MP3 Autocreation - Mettle

Dark moody ambient electronic album from Mark Van Hoen (AKA Locust) with musicians Kevin Hector and Tara Patterson, originally released on the Orb's 'Inta Modo' label in 1994

8 MP3 Songs in this album (53:55) !
Related styles: Electronic: Ambient, Electronic: Techno-Dub, Mood: Brooding

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Details:
Mettle by Autocreation (Londoners Kevin Hector, Tara Peterson and Mark Van Hoen, who dubbed up Seefeel's 'Plainsong' to beguiling effect on last years 'Pure-Impure' EP) is also brilliant partly because it doesn't sound like anything else, except perhaps the "End Credits" sequence from a John Carpenter soundtrack. That comparison makes Mettle post apocalyptic, I guess, in that the "End Credits" in Carpenter's films have to detail the numb shock of audience fall out, and project an image of the central characters rebuilding their lives after being visited by cataclysmic events which they barely understand. What Mettle really is, however, is post techno. Perhaps tracks such as 'Protoski' and 'Tomato Dawn' couldn't exist without the last 10 years of popular electronic music, but the inputs have been distilled, hybridised, filtered and cross-referenced to the point that everything that was solid has melted into the thin, rarified are of original thought. You could probably break an Autocreation track down to about four component parts: this is music low on content but high on atmosphere. Like a David Lynch film, Mettle's ultra-minimalist machine compositions turn techno's shiny surfaces into reflectors for the niggling, background detail of your day to home existence; the dust on the carpet, the corpses of insects, the grime around the sink.