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Crank
Wanton Phenomena
TOP 10 ELECTRONIC ALBUMS 1999
TOP 50 ALL GENRES 1999
review by DAVE HOWELL
~The Wire (UK) May 1999
"Until recently nu electronica more or less turned on a UK/European axix. But 1999 has already been marked by an explosion of American productions, discharging shrapnel loaded with new shapes and possibilities. With Wanton Phenomena, Cranks Danny Zelonky steps out of his Low Res persona to deliver a staggering album of cavernous, ever shifting electronics.
Cleverly conceived and engineered, the album forges a crumbling, deterritiorialised headspace, whose prehistory (in terms of effect) lies in the brilliant barrages of Mark Stewarts first albums, Royal Truxs Twin Infinitives, Disco Inferno circa DI Go Pop, or even Movers Final Sickness (which similarly suggests an automated, battlezone apocalypse).
Made up of dark atmospherics, skittering, glitchy rhythms, some seriously foggy, freaked out loops and FX, its tracks map a treacherous minefield of asymmetrical occurrences, earthshifts and random explosions (hence the titless euphemism, wanton phenomena) that constantly derail the listeners expectations. Each fresh hearing yields new details. Jerk rocks the body through a zone of crunchy electro beats before dissolving in a field of cloud hiss. On Infantile Narcosis and Discompose, reverb-heavy melodies drift hazily through the textrual melee. 10+ is a gorgeously low key voidscape, while the Merzbow-like Vzhiu Vzhiu is filled with buckling chunks of digital dirt, gritblasts and all manner of movement.
Following breakthroughs by the likes of DJ Disk, Matmos, Terre Thaemlitz and Miamis Schematic label, Cranks Wanton Phenomena is another stunning advance for US electronica."
DAVE HOWELL
~The Wire (UK) May 1999
TEXTURA.ORG REVIEW of 15 Exitos Grandes de Electro "...The hefty 15 Exitos Grandes de Electro is uniformly strong, with Crank material like “Jerk” elevating things to an even more unhinged plateau than the others....If Joe Zawinul and Bootsy Collins were abducted by aliens, transported to Saturn, and commanded to instruct the planet's inhabitants in the fine art of jazz-funk, the results might sound much like the 23rd-century Weather Report-meets-James Brown space jazz that appears throughout the (release).”
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