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Winters Split PT2

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1.
The Interior 04:20
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2.
Patients 04:55
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3.
Glacial 04:54
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4.
Exterior 03:10
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5.
Swamp 05:42
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6.
Weeping 03:46
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Winters Split Pt 2 is the new EP From Edward Simpson’s ELS moniker.

Mirroring Part 1, the release is another 6 tracks of gloomy ambience and eerie electronics. The music seems to be caught midway between transformation They feel ethereal and elusive but their construction is simple and robust. They feel like song structures but are wordless.

Obviously influenced by techno, but not made for a club, the atmosphere conjured could prove too ominous for comfortable home listening. Clearly this is music designed to be listened to on some kind of subterranean mission.
Any acid-patterns are squelchy enough to bleed out entirely. The speed never entirely picks up beyond a disconcerting lope. A drum machine may appear in a hallucinatory guise, or maybe its the listeners mind playing tricks on them? The melodies seem fractured but not harsh and the entire audio spectrum is smeared from high fm sheen to rumbling bass.

Fans of the held-back elegance of Lussuria or Dedekind Cut will no doubt feel at home with this tape. Both Winters Split cassettes sit in a lineage of synthesiser works that probably begin with Manuel Göttsching’s proto-techno E2-E4. The propulsive and probing nature of the work does in fact recall the strand of Kraut-Rock which dispensed with the ‘rock’ entirely and jetted off to an entirely electronic hemisphere (Harmonia, Cluster, Schnitzler, et al). - Peter Simpson

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released April 9, 2019

Mastered by John Hannon.

Risograph printed insert (black image taken from a painting by Peter Simpson).

Professionally Duplicated.

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