The Industrial Twilight: CD-R - "Hide and Seek" [2005]

Monday, June 10, 2019

CD-R - "Hide and Seek" [2005]

Artist: CD-R

Title: Hide & Seek

Genre: Ambient, Noise, Musique Concrete

Country: Russia
Year: 2005

Track List:

Dusty Field
Winter
Still Remains
Remote Control
Demolished Surface
Connector
Punkt
Metro
Plateaux
Untitled

Have you heard about that band called CD-R whose album "700Mb" became a best seller of all times? Jokes aside, CD-R is a Moscow-based experimental music project started by Nikita Golyshev in 2003:

"Use of old soviet synth sand effects combined with modern techniques and laptop makes an interesting combination of different styles of noise music - "fusion noise." Noisey, fractured soundscapes transform into broken rythms and melodys..."

While I certainly wouldn't call "Hide & Seek" harsh noise (it's more on the ambient / field recordings side of things), it's an awesome release that's quite original and not boring at all (unlike many many other noise albums), and the vintage-style cover art is interesting as well. The atmosphere on "Hide & Seek" has been descibed as "futuristic emptiness with human face", which in my opinion is quite accurate.

"CD-R are Nikita Golyshev and Stas Bobkin from Moscow, and their music is much more noise related, but they never go for the full blast of things. They built the tracks with care, but end up in quite forceful sound patterns, where high pitched sounds and feedback work alike. It is worked out quite nicely." - Frans De Waard, Vital Weekly

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