Label: VHF Records

95年に始動した初期デュオユニットの音源!!1990年にNo Fans Recordsを始動、弾き語り、ミュージック・コンクレート、超高速のリズムトラックまで、常に予測の付かないアプローチで膨大な数の録音を残してきたUKの大ベテランRichard Youngs。1995年に同VHFからリリースしたLPタイトル[Site/Realm]で初共演、主にノイズ界隈の活動で知られRamlehやValley Of Fearにも参加していたMatthew Bowerとのデュオ録音。試聴の通り硬質且つ光沢の強いオルガンやカリンバを乱雑に繰り返すポップなミニマルミュージック集で、やたらと圧迫感の強いテリー・ライリー風の作風が面白い。







Second collaboration between these two stalwart titans of the true UK underground, coming 8 years after their first pairing on the Site/Realm LP. Relayer (the title no doubt a nod to the odd resemblance of 7 year old Rosalie Bower's cover art to another LP of the same title) throws out the live methodology of the LP for a dense set of layered studio recordings. Like the music of Bower's Sunroof! group, the tracks are rainbows of colors and textures with string drone, percussion, bleeps, and the unidentifiable competing in a mix devoid of the traditional "lead with backing" schema. Many tracks have the kind of welcoming electronic bed seldom heard since the demise of Harmonia, with ring modulated fuzz bleeping away over a chugging, but non-oppressive beat. Elsewhere, there's Youngs' Riley-style organ ping-pong, a little virtuoso Kalimba, thick wads of analog synth....you know where this is going.