Today I’m going to do something a little different. I propose to randomly go through unread promo e-mails listening to songs until I find something worth posting about.
And here, on only the 11th e-mail, I encounter something intriguing. The artist is Decomposure, and I’ll even break tradition a bit and quote directly from the promo material rather than trying to put this into my own words:
Decomposure is Caleb Mueller, a 24-year-old Canadian from the prairies of Saskatchewan. With a tape recorder in tow, he recorded his day’s activities to capture and preserve its unique sound signature that would otherwise have evaporated. Over the course of a year, he digitally deconstructed hour-long slurs of sound into hundreds of individual clicks, thumps and pings. The result is an eclectic collage, almost completely removed from its nondescript origin.
It’s a pretty neat project, with an end result of a series of tracks titled “Hour 1,” “Hour 2,” and so on. The first is my favorite – exactly the kind of faux-organic electro-pop that I adore, all glitchy and warm and deceptively packed from layer to layer.
Hour 1 – Decomposure
You can pick up Vertical Lines A directly from his Blank Squirrel label if you want the full DVD+CD experience, or any of the tracks from eMusic. I’d also recommend Hour 7 if you’re looking for another to check out.