Plat du jour

by Matthew Herbert

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  • Type: Album
  • Released: 8 August 2005
  • Label: Accidental
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 59:48
  • Community rating: 3.41/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Conceptually focusing on the modern food industry and agricultural politics, the British electronic producer constructs an album entirely from sounds associated with eating and food production. The playful, rhythmically intricate IDM tracks utilize heavily processed samples of biting apples, factory farm machinery, and running water, transforming mundane noises into highly melodic electronic compositions.

Genres

Descriptors: melodic, sampling, experimental, electronic, conceptual, political, satirical

Tracklist

  1. The Truncated Life Of A Modern Industialised Chicken (7:41)
  2. These Branded Waters (5:28)
  3. Pigs In Shit (0:19)
  4. An Empire Of Coffee (7:03)
  5. Celebrity (4:05)
  6. Sugar (5:50)
  7. An Apple A Day (1:32)
  8. White Bread, Brown Bread (4:08)
  9. Fatter, Slimmer, Slower, Faster (3:58)
  10. The Final Meal Of Stacey Lawton (5:33)
  11. The Nine Seeds Of Navdanya (4:15)
  12. Waste Land (6:03)
  13. Nigella, George, Tony And Me (3:47)

Credits

  • Leo Taylor - percussion [live]
  • Dave O'Higgins - performer
  • Nick Ramm - performer
  • Peter Wraight - performer
  • Phil Parnell - performer

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