Name: Magnetic Chapters
Brand: Bass Clef

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

WSR010

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Colour

black

Colour details

Discogs ID

Discs

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2021-08-06

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Cargo

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

5056321642387

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

Artist

Bass Clef

Genre GB

Techno / Electro

Label GB

Wrong Speed Records

The poles may alter their flow. What was pushed back can be pulled in. Stuff is too fargone to re-touch, but there is dirt and pearls out in the wilderness that still transmit. Spiritlevels are constantly re-referencing. The music fluctuating within Magnetic Chapters is irrational and effervescent. There are spaces, the electro-energy gives and grounds, in which we can invest life into. This is room music, take a seat, wander round, flex. We, the dear listener, can take flight. Have big warm trust in the soul of this music. Magnetic Chapters has angles and angels, from these it's built on: Butoh, Lone Swordsmen, Acid Rain, Childhood Skies, Disco-centric Loft Life. There are Tubby-esque trap-doors, but if you submit there will be rich green moss to catch you. Bass Clef has ripped out some 12” bangers in his story, but the drums here are close and distant at the same time, like smoke signals at night, they envelop the listener. The airbrushed darkness that pervades so much 'production music' is banished from Magnetic Chapters with a homemade Ursula Le Guinn-like sadness. There is a real tactile sense of the blackened kettles from Arthur's Kitchen in this music. Bass Clef seems fully at home. Following on from 2020’s cassettes Orezero for Slip and Maze Greys for FrequencyDomain, alongside a timely reissue of Inner Space Break Free originally from 2011, finally vinyl-ised by Wrong Speed, Magnetic Chapters focus is on the more scenic, rhythmic pattens of our world (and alien others). Tracks like 'Intergalactic Biodomes' use pattens and sequences that suggest undulating hills and coombes, ones that stretch out into the ocean. The Sun beams and Full Moons seem to be guiding this well timed instrumental music (similar to Delia Derbyshire, This Heat, Sachiko M, David Pajo) this co-dependent support system allows us to go off-beat into a dreamlike state with each musical escapade. The sensation of listening to these ample and giving tracks, like 'Scintllater' or 'Glacier Beams' are akin to being waken to a room full of ghostly beings all wanting to reach out to you and request you glide with their otherworldly experiences. When things are changing, move with them.

Magnetic Chapters

Music GB