Machinefabriek

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4...according to our Ant on Thu 06 May, 2010.

It never ceases to amaze me how prolific Rutger Zuydervelt is and yet the quality of his work is always super high quality. Joining the artist here are Richard Skelton along with Greg Haines and Anne Baker. Here Zuydervelt is in fine form creating nostalgic ambience full of grain and crackle. It sort of feels like a lost archive that's been degraded by time. This features 5 tracks, three of which were only available on 3" CDr. Again a fantastic journey into the mysterious and unique world of Machinefabriek. The sequence of the tracks is excellent and works really well as a secret story slowly unfolds.

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The tracks on Daas have been carefully picked to form a provoking, haunting journey. What the tracks have in comon is a sense of nostalgic graininess. As with the music of Philip Jeck, The Caretaker or William Basinski, these tracks are full of degrading melodies and dusty ambience.

'Daas' is the previously unreleased opening track of the album, and feautures contributions by the great Richard Skelton. This track was made as a reaction to the piece 'Koploop'. 'Flotter', 'Koploop' and 'Grom' were previously available on small run self released 3" CDRs. Sold out for some time now, these tracks deserved a wider audience. These three long tracks also seem to come from the same galaxy, making perfect sense when put together. 'Onkruid' was a track previously released on 'A Room Forever', as an expensive and extremely limited 12" boxset, now brought to a wider audience.

Presented in a matt-laminate digipak.