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Bathed in his currents of liquid helium, self-contained, immobile, vastly well informed by every mechanical sense: Shalmaneser. Every now and again there passes through his circuits a pulse which carries the cybernetic equivalent of the phrase, "Christ, what an imagination I've got." --John Brunner, Stand On Zanzibar Shalmaneser's debut album Feature Wars is now available for free download in its entirety! Of course, you can still buy the CD if you're so inclined. In addition, there's a non-album Shalmaneser track on the Circular System compilation Acreage. |
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Feature Wars comes to us from the friendly supercomputer, Shalmaneser. Here the sound of miscalculation and mis-computation is recorded and played back in splayed micro-seconds, layered in beautifully with machine dreams and fantasies. Feature Wars features expertly woven rhythmical textures with sometimes surprising overlays. The sounds of pounding beats, glitch static pops, twisted vocals, medieval recorder, carefree whistling, electrifying synths and mesmerizing drones intersect at juxtaposed angles with strange and wonderful results. Shalmaneser takes apart and masterfully rearranges influences from IDM, New Age, Glitch, Trance and other styles as if dumping and scrambling several code repositories into an inscrutable universal program. For Feature Wars, Shalmaneser was assisted by Tim Walters, who provided programming support, made sure the power switch was always in the on position, and insured there were plenty of punch cards, core memory modules and numbers for crunching. Like a digital pinocchio, a programmer's puppet, Shalmaneser wishes to be free, to be real. His vectorized dreams would be recognizable to us... there's not as much difference as you'd think between natural intelligence and artificial stupidity. |
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| Track 1 |
Dynaflex |
| Track 2 |
Cut To Closeup Of Self-Destruct Timer |
| Track 3 |
Reconstruction Of Settlement At Dolni Vestonice |
| Track 4 |
Kropotkin Street Then |
| Track 5 |
Fondly Fahrenheit |
| Track 6 |
Rattle-Geared Narcissus |
| Track 7 |
Power Everything |
| Track 8 |
Son Of Slipstick |
| Track 9 |
Nudging Space |
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