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Sunset Grid releases “Eins zu einer Million” by ＫａｎａｌＶｉｅｒ

29 October 2018 Sunbleach Leave a comment

This week’s album from Sunset Grid is a new full-length from ＫａｎａｌＶｉｅｒ titled Eins zu einer Million. It’s a twenty-two track broken transmission album that distinguishes itself by sampling from German media sources instead of anglophone or Japanese sources. Tracks are slightly pitch-/tempo-shifted and start-and-stop at random moments, much like albums from ghosting, INTERNET CLUB, and Infinity Frequencies. Choice […]

DMT Tapes FL releases “Netzwerk” by ＫａｎａｌＶｉｅｒ

23 September 2018 Sunbleach Leave a comment

I like to imagine that ＫａｎａｌＶｉｅｒ is permanently stuck in the mid-80s, when Western consumerist culture kinda-sorta was filtering into the USSR and associated bloc states. Netzwerk (now on DMT Tapes FL as album number 601) is seven tracks of sample curation featuring corporate muzak and instrumental adult contemporary. Choice track is “Auf Sendung”, which features a hypnotic and […]

DMT Tapes FL releases “Impuls” by ＫａｎａｌＶｉｅｒ

23 June 2018 Sunbleach Leave a comment

Impuls is the DMT Tapes FL version of signalwave. This album from ＫａｎａｌＶｉｅｒ – using full-width characters, as is the custom – is fourteen tracks of extremely short samples repeated several times over the span of a minute or less. Whereas many signalwave artists (e.g. Infinity Frequencies) use a minimalist, melancholic approach to the music or utilize noise, Impuls […]