Curd Duca - Elevator 3

From Allmusic.com : "Self-described as "digitalanalog mood music," Curd Duca's Elevator 3 album jams together 48 short pieces of sound montage, using digital processing to splice together and manipulate warm acoustic sounds. Five of the songs employ the soothing vocals of Carin Feldschmid, bringing these otherwise entirely abstract pieces closer to our schema of a traditional song; the humanity of her voice elevates these songs to the status of being the most memorable moments on the album. Yet even these few songs with vocals tend to pass by unconsciously as Duca quickly transitions from one song to the next so smoothly that only the most attentive listeners will notice. And keep in mind that Duca doesn't expect the listener to be attentive; he doesn't call it mood music for nothing. The music tends to flow in a stream of consciousness-like manner, from one brief moment of acoustic sound to the next. There are few salient moments and virtually no dominant rhythms, only subtly pulsing beats, fading samples, and breaths of quiet noise. This lack of salient attributes combines with the short track length and seamless transitioning to create the essence of poetic mood music that never gets tedious or monotonous; it isn't funky, melodic, or very beautiful, but it is rather calming."

"Elevator 3" was released by Mille Plateaux in 2000.

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Curd Duca - Elevator 2

From Allmusic.com : "The productions of electronic mood music figure Curd Duca look back to the late-'60s dawn of popular synthesizer music, the age of Wendy Carlos' classical-synth fusions and studio producers who experimented with computer music by yoking it to pop pieces. Duca's been in the music business since the early '80s, originally playing keyboards for the German groups Auch Wenn Es Seltsam Klingen Mag and 8 Oder 9 -- the latter released a half-dozen LPs during the '80s. In 1992, he recorded his solo debut, Easy Listening, the first in what became a five-volume series on Normal Records that took up most of the subsequent four years. Moving to the solid experimental/techno label Mille Plateaux in 1997, Duca released Switched-On Wagner, a series of synthesizer translations of works originally by the German romantic giant Richard Wagner. The following year, he inaugurated yet another series, Elevator, each volume of which included dozens of short tracks in a muzaky mode."

"Elevator 2" was released by Mille Plateaux in 1999.

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Curd Duca - Elevator

From Wikipedia : "Curd Duca (born 14 March 1955) is an Austrian musician, composer and producer of electronic music. He has played in the experimental groups "Auch Wenn Es Seltsam Kingen Mag", "8 ODER 9" and "Skin". Starting in 1992, he has been working mainly on solo projects with electronic instruments.

Curd Duca is known for his work with audio samples that get altered, cut-up and "re-contextualised". The audio is taken from analog sources and mostly used without beats. Rhythmic structures are created, originally by loops, more recently by micro-cuts and improvisation with parameters of granular synthesis. From 1996, his albums were released on the experimental/techno label Mille Plateaux."

"Elevator" was released by Mille Plateaux in 1998.

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Audiolab [2 x CD Boxset]

From the liner notes : "Audiolab is made up of a series of different sound pieces, specifically produced to be diffused inside an architectural module, created by young French designers. This space or listening chamber has been made to receive the visitor and allow for the optimal and environmental diffusion of sound. Patrick Jouin, Erwan and Ronan Bouroullec as well as Laurent Massaloux have in this way each created a listening and sound immersion module, in which the sound works are diffused and made spatial.

This compilation brings together the works produced by Audiolab 1 and 2, respectively conceived by Patrick Jouin and the Bouroullec brothers."

Audiolab 1 :
1-1   Alejandra & Aeron – Pueblos Asolados, Underwater Villages
1-2   Monolake – Idle_Time
1-3   Laetitia Bénat – Tahl (AA Edit)
1-4   Rupert Huber – A Movement In The Waiting Room
1-5   Rebecca Bournigault – Intentions
1-6   Radio Mentale – Thousands Of Records (Walking Tree Mix) featuring David Toop
1-7   Henrik Plenge Jakobsen – Plasmatic Prisms
1-8   Vladislav Delay – Stand-Alone

Audiolab 2 :
2-1   To Rococo Rot – Untitled
2-2   Dorine_Muraille – Branleuse, With Attitude
2-3   AGF – DownBYtheLAKE
2-4   Doug Aitken & Steve Roden – Time Can't Stop Now Part 1
2-5   Doug Aitken & Steve Roden – Time Can't Stop Now Part 2
2-6   Doug Aitken & Steve Roden – Time Can't Stop Now Part 3
2-7   Cameron Jamie – Spook House Field Recording
2-8   Curd Duca – Digitalanalog Suite
2-9   Xavier Veilhan & David Artaud – Dourdan

"Audiolab" was released by Lucky Kitchen in 2003.

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