CARBONDATING, by Small Rocks

CARBONDATING

by Small Rocks

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	1.	Portable Theme for GRANYTE works PLC 01:09
	2.	RONCO
	3.	Muchachos Gordos 02:03
	4.	Coprolites 03:10
	5.	Clodhopper
	6.	Rule Of Thumb 03:33
	7.	Carbondated 03:14
	8.	Buzzardpump Cover-Up 03:37
	9.	Stalacloose 02:54
	10.	Cosmetic Ray
	11.	Sedimentary 03:44
	12.	Some Minerals Have No Cleavage 02:48
	13.	Martian Housing Crisis
	14.	Borehole ( additional track ) 04:23
	15.	Unengaged Tone ( additional track )

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CARBONDATING by Small Rocks
Originally Released on HOT AIR, 28th January 2002
catalog no= airbrick 008 barcode= 5 029385 16127 9, tracks = 13,

" Einsturzende Neubauten would have been proud. "
Olli Siebelt, BBC music Website
read the full review here: www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/n8rg

NEWSFLASH!
Surplus to the 2 additional tracks unearthed by Hot Airs slightly soiled Datarcheologists, the other good news is....
ALL tracks have been REMASTERED for the USB generation:
Great care and a certain amount of effort has been made to sift out accumulated alluvial sediment, reverse historical lithification and polish a lot of the sharper schistostic striations until the original intended subduction zones in these recordings are revealed in full pyroclastic fury.
CAVEAT: this might not be particularly audible at the bit rates bandcamp streams at, so BUY the FRACKING full quality download and compare notes with yr Geomorphologic spotting pals WDY? (please & thank you)

( original press release ) - What is this record? : Hard to pin down... Matt Wand returns under yet another pseudonym,, with a collection of tracks roughly hewn from the very rock beneath us... On the face of it this could be popular music, but popular music made by banging large rocks together, recording it into a computer and grinding the numbers until they resemble rough diamonds mixed with gravel. this is definitely ''Missing Link'' music... somehow succeeding in bringing together Primitive Space Rock, ''the Cut-up Beat Technique'', Laptop Distress & the Archeology of Ancient Video Games..... and more importantly getting them all to talk to each other.. This record is possibly also the missing link between the Totally Misunderstood pioneering past of Stock, Hausen & Walkman and the Absolute Unrepentant Future of Mr Wand.. As the title '' Carbondating'' suggests this album has many layers of compressed noise history, it sounds quite Unforgivingly Modern but every once in a while a small piece of the Barbaric Musical past will erupt upwards and present itself for the listener to test his Anachronism Spotting capabilities. This is your average Anal Record Shop Assistants perfect filing Nightmare, should it go under '' Pre-Savant Post Rock'' ? or ''HIP CLIP 'n' BIP-HOP''? or '' Happy Nihil-Reggae''? maybe '' ElectroCranial off-Beat Juggling '' ? or perhaps '' Primitech Bitch Hoe-Down '' well perhaps ''New Releases'' would do for a start and after that just file under ''Hot Air'' the home of the un-organisable and the un-reviewable.. Apologies if all this makes the record sound as hospitable as the surface of Mars after the Americans have made sure there are no ''Terrorists'' lurking there either... Its NOT like that at all , This Record Swings, it Hops, it burns bright like Nicky Lauders Hot Hairpiece, it IS THE CAVE in which several species of small furry animals Grooved with that Pict!!! it's a Nasty piece of work very Nicely done... Matt Wand is a Musical Mountianeer caught in a stylistic Avalanche , He will reach the top, we just don't know when or how.. Meantime the view from this ledge is vertigo inducing..

For More of "this sort of thing" by Mr Wand, Stock, Hausen & Walkman and others go to: hot-air.bandcamp.com

credits

released January 1, 2002

All tracks Evolved by Matt Wand, recorded inside Dicky's Skull (Salford)
Vocals on track 8: Emiko Ota, m@w& and others.
Vocals on track 13: a Martian.

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Small Rocks Eccles, UK

Matt runs the Independent Record Label HOT AIR. He formed the seminal electronic sampling & improvising group Stock, Hausen & Walkman in 1989 and also works under various other pseudonyms, Small Rocks being one.
He has remixed many people ie: Ground Zero, PULP, Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Hawkwind, Peter Thomas, Steve Reich, Buffalo Daughter, Lady Miss Kier, Thurston Moore. ... more

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