Talking about conceptual in other topic, not sure if one should say aesthetic noise in this case!
Aube "Metal De Metal" CD, like always, so based on idea, based on material, that it barely seems to reflect any human emotion. Label promo sticker describes this as "dark", but I fail to see what exactly is dark in Aube? It would be mostly just cold. I don't think it covered any sound material in a way that it would be warm or energetic. Most often mechanical. Loops, electronic processing, most often very industrialized sound sources.
Not in way as one often associates industrial-music, where its all transgressions, dirt and bleakness. With Aube you got the -materials- and -parts-. Glass, metal, water, flurescent lights, electricity. Even the earliest water records are not like "field recordings". Nothing natural in them, but like water in form of pipes, buckets, in some kind of utility usage...? Instead of synth, he'd have just production part - VCO buzzing. And so on. He had female voice as source in some releases, but that wouldn't make it more "warm" or feel to have humane touch.
On this CD, noise made out of junk metal, would be misleading. I guess Manifold also mentioned "ambient". For most part, this is not really noise, nor ambient per se. How metal is used, is pretty much opposition how it is used in noise. It gets noisy at times, but has always clarity, quiet and small elements, musicality in form of rhythm of loops and composition of layers. Never smashing, never dirty. Sounds pretty much just like the cover looks like. Shining, neat, clean, well made, industrial production line quality. Nevertheless, Aube worked by hand, as craftman, tweaking live tracks on mixer, building and playing songs rather than "editing". All these things contribute to the releases.
In short: Good stuff!
