Description:	ltd CDR edition of 100 on Minimal Resource Manipulation, back in!
	Format:	CD
	Genre(s):	Electronica / IDM
	Label:	Minimal Resource Manipulation
	Price:	£7.19
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...according to our Ant on 05 January 2007.

We have a CDr limited to 100 copies on Minimal Resource Manipulation. It's by PLATFORM who is one Matthew Atkins. This is an accomplished work of mostly downtempo electronics. The production has a real crispness to it. The percussion / rhythms are minimal and have an ice cold synthetic techno machine feel but are warmed up with sparse, soulful melodies injecting a human element. 'Dipole' is a top track with its paranoid claustrophobic machinations. An excellent piece of sound design. This really is high quality minimal electronica extremely well executed. One for those that dig the clean Germanic Raster Noton Sound or the very pure Machine sounds of Pan Sonic. The debut release for the Platform project. Certainly a name to look out for in 2007. This one's coming home with me...

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What their label says...

MRM has been set up specifically as an outlet upon which to release my own music and this is the first installment of the Platform project which came into being 2 years ago.

I began making tape collages on a four track tape recorder about 15 years ago, using whatever was at hand as a sound source as well as some beaten up old drum machines and keyboards. The results were pretty lo-fi and were released by Douglas Benford's Suburbs of Hell label in 1995 using the name Minimal Resource Manipulation.

When I decided to release my music myself MRM seemed to be a fitting name for the label, in keeping with the DIY ethos, making something out of nothing and giving a nice sense of continuation. Every aspect of the release is 'home made', from the music itself to the photography, design, packaging and hours of guillotining that went into it's production.

Platform's music has been inspired by the likes of Autechre, Plastikman, King Tubby, Alva Noto, Frank Bretschneider, Pansonic, Philip Glass, Eno, Can and Arvo Part among others.