about 18 months ago i had come home from a mental night out with my body being in all sorts of pain after dancing so hard to kevin saunderson's wonderful selection of dark & hard techno music. i ended up in my bed at six in the morning after taking the morning commute with a whole load of people that were probably off to work or whatnot. sleeping the whole day off seemed like a good plan but idiot that i was i left the blinds off and the phone on and i woke up at eleven and couldn't get back to sleep.
i did what i could but i figured i didn't want to fuck up my circadian rhythm and the weather was terrific so the new plan was to go on a half-day. do as little to strain the body and just hang around outside, i took a trip up to stockholm and checked out some recordstores and did eventually purchase fennesz' 1997 debut album "hotel paral.lel" along with a few others albums by other people.
from what i had heard austrian artist christian fennesz' music was seen as something that was as lifechanging as the first time you heard boards of canada or godspeed! you black emperor or sunn o)))) and so on. i had no clue what it sounded like really but i figured that day was as good as anyone to learn. for me it wasn't to that effect but it was amazing and his sonical manipulation was impressive. i felt frequencies fucking my senses and i liked it a lot and the key track at hand was this one, "dheli plaza".
the droning bass that hits you in the beginning was impressive on speakers but on headphones it took my ears on an impressive ride. i did feel that it sounded a bit stephen o'malley-like in but i enjoyed it a lot. when it's broken up by the noise in the middle of the track it brought something new to the soundscape. the glitching buzz and spiking white noise with hard metallic transients is something that i don't take lightly but it worked well in this context.
further on this kind of music makes for a different soundtrack to the hussle and bussle of everyday life as i was enjoying this a few days ago. my sights was stockholms suburbs coloured by the transition of autumn to winter as november becomes more darker and the rain showers are a frequent element. this piece of music that consists of mainly lower frequencies and rewards when you pay attention to it was in symbiosis and contrast with sights, smells and sounds of the outside world.
or something more pretentious than that.
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