Reviews of Live In Melbourne [12k2008]

With far too much detail to be ambient, and not enough audible presence to be techno, the tracks on this disc (which really should’ve been packaged with a great pair of headphones) are totally engrossing.

This cd is an exhibition of post digi-costic music. It shows that such sound has established itself completely.

strictly for ascetic aesthetes who think that Chain Reaction is all ornamental frippery, Raster-Noton offers too much pleasures and Mille Plateaux is just too straightfaced.

Taylor Deupree is quickly building 12k into one of north america’s most respected, innovative experimental labels.

Era una bella serata di aprile dello scorso anno.

We’re in lo-fi territory That suits the tone of the disc perfectly though, somehow humanising the crisp, pristine brilliance of Deupree’s sound and aligning it with the earthier sounds of Solo Andata and Seaworthy.

Live in Melbourne is another excellent release from 12k documenting a live performance of some the best comtemporary electronic and post-electronic music out there.

Live in Melbourne is one great concert that we’re lucky to have captured for eternity.

On a whole, there is a reasuring, wraparound quality to much of this recording, like soaking in a forest pool.

Someone had obviously closed the door at the right moment, locking out all madness, stress, insanity, questions of politics and the confusion which goes with a world at war with itself.

everything appears as recognizable yet actually isn’t.

A relatively simple drone, sparse, organ like, with the sound of snowflakes falling about.