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| Kaneel - I've sketched it a while ago |
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01 "Mixing children’s keyboard melodies with deftly arranged IDM-beats at first does not sound like a big revolution in music, and yes, it isn’t. But the way Kaneel aka Guillaume Richard mixes them, almost like two or sometimes three independent layers, is still unique. There is so much distance between these parts that you could nicely park a truck in between them, yet there seems to exist an invisible fabric of a multitude of connections between them, that make them move into the same direction. Moreover, the music changes quite a bit all the time within the restricted realms of homespun electronica, so the movements of the various parts could rightfully be described by pointing at the way a swarm of fishes moves in the open sea. Seemingly chaotic and subject to random changes at all time, yet fish nevertheless follow their own routes that are laid down by the route they followed the year before. Big production and putting to effect the mesmerizing qualities of million dollar equipment is not the main vision of Kaneel. Obviously, when the whole album basically was produced in his bedroom by himself. His field of interest lies in the smaller scenes, the etudes or ambience pieces that set a tonality. “Taches de rousseur” is a wonderful example of this: Next to relentlessly changing beats that seem to almost hysterically topple over themselves runs a line of wonderful melodies, some of which sound almost romantic. And I do mean the cultural epoche rather than the emotional state here. In other places, for instance during “cotillons et enfantillage” he turns towards a kind of noise to oppose the nice synthies with that we used to call power electronics back about ten years ago. But here you can hear that the noise does not come from overloading power equipment and heavy tools but from using various kinds of filters and effects on the software. (ie. Renoise).It is mainly the youthful and sprightly spirit of the tracks that keeps me at them. The world currently is trying to recover from too many bedroom-recorded electronica records, it seems, by infusing itself with a horrendous dose of heavy metal and other kinds of sweaty extremist music. Maybe that is just my impression here on this little part of the world, but whatever you try to pinpoint it from with from various angles, it comes down to the fact that some things will never change, and one is that the vision of a talented person solitary working on his music has something to go for. That certain kind of energy that permeats even slow and long winding melodies. But those are broken and battered by more or less chaotic IDM beats all around on “I’ve sketched it a while ago…” anyway.Summer is right at hand, and it is getting way too hot way too early this year. My friends from Egypt as well as from the Eastern Carribbean told me that it is still a little too cold for them, but me I like it a little chilly to get the heat of my skin without getting the cold at my bones. Maybe the fusion of the polar opposites that Kaneel has tried to make work out – and succeeded in many places – will bring a little warmth to me. If not, than at least he has done an admirable job in getting out a small but ineresting and growing piece of electronica that on the surface sounds straight forward, but has deeper meaning hidden. Seems to me that Apegenine has turned out a wonderful place to find music like that, especially with Surasshu or David Kristian on their roster as well. "
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02 "french artist kaneel, curator of the petite&jolie netlabel (and owner of a particularly fetching website), has released a fascinating and original work on the super-exclusive Apegenine Recordings. entitled I've sketched it a while ago, this album is particularly remarkable in the post-techno electronic music world because it features almost no bass frequencies at all! besides this curious fact, it contains a plethora of clicks and cuts, skittering frenetic beats, and chimey chiptune-style melodies. admittedly, its not music for everyone-- the endlessly frantic pace can sometimes become a bit of a sensory overload-- but connoisseurs of post-chiptune music, and those who appreciate music of the playfully weird and wacky variety will find the album this album very charming and unique.
with plentiful high frequencies and carefully-constructed details, this sort of music is certainly best enjoyed at full uncompressed cd-quality. and so, this album may be purchased at the aforementioned Apegenine Recordings shop (worldwide shipping available)."
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03 haven’t heard anything from this label for a while, since their 3rd release “rhythms for a rainy season” by david kristian. it seems that they are dealing with idm variations of sound. and they are proving that on i’ve sketched it a while ago by french musician guillaume richard. on his first release he is showing his great talent in producing complex electronic music. generally we can say that this release is mixture of early warp like drills and bass and new idm forms. but its not so easy to do this. his music is much more than that. lots of glitchy layers are intervowen with hectic beatwork making noisy mash up. suddenly some subtle melody will appear out of nowhere to confuse the listener and make subtle sinks into nostalgia. all seems like ecclectic, chaotic and unstable blend of dreamy and welcoming tenderness and distorted cut up rhythm beautifully colored into weird arrangements. maybe kaneels very own idea of producing this album is to make crossover between harsh noisy structures and explorations into pop melodies, in which he is successful. (td)
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- Fakezine
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apegenine main series | CD/DIGITAL |
Released March 11th 2008 |
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Artwork and design by Vincent Fugère |
Mastered by Twerk |
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01 - Vague départ d'un bateau musical
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02 - Le petit train normand |
05 - Cotillons et enfantillages
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06 - Ma dernière valse
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