genuinely new sonic thrills, this album is an absolute must.<\/p>\n<p>19.50 \u20ac<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/shop\/traditional-music-of-notional-species-vol-i.html\">Buy it<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/shop\/publishers\/pan-recordings.html\">More from PAN Recordings<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Traditional Music Of Notional Species Vol. I. Rashad Becker. 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