Machinefabriek/Aaron Martin - Cello Recycling

Machinefabriek. Man. This guy doesn't know how to stop being overproductive and high quality at the same time. All these lovely 3" cd-r's are worth every single penny and this little ditty is no exception. If you ever wondered what grey autumns in Holland feel like, just listen to Machinefabriek. Drones with a lot of thought and personality, aural fingerprints, stuff that makes time float.

Cello Recycling contains 3 pieces. All recordings made by cellist Aaron Martin, the first track being remixed by Machinefabriek. Eleven minutes of ghostly cello sounds, building up slowly and with huge respect for doomed silence. Like listening to an earthquake rumbling 200 hundred miles away with your ear to the soil. Towards the middle, the floaty flat drone gets punctured by exilirating low end fuzzquakes before drifting into the dense fog of haunted cello sounds again. There's always great dynamics going on in Machinefabriek's music so once you think you've had the best part there's always new developments around the corner. It really feels like a morning stroll through a foggy unknown.

Tracks 2 to 4 are short examples of Aaron Martin's original works. This way you get a slight idea about Machinefabriek's jolted mind. It's these tracks that make you realise how immaculate this dude works his craft and really, just a peek inside a gloomy mindstate. One with a love for melancholy and maybe even the haunted pasts of whatever interesting people he's met over the years.

I know all this praise might seem suspect coming from me as I just released a Machinefabriek chapter on my own label but if there's ever gonna be a bad Machinefabriek, I'd be seriously thrilled to slag it off. No joke. Up until now, pfft, you just can't knock dude's hustle.

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