Machinefabriek
Weleer

Love this record? Hate it? Tell us.

What their label says...

Disc 1: 1) Oi Polloi 2) Uiterwaarde 3) Chinese Unpopular Song 4) Color Rosa 5) Hieperdepiep 6) Voor het Meisje met Mijn Dooie Mus 7) Onweer 8) Stotterpiano 9) Roes 9 10) Wintervacht.
Disc 2: 1) Schrijven 2) Donderwolk 3) Bye Bye Boat, Bye Bye Building 4) Kale Bomen Langs de Weg 5) Gruis Uit het Plafond 6) Lief 7) Rose 4 8) Carps 9) Maris 10) Ryan 11) Fluister 12) Monster

-The latest release from Holland's prolific mad scientist of experimental music Rutger Zuydervelt!

-Compiles the finest moments from Zuydervelt's extensive catalogue of over 30 3" cd releases.

-Noise, acoustic experimentation, drone and fractured electronics are all combined for one of the year's most surprising and devastating albums.

It seems like only yesterday when Dutchman Rutger Zuydervelt's debut album 'Marijn' appeared on the scene and confounded listeners the world over. Where had this guy come from? Who was he? What was he doing? Very soon these questions would lead to the musician's stunning and regular supply of home-made 3" cdrs, a project which Zuydervelt had been working on since 2003 and is still working on today, so it was almost inevitable that at some point a compilation would have to be made from the series' finest moments. After a long period of deliberation, Lampse boss-lady Monika Herodotou and Zuydervelt came up with the perfect selection - two full cds of audio which play like 'proper' albums rather than simple, haphazard collections of tracks yet still contain enough audio insanity to confirm the rumour that Machinefabriek is a true musical enigma. It strikes us as quite horrifying how a man can actually produce this volume of music while keeping such an obvious level of quality control but somehow he does it - there's not a dull moment over Weeler's 22 varied tracks. From the Eastern-flecked tongue-in-cheek gorgeousness of 'Chinese Unpopular Song' to the ear-shattering cave-dwelling noise of 'Hieperdepiep', and from the squealing power-electronics of 'Bye Bye Boat, Bye Bye Building' to the truly epic 20 minute grandeur of 'Lief', there is truly something here for every listener. There is of course a great deal of hype surrounding Rutger Zuydervelt at the moment, and if you want to find out what the whole Machinefabriek thing is about anyway, there couldn't be a better place to start than 'Weeler'. We
simply couldn't imagine a finer collection of disturbed experimental music…