RENE HELL/THREE LEGGED RACE - Violin Petal {Auden}/Whipped Secrets

"Rene Hell and Three Legged Race investigate the space where classically outsider musical forms begin to intersect with more popular ones._Ç Taking cues from science fiction and early electronic / tape music and translating them through lens of minimal techno and the personal logic of bedroom recording; both creating something unclassifiable in its hybrid form._Ç Rene Hells four part suite_Ç Violin Petal {Auden}_Ç follows his recent LP on Type with its distinct form of digital synthesis and future-concr_ɬ®te; cyclic music expanding and contracting throughout a cybernetic space._Ç The confusion of communication, control source unknown._Ç Signals crossed along a technological drift._Ç Robert Beattys Three Legged Race presents a three part suite,_Ç Whipped Secrets._Ç Investigating herein an application of early automatic synthesizer music manipulated into linear form based song structure._Ç Developing softly, the first movement sounds like a loner folk recording from a distant future time; complete with vocals, staring sad eyed across an open expanse, contemplating the state of things._Ç Slowly, this form unravels into a more abstract and automatic based territory; rhythmic and melodic staccato signals possessed with an almost intelligent logic of their own._Ç Communication shifts from the man to his machine._Ç In an edition of 400 copies with glossy jackets featuring images by each artist and printed inner sleeves and center labels designed by Jeff Witscher." - Arbor