Browse by Artist: REANIMATOR

Artist:	REANIMATOR
Title:	Reanimator
Label:	COMMUNITY LIBRARY (UK)
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	CL 008EP

"The best thing I've heard all year..." --Philip Sherburne, Critical Beats, The Wire. "The kind of record that will be manna to the ears of all Sahko heads, this eponymous 12" very nearly didn't make it to vinyl with the masters almost destroyed during Hurricane Katrina... it'll just make you treasure it all the more, though. Drawing inspiration from the 'Who's Who' of leftfield minimalism, Reanimator teases strands of Pan Sonic, Vainio and Force Field, then weaves them into a heady tapestry that integrates fluctuating rhythms, dubby shadows and test-tone oscillations into the kind of sound you'd kill to pick up on a decaying pirate broadcast. Opening with the mealy rhythms of 'Clicks and Drones May...', the shadowy Reanimator duo (it's a secret!) proffer the kind of bare-boned take on machine music that makes you fill in the gaps, creating a creative tension that can't help but pique your undivided attention. By no means restricting themselves to a thin-based approach, the likes of 'Special Powers' and 'Blown Subidah' offer forth a richer take on the minimal foothills -- staking the dub upfront and imposing, then letting the delay pedals and fried samplers make merry around them. Given the name 'evil dub' by those responsible, Reanimator's sound is thick yet sparse, recalling the best of Sahko and announcing the appearance of a new cat in the minimal jungle."

Artist:	REANIMATOR
Title:	Special Powers
Label:	COMMUNITY LIBRARY (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	CL 009CD

"Directly inspired by leftfield electronic, noise, and techno artists such as Pan Sonic, Force Field, and Mouse on Mars, but most closely resembling the first of these, Reanimator were experts at improvising heavy, synthetic, syncopated, and dubbed-out minimal beat music using the barest machinery. With a handful of mismatched drum machines, test-tone oscillators, budget samplers, and delay pedals, and improvising directly to 1⁄4" tape, they created a huge body of work, ranging from the pacific, chord-backed 'Phase Constellation' to the polyrhythmic thump of 'Special Powers.' This collection demonstrates the band's rugged 'pirate' ingenuity and DIY inspiration as they forged into the unknown hinterlands of minimal, handmade electro-techno -- or as the band called it then, 'evil dub.' The recently re-formed Reanimator were based in Portland until 2001. Now, the two members (clandestine identities not to be revealed!) split their time between New Orleans, Asheville, North Carolina, New York City, and points in between as they tour extensively with their other group, IPCP (Load Records.)"

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