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General Magic, Rechenkönig (Mego): Glitch
assimilation continues, with cats like Vladislav Delay sculpting
digital defects into recognizable dance-forms (i.e. glitch-house),
but General Magic continue to be nothing short of arrhythmic
assholes. While peers like Fennesz and Farmer's Manual have, at
times, strayed into whole records filled with "tunes," and others
embrace the repetition of drones, General Magic have never fallen
prey to such easy listening. Since cutting up recordings of a fridge
on Mego's seminal Fridge Tracks, Ramon Bauer and Andreas
Pieper have shattered the patchwork of everyday sound into
non-sequential fragments, taking their treated tones into new realms
of disheartening abstraction. On Rechenkönig they
continue to be frustrating and funny at once, provocatively empowered
by their lack of rhythm. And, as is the way with guilty feet, don't
try to dance to it. — Anthony Carew
copyright (c) 2001 michael goldberg | design by elephantcloud
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