Techno Unit 30 Audiochrome InternationalAudiochrome Inc. Approaching utter two-lane blacktop anonymity, Larry Kucharzs pure Techno project paradoxically has ten times more personality than most CDs here. To add insult to injury, two of its (best) tracks are remixes of a 1970s piano work and a 1982 computer work. Its not hard to discern the ripples of a flexible and reflexive intelligence behind the apparent Same of Kucharzs audiochromatics: block grid artwork, track titles reduced to progressive markers of the same Repeat(U301>309) Beat; a musical tenor which echoes Blanchots phrase the interruption of the incessant. This is the second column in a row where Ive had my Tekno prejudices flattened, and Ill be re-searching Kucharzs full-spectrum back catalog pronto. in brief electronica Ian Penman The Wire ---------------------------------------------------- also "Unit 25: Dark Red" is a triumphant computer music achievement by Larry Kucharz. He has created some minimalist funereal atmospheres that generate introspection. Each composition is titled a shade of red preceded by "dark." The funereal images are dark, almost satanic. They are frightening. This is Halloween ambience. Jim Brenholts - from his soon to be published book -----------------------------------------------------------
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