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01. COH - Wave to Beat
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02. COH - Meguro 10-6
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03. COH - Весна-Красна
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04. COH - Ungear Moi
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05. COH - Eena ferroix
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06. COH - Moonviewhigh
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07. COH - Bond Number
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08. COH - Helicon
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01. COH - BECHA-KPACHA (Matmos Asis Mix)
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02. COH - Bond Number (JG Thirlwell Mix)
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03. COH - Ungear moi (John Parish Mix)
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04. COH - BECHA-KPACHA (Matmos Crunchtime Mix)
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05. COH - Eena ferroix (Ryuichi Sakamoto Mix)
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06. COH - Helicon (Drew McDowall Mix)
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07. COH - Beat to Wave
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ARTIST
COH
TITLE
To Beat or Not to Beat
FORMAT
2LP
LABEL
EDITIONS MEGO
CATALOG #
EMEGO 197X-LP
EMEGO 197X-LP
GENRE
ELECTRONIC
RELEASE DATE
11/25/2014
Restocked. Special double set of
COH
's
To Beat
album (released previously as CD) featuring exclusive remixes by
Matmos
,
JG Thirlwell
,
John Parish
,
Ryuchi Sakamoto
, and
Drew McDowall
. Vinyl-only. No digital. Original
To Beat
notes: Picking up right where the last track on the previous COH release
RETRO-2038
(EMEGO 172CD/LP) left off, the new album is focused on the use of beats within the similar aesthetics. While most of the previous COH records openly shy away from accentuated beat structures and instead build up their rhythmical content by layering waves and pulses, every track on
To Beat
is padded with just that -- beats. The music transition is illustrated in the album's artwork, displaying transformation of a sine-wave, a tone, into a waveform which is "beat." This mathematical progression is made audible in the album's opening track. The rest of the album, however, steers clear from dull math and presents the beats in their more traditional context of what could be referred to as "adventurous dance music," taking the listener through various examples of beat use with the sense of playfulness and joy. The final piece, "Beat to Wave," wraps it up by dissolving a simplistic post-techno piece into a tonal chord. This brings back the album's main idea, where tone and beat are essentially one and the same, like vowels and consonants in a language, like Yin and Yang in music.
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