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Mick Harris & Martyn Bates
12+ albums
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MICK HARRIS continues to be at the centre of all this activity, innovating and iconoclastically instigating. Working with collaborator MARTYN BATES, Harris has evolved 'MURDER BALLADS (Drift)', a subtle yet forward moving development. Essentially the birth of a new form, it is clearly a 'POST ISOLATIONIST' music, dealing with the unique concept of mixing archaic folk-song with isolationism strategems. The POST-ISOLATIONIST position is one where the solipsism of Isolationist music is trascended beyond the parameters of the purely INSTRUMENTAL: i.e. it is the marriage of MUSIC and WORDS in the context of digital abstarction, dizzily spiraling sampling technology, and NON-BEATS. First chapter in the "Murder Ballads" series - dark, rolling tones & chillingly dream-state voices tell four tales of cruelty. A series much lauded & deservedly so. The 'tune' to "Polly" is perhaps the most distinctive among these first four of unlucky (for the characters concerned) thirteen. With is scrawling metal claws scratching the stratosphere. As with all in this series, the songs come from times gone by, bringing murderers and their victims out from a darkness thankfully distant enough to at least let us sleep at night. BATES - angel-voiced as someone once suggested to me - here lurks in the stygian shadows of HARRIS's noise-scapes, following the acts of dark minds, in the case of this collection, probably fictional. The success of this series is little to puzzle at - no one had gone quite th
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albums
Murder Ballads: The Complete Collection
Murder Ballads: Drift
Murder Ballads: Passages
Murder Ballads: Incest Songs
Murder Ballads (Drift)
Murder Ballads (Passages)
Murder Ballads (Incest Songs)
Murder Ballads: Incest
Murder Ballads (The Complete Collection)
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Crooning on Venus (disc 1)
Murder Ballads: The Complete Collection (disc 1: Drift)
Magnetic Submission