Squidco: Homogenized Terrestrials: The Contaminist

The Contaminist

Phil Klampe , aka Homogenized Terrestrials, uses acoustic instruments, sparse, often ethnic percussion, human voice and analog synth sounds to create a tapestry of emotional electronic work, eerie and dreamlike music with a warm accessibility.

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Label: IntangibleCat
Catalog ID: CAT-16
Squidco Product Code: 17940

Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2013
Country: USA
Packaging: Cardstock gatefold foldover

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"Phil Klampe has finished a new recording after two years of accumulating a hefty amount more of hi-tech equipment and having plenty of time to think. The Contaminist is a more carefully composed, arranged, edited, and mixed collection than earlier albums. It has a gentle impact, utilizes more tonality, and is generally more grounded in a world of emotions than in the parallel dimensions of incomprehensibility often evoked by his compositions of the past, though many far-reaching and unfamiliar sounds are still summoned up from the guts of the circuitry and woven into the mix. The pieces gathered on The Contaminist are dramatically eerie and dreamlike, putting it in line with some of Robin Storey, Mark Spybey, Coil, Brian Eno, or Christian Fennesz' recordings. The palette includes the sounds of acoustic instruments and sparse percussion, often ethnic in nature. Human voices and analog synth sounds are carefully placed in many pieces, lending perfect warmth. Out of all of H.T.'s 36+ releases, this is his most smooth, peaceful, rich, and evocative. A studied volume of ambient magic."-Intangible Cat

Track Listing:

1. dna in the dirt 4:08

2. yek topek 3:54

3. contaminist 4:58

4. two ay emm 4:18

5. sroa 4:14

6. spurk 7:04

7. gravity reversed 3:44

8. shinth 2:38

9. forn poclipse 3:20

10. plastic resonance key 7:34

11. antiques 3:08

12. the end is always near 2:12

13. truth egg 7:00

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