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Software is Mexican Summer's more electronic offshoot run by the Oneohtrix Point Never dude. This 12” is by Harmonizer, two guys from Vermont and one of them has a beard. One of them is also Greg Davis who has hit fame with his various guitar twiddlings over the years. There's a murky tape like sound to the oddball rhythms and guitar interference and it reminds me somewhat of Oneohtrix Point Never as you may expect. There's the odd tantalizing slice of synth bliss which could recall Tangerine Dream or perhaps Enya if you were that way inclined. This will haunt further the hauntology/kosmiche fans out there. The final track puts the two together, soft tribal drums and eerie noises like the soundtrack to an 80's video selling timeshares in the Congo.
Harmonizer, or as lovingly referred to as HARMO around these parts is the Vermont duo of Toby Aronson and veteran zone shredder Greg Davis, whose explorations into pastoral electronics have been well documented by Kranky, Carpark and his own Autumn Records. The duo’s previous effort, a self-titled cassette on Aronson’s own stellar NNA Tapes label was the definitive “5th World” statement and solidified them with the koan of nu free electronic music shared by the likes of fellow melodic noisers Caboladies and Oneohtrix Point Never. On WORLD COMPLETEHarmo boggles brains via the storied terrain that Jon Hassell once charted, adding sub bass, magic eye loops and some fusion gomf that is makes them decidedly more On The Corner than Aka-Darbari-Java. But who needs to be convinced about a band named after the most dramatic stompbox of the late 20th century. We don’t. Band burns, this EP burns. Sayonara
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