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.
Black vinyl, special-size full color sleeve, limited edition of 500 copies.
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)