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Andrew Duke "Just Because You Can Doesn't Mean You Should"
Social conciousness acheived through a blending of natural and manufactured sounds.
Since this is about environmental decay and physical and mental deterioration as side-products of modern life, Just Because You Can Doesn't Mean You Should is a darker, more experimental album than Andrew Duke's techno album, Sprung (released on France's Bip-Hop). "Boil Order", for instance, uses audio captures of a natural harbor into which untreated sewage is pumped. Such turnings of a thing of beauty into a rotten cesspool do not make an easy listen, however. Some of the album is quite hectic (e.g. "Results Not Process"), but there are quieter soundscapes too. All in all, this should make an excellent soundtrack to an avant garde hallucinatory documentary of what Alaska will soon look like.
Patrick Vandenberghe - Ultra
It's a strange time for an electronic musician to put on an environmental guise, but veteran musician/radio host/writer Andrew Duke was never one to follow the rules of others. His ecological message to save Halifax's maritime resources is carefully hidden amongst creatively synthesized blips and a generous number of wind and water samples, with all elements polluting, processing, and cross-pollinating each other. Far from being New Age, Just Because You Can Doesn't Mean You Should showcases an angry, dysfunctional Mother Nature at odds with her treatment--no easy harmony here. This is a very dark, deep ambient listen, one that requires you to pay close attention to hear Andrew Duke's music. The rewards, however, are certainly there.
Andrew Schrock - Weekly Dig
Impressive tracks that range from dark ambient to processed field recordings to glitchy experimental material (including a murky tapestry that reminds me of a Coil-meets-Mego kind of sound) with my favorite track ("Boil Order") being one in which Andrew Duke samples and manipulates the sound of lapping waves. Just Because You Can Doesn't Mean You Should is an unsettling dark ambient voyage that would fit perfectly with the best Lustmord can do.
Lance McGannon - Inaudible
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Last updated 06/22/08
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