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FOCUS ON: Hecuba
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- Label: Manimal Vinyl >>
- Genre: Electronic/Experimental
An eclectic electro-themed duo supposedly born in Brooklyn but currently tucked away in Echo Park, they are the best new thing I've heard in months. Limewire by al sotack
Have you heard much post-minimalism by Philip Glass? It's all separation and dissection, one moment in time isolated and distributed across space. A premise gets broken into its simplest parts. (Check out David Ives' play, Philip Glass Buys A Loaf Of Bread.) An occurrence becomes a sentence then dissolves into syllables, and inherently breaks further still, until we arrive at the absolute of precision: beats. Glass would love Hecuba's debut album Paradise.
He'd want to slice it into a million pieces and decorate a tree with it. He'd say Isabelle Albuquerque was a great rapper because she extends a natural line across time, plucking each word out and re-emphasizing its constellation.
