Minidisc

by Gescom

Minidisc cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 27 July 1998
  • Label: Touch
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 1:07:43
  • Community rating: 3.35/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

The shadowy electronic collective鈥攚idely known to feature Autechre's Sean Booth and Rob Brown鈥攔eleased this conceptual album exclusively on the MiniDisc format. Utilizing the format's gapless random-shuffle feature, the recording consists of 88 extremely brief fragments of harsh glitch and noise, designed to generate a chaotic, infinite aleatory composition.

Genres

Descriptors: instrumental, avant-garde, aleatory, experimental, electronic, deconstructed, unpredictable, fragmented

Tracklist

  1. Cut Begin (0:15)
  2. Cut Begin (0:11)
  3. Cut Begin (0:14)
  4. Cut Begin (0:08)
  5. Cut Begin (0:13)
  6. Cut Begin (0:16)
  7. Cut Begin (0:21)
  8. Amendment 84 (1:06)
  9. Helix Shatterproof (1:07)
  10. A Newer Beginning (0:07)
  11. A Newer Beginning (1:09)
  12. Polarized Beam Splitter (0:38)
  13. Polarized Beam Splitter (0:09)
  14. Polarized Beam Splitter (0:43)
  15. Polarized Beam Splitter (1:20)
  16. Polarized Beam Splitter (0:23)
  17. Inter (2:42)
  18. R M I Corporate ID 1 (0:09)
  19. Pricks (0:24)
  20. Pricks (3:56)
  21. Pricks (0:24)
  22. Pricks (0:07)
  23. Devil (0:30)
  24. Is We (3:08)
  25. Is We (0:52)
  26. Dan Dan Dan (0:28)
  27. Dan Dan Dan (0:15)
  28. Dan Dan Dan (0:15)
  29. Dan Dan Dan (0:16)
  30. Le Shark (0:05)
  31. Le Shark (0:05)
  32. Le Shark (0:06)
  33. Le Shark (0:06)
  34. Le Shark (0:09)
  35. Le Shark (0:18)
  36. Le Shark (0:16)
  37. 1D Shapethrower (2:13)
  38. Shoegazer (4:15)
  39. Vermin (0:14)
  40. Vermin (0:48)
  41. Vermin (0:14)
  42. Hemiplegia 1 (1:05)
  43. Mcdcc (1:02)
  44. Gortex (0:24)
  45. Alf Sprey (0:14)
  46. Interchangeable World (0:10)
  47. Interchangeable World (0:33)
  48. Interchangeable World (1:18)
  49. Cranusberg (0:49)
  50. Cranusberg (4:15)
  51. Cranusberg (2:56)
  52. Raindance (0:38)
  53. Horse (0:05)
  54. New Contact Lense (1:30)
  55. Of Our Time (1:48)
  56. Crepe (0:05)
  57. Crepe (0:28)
  58. Crepe (0:05)
  59. Crepe (0:23)
  60. Wab Wat (0:50)
  61. 'MC (0:14)
  62. Peel (1:03)
  63. I G E (0:09)
  64. Knutsford Services (0:58)
  65. Fully (2:25)
  66. Fully (1:46)
  67. Squashed To Pureness (0:09)
  68. Squashed To Pureness (0:16)
  69. Squashed To Pureness (0:11)
  70. Squashed To Pureness (0:49)
  71. Yo! DMX Crew (2:48)
  72. Go On (1:37)
  73. Stroyer 2 (0:21)
  74. Untitled (1:06)
  75. Untitled (0:10)
  76. Shep (1:08)
  77. Langue (0:09)
  78. Poke (0:10)
  79. Poke (0:16)
  80. Poke (0:31)
  81. Poke (0:14)
  82. Hemiplegia 2 (0:17)
  83. Territory Of Usage (0:18)
  84. Territory Of Usage (0:37)
  85. Tomo (0:16)
  86. Tomo (0:17)
  87. R M I Corporate ID 2 (0:08)
  88. PT/AE (0:07)

Credits

  • Gescom - primary artist
  • Rob Brown - musician [uncredited]
  • Russell Haswell - musician [uncredited]
  • Sean Booth - musician [uncredited]
  • Jan Maes - text by
  • Simon Harris - text by

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