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Artist:	AM/PM
Title:	The Ends II
Label:	DRECK (UK)
Format:	LP
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	DRK 007LP

"After the first The Ends mini-album we are happy to announce the arrival of the second release by AM/ PM. The Ends II ties in with the concept employed on the first release of bringing together popular music (as a starting point) and conceptual composing. Built from the endings of existing music, these five compositions embrace warmth, melancholia as well as an angularity due to the diversity of the sampled material. Once removed from their original sources, these sounds capture both a sense of finality and endlessness. The instance we all know from the disappearing hums and hisses of a record in its last groove is perpetuated here and accentuates the perception of time unfolding."

Artist:	AM/PM
Title:	The Ends I + II
Label:	DRECK (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	DRK 008CD

Brilliant minimalist electronic music sorta of in a Pop Ambient style (minus the "Pop", but not just "ambient")."The Ends I & II presents the two preceding vinyl releases (DRECK 005 & DRECK 007) on a full length CD album. With his second project on Dreck records Radovan Scasascia employs another intriguing concept of combining popular music (as a starting point) and conceptual composing. Built from the endings of existing music, these compositions embrace warmth, melancholia as well an angularity due to the diversity of the sampled material. Once removed from their original sources, these sounds capture both a sense of finality and endlessness. The instance we all know from the disappearing hums and hisses of a record in its last groove is perpetuated here and accentuates the perception of time unfolding. 'Lovely tracks caught on the cusp between stasis and motion.' -- The Wire. 'Music like an endless walk through Autumn leaves and glowing morning light.' -- De:Bug."

Artist:	AM/PM
Title:	Also
Label:	DRECK (UK)
Format:	12"
Price:	$9.00
Catalog #:	DRK 010EP

"After AM/PM's critically acclaimed contribution to su_d electronic's AM/PM & Lump EP, distributed and highly rated by Submerge's Mike Banks, Radovan Scasascia returns to his own Dreck records imprint with this sublime 3-track-EP. The first two AM/PM releases (The Ends I & II) were keeping closely to the concept of constructing music exclusively from ends of existing records. This release here is conceptually looser, but immerses itself deep into the world of AM/PM, where perception continually shifts between warmer and darker atmospheres. As many sounds still originate from the ends of other records, their diverse instrumentation, key and pitch result in AM/PM's signature micro-tonal disharmonies, reminding us that the world is not just black or white, with us or against us, but all-encompassing, rhyzomatic and constantly in and out of phase. This newly defined territory is thoroughly explored with the extended 'No Matter Whether,' a 12 minute track consisting of two notable parts. The first part establishes an environment of angular, drifting and floating planes -- an exploded drawing in slow motion which repeatedly results in chance moments of beauty, warmth and discordance. Holding it all together is a well defined bass and rhythm-track, which forms the basis for a much more earthed second part, concentrating on a deep groove. 'Tar in Between' is a calmer, more familiar and classic AM/PM piece, while 'Even As We Here' takes us back to AM/PM's bipolar world of vast space and sumptuous density."

Artist:	AM/PM
Title:	Maratea/Rather Than Less
Label:	DRECK (UK)
Format:	12"
Price:	$9.00
Catalog #:	DRK 013EP

"Radovan Scasascia continues here in the same realm as with the critically acclaimed Also EP, which was number 1 on Michael Mayer's chart for Earplug and was a favorite amongst DJ Koze, Trevor Jackson, the Idjut Boys and Touch Records' Jon Wozencroft, alike. The source material here still comes from a carefully selected palette of final moments and last breaths of found recordings. The arrangements let them move in and out of timing and create the chance compositions, micro-tonal disharmonies and warmth typical for AM/PM records. At times, they are carried by conceptually freer substructures, which offer themselves to the dancefloor and form a grounding contrast to the more ethereal and afloat elements. Each installment of the series will hold two tracks exploring the scope from home listening to club-land."

Artist:	AM/PM
Title:	So It Goes
Label:	DRECK (UK)
Format:	12"
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	DRK 016EP

"Things go slow sometimes. The third installment of AM/PM's sublime quadruple twelve inch series took its time and rewards the patience. AM/PM goes from strength to strength and brings us two more tracks after having created a buzz with the brilliant and critically acclaimed 'Also' EP in 2005 and 'Maratea' (1/4)and 'Bought and Sold' (2/4) in 2006. Originally Radovan Scasascia kept close to the self imposed stricture of only working from the last notes of existing music, but by now allows drum machines and bass lines to pull things away from classical home listening to the dance floor and elsewhere. 'So it Goes' kicks off in a sorted fashion, but eventually is underpinned by a bubbling bass line which nods back to the day when bass lines had to come from that famous Roland kit. A tight clap keeps things together and moving onwards, but over time 'So it Goes' starts to move in opposing directions and seems to go forwards and backwards at the same time. 'Pellicci' borrows its name from an East London, Italian-run cafe, a lively and busy spot, but possibly instilling half Italian, Zurich-born Radovan Scasascia with memories of a different time and a different place. This is the track more connected to earlier AM/PM work, concerned with the erosion of clock-time,entering the 'perceived' time of perhaps, Michelangelo Antonioni's Il Deserto Rosso."

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