Transmission
13 – Time Will Pass You By (Assembly Field)
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Ambient
drone Transmission 13 release their new album.
A fourth
album in four years for Transmission 13 and the brainchild behind the project,
Maurice Doogan has only gone and done it again.
Time Will Pass You By, the first album for a ‘real’ label comprises of
ten tracks mixed as one to create a joyous episode of high-tech clinical
ambience that will both impress and delight.
For the
first time, there are collaborations – Ullapul, Antonia de Braga, Placement –
and with openers Data Funk and Tangled And Wild Ivan Black assists to make T13s
already wondrous tracks even more intriguing.
Imagine
sitting in an empty boat, gliding over still waters through a darkened cave
with only a candle light for vision as droplets of water fall from stalactites
into the crystal waters around you.
Imagine floating up above the fields, the continents, the World and drifting
amongst the cold shimmering stars.
Transmission 13 will take you there. Even an appearance by an echoing
bagpipe fits in beautifully.
There are
succinct sound bytes lovingly inserted throughout too. Philosophy and time travel and even a
discussion on punk rock in Punk Wreck, Fans Riot featuring one John Peel
talking the simple sense that the great man used to. A reference to ‘punk clergy’ is marvellous.
Where Doogan
succeeds in the often criticised world of Ambient is in his rather unique
ability take the simple of sounds and ideas and re-assemble in sumptuous layers
and patterns to create a sound which is fastly becoming his own. The rising bass tone of The Stars Shine
Through The Darkness (with Matt Barlow) threatens to explode but manages to
maintain a dignified decorum that he only seems to be able to achieve.
After each
album, it’s difficult to see where the sound can go next and how it can better
itself, but it appears that Transmission
13 is in safe hands and we can now relish next year’s album number 5 with
confidence.
8.5/10
Links
8.5/10
Links
Assembly Field
Transmission 13 on Soundcloud
Transmission 13 on Bandcamp
Transmission 13 on Twitter
Transmission 13 on hiapop Blog
Published on Louder Than War 15/08/14 - here
Transmission 13 on Soundcloud
Transmission 13 on Bandcamp
Transmission 13 on Twitter
Transmission 13 on hiapop Blog
Published on Louder Than War 15/08/14 - here
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