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01. BLACK TO COMM - Human Gidrah
02. BLACK TO COMM - Hands
03. BLACK TO COMM - Spectre Teeth
04. BLACK TO COMM - Is Nowhere
01. BLACK TO COMM - 1975
02. BLACK TO COMM - Fackeln In Sturm
03. BLACK TO COMM - Spiralen der Erinnerung
04. BLACK TO COMM - Them
ARTIST
TITLE
Black To Comm
FORMAT
2LP

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CATALOG #
TYPE 120LP TYPE 120LP
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RELEASE DATE
12/9/2014

Hamburg's Marc Richter has been busy with his Black To Comm project since his last appearance under that name on Type, 2009's genre-bending and critically acclaimed Alphabet 1968 (TYPE 053CD). Aside from helming the prolific Dekorder imprint, he's put out a number of musical curios, including 2012's excellent film soundtrack EARTH. Now Richter is back with Alphabet 1968's proper follow-up, a self-titled double album pieced together from crumbling samples, vocal snippets, and an arsenal of noise generators and filters. Richter's material has always been characterized by an air of surrealism, but it's never been more obvious than on the pulsing, chattering opener "Human Gidrah" or in the delirious, fractured pop of "Hands." There are real songs hidden in here somewhere, but they're disintegrated by Richter's sound manipulation techniques and dissolved into soupy, extended drone marathons. The centerpiece is undoubtedly "Is Nowhere," which builds slowly over 20 minutes with rumbling organ sounds and buzzing filters, never losing the listener's attention for a second. Black To Comm is a deeper, more challenging record than its predecessor, but one which repays the patient listener. Richter's dusty, unique sound has never sounded so well-honed and pointed, and it's a patchwork of ideas and fragments that only improves over time. Mastered and cut by Matt Colton. Artwork by Andreas Diefenbach.