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Nick Edwards: Plekzationz

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Artist: Nick Edwards (@)
Title: Plekzationz
Format: CD
Label: Mego
Rated: * * * * *
Named after an EKO organ bought in a charity shop, the artistic alter ego Ekoplekz of Nick Edwards, music blogger on the influential Gutterbreakz blog, began to circulate between electronic music followers since his very first wails and after various releases on various catalogues such as Mordant Music, Punch Drank, Perc Trax, Snug Life, and many others, he finally gains more visibility with this release for the renowned label by Peter Rehberg, whose four long-lasting recordings sounds like a mindblowing collage of other recordings. Edwards' charming and somewhat obscure dub as well as its intertwines with old-fashioned sounds, which are often untreated and uneffected, are really pleaseful: echoes, delays and vibrato on dry and liquid sounds - particularly in the first ("Chance Meets Causality Uptown") and third ("Inside The Analog Continuum") parts - and the addiction of some daydreaming gleaming sounds and bubble-wrapped grooves recalled to my mind some spectacular and entrancing psychedelic rides by electronic dub's pioneers such as Future Sound Of London and Jah Wobble, but there many sonic hints, related to his basic homemade sound equipment - he mainly works on primitive analogue hardware and cassette four-track technology -, which could remind 70ies and firts 80ies psychedelia (I don't think it would be a sacrilege to put Pink Floyd out amidst possible references), whereas a sort of sonic superimposition between dub, krautrock and industrial appears to be an accomplished fact while listening "(No) Escape From '79" (undoubtedly an eloquent title!), the second part of Plekzationz. The fourth and final track "A Pedant's Progress" sounds quite different from the rest of the album: reminiscences of most pompus suites by Cabaret Voltaire, combined with occasional rings and beep, could be associated to the testing of some bizarre atomic clock, powered by some martian fuel, or a door bell made of unknown alloys.

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