Reviews of After [12k1017]

Before you listen to After, you may consider your own appreciation for odd, low-level micronoise

…Also very good “Afterimage”, a previously unreleased composition of filtered tones and trails of bass roarings, which Chartier contribute with to a work with Taylor Deupree and Kim Cascone.

The music is beautiful – soft, creepy cricket chirps smatter about, turning occasionally into digital noise.

Evidence surely that this “genre” is by no means one-dimensional or static, but rather is living and breathing with new ideas that are nowhere near running out.

It’s classy stuff, and yields much when subsequently “reconstructed” (about time we dispensed with the word “remix” for good) by each artist in turn.

The talent evident here is the turning away from the simplicities of the all too common DSP techniques used by so many laptoppers. Instead, the threesome opts for more architectonic movements, as subtle and quiet as the movement of glaciers

Kim Cascone, Richard Chartier and Taylor Deupree on one night must be for the laptop freaks a dream becomes true.

An intruiging compositional study.