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Here is the other side of Atlas.
These tracks are quite a bit more intimate and close than the huge oceanic expanse of his last album.
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I've gushed about Tim Hecker way way too much here on MOG. He's my favourite musician. I find his deconstructions of musical elements to be moving and deeply inspirational. Like I've written elsewhere, it sounds like either remembering or forgetting, or some kind of recorded stream of that process happening in someone or even in a landscape, like an architecture remembering its future. But this enfolding/unfolding is what really captures me, a delicate process of arrangeme... MORE
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2. Tim Hecker - Dungeoneering (from "Harmony in Ultraviolet")A rotating, cyclical machine sound, full of life but cold as death. This is the sound that power pylons make on cold winter nights, as they sing to each other songs about high-frequency oscillation and its effects upon snowflakes. Industrial yard lights spire up into the frozen sky, shimmering a quiet hymn to the groaning aurora borealis above. As the pylons reverberate, their cyclical hum rolls lower and lower, ... MORE
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Here we go, the end of the album reviews! Now that it's April I feel embarrassingly late posting this, but I'm glad I got it all done.I'll upload my top 10 favouring songs of 2006 in separate tracks, each with an mp3 embed! 1. Tim Hecker - Harmony in Ultraviolet What more about this album can I say than I already have? Well, a lot actually - and that's a testament to how incredible this album really is. It keeps speaking to me and keeps on revealing new things abou... MORE
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Hokay. I know some other social services like LJ have an API that allows third-party apps to interact with their respective sites. Like... standalone post management clients for LJ. That sort of thing.
Is there something similar for MOG? Preferably for OSX?
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I would like to gush about one of my favourite genres of new music, and one of my favourite artists that operates around the genre. The "genre" in question is deconstructionist electronic, and the artist is Tim Hecker, who I would have no problem in calling the best and most important musician in Canada. This genre is actually pretty small but I feel very influential - the two other big daddies in this group are Christian Fennesz and William Basinski, though Tim Hecker's... MORE
