Kaaos in Eccentris / Liddikoatight & Leif Elggren : split 7″
February 20th, 2004, 9:03 | category: Releases | tags: Ibrahim Terzic, Kaaos in Eccentris, Kouhei Matsunaga, Leif Elggren, Liddikoatight, Mockingwyrd, Niko Skorpio, Ovro, Shop
SPE7SP04031 | Some Place Else 2004
Tracklist:
A1. Kaaos in Eccentris : No-one Takes One Too Free
B1. Liddikoatight & Leif Elggren : Trapezoid
Playing time 10 minutes.
7″ black vinyl, special-size full color sleeve, limited edition of 500 copies. Price: 6.00 EUR. Free shipping worldwide.
Kaaos in Eccentris – on this session Mockingwyrd, Ovro, Niko Skorpio and Ibrahim Terzic – create an oddly trance-inducing, almost groovy piece that limps forward powered by the combination of hypnotic bass and crackling rhythms. Liddikoatight is a new Japanese band with Kouhei Matsunaga among others. Leif Elggren, from Sweden, has worked with sound and performance art since 1980 and has a long list of releases, books and live-performances under his belt. For this record, Liddikoatight and Leif Elggren collaborated via telepathy. Mix of the results form the track Trapezoid.
Reviews
“Very freeform noise-gibbling split this time from Finland’s Kaaos In Eccentris and a collaboration between Sweden’s Leif Elggren and Japan’s Liddikoatight (Some Place Else 7″). The Kaaos side is a wide-ranging, small-handed glitch slap to the face of some television reporter who is “just trying to do his job”. The second side sounds like someone pouring sand into the guts of an analogue synth, while a bound and gagged engineer watches from across the room, writhing against a patch panel and picking up shortwave transmissions with his teeth. It’s hard to listen to while driving a lawn tractor. So exercise caution.” (The Wire)
“Kaaos in Eccentris (Finland) begins with No-One Takes One Too Free, revolving around rumbling ambient textures and noises with a subtle percussive rhythm and some throbbing foreground tones. It gets a bit rougher around the edges with some bizarre distortion and slightly more chaotic arrangements in a sense, but still remains controlled. Tangible basslines can be heard as well, nothing too structured though. Liddikoatight & Leif Elggren (which I think is a Swedish/Japanese collaboration) take side B with Trapezoid, which is much more frantic in its use of thin, glitchy distortion, though it does have some strangely obscure melody to it as well. It certainly has an improvisational feel to it, it’s got a flow, but nothing strikes me as planned out or anything. I actually really love the distorted textures and noises, but the more random musical side is really sort of irritating to me. The 7″ comes in a nice ¾ sleeve that lets some of the vinyl stick out, using a good balance of colorful and minimal art between the two projects, along with some succinct recording information. I’m not bowled over by this material at all, but it’s pretty cool. Certain aspects I find immensely interesting, and certain aspects I find rather dull. So I don’t prefer one track over the other, but rather bits and pieces of each track that I feel could be further explored to yield a more complete whole.” (Aversionline)
“Some Place Else continues to release split 7″s, here by Kaaos In Eccentris and a collaborative effort by Liddikoatight & Leif Elggren. Kaaos In Eccentris is a new group from Finland with Some Place Else artists such as Niko Skorpio, Ibrahim Terzic, Ovro and Mockingwyrd. They hook up their laptops, bass, effects, synths and devices and their No-one Takes One Too Free has a slowed down bass playing (rather battling) against a wall of laptop sound, slowly burning down from inside out. Recorded via telepathy is the collaboration between reknowned Swedish artist Leif Elggren and Liddokaotight, the group with Kouhei Matsunaga, Imany and Akiko. Their telepathic work Trapezoid results in turntable noise and a loose improv on instruments and objects. Rather a mish-mesh of sound going here, which is not rather focussed.” (Vital Weekly)
