Have two out of the batch on the way - looking forward to it, and a little pissy that I slept on some of the older OFR tapes. This morning, while stressing about re-recording vocals as always, and assembling some tapes for upcoming releases, I revisited the Arv & Miljo/Krube split CS from Fragment Factory. Felt like sort of an asshole for my dismissive attitude toward the A&M track on first listen, so I gave it another chance to much better results - really nice subtle tape-degraded electronics alongside field recordings and nicely warped and layered piano tape loops/backing tracks, whichever they are. At some parts, they overlap to become chords from the notes, which is a nice technique; I may be one of those musique concrete fags to some extent taste-wise, but I don't mind admitting I'm a sucker for piano tones fucked with on magnetic tape. I could easily imagine a piece like that set to grainy photo-montages of nostalgic/idyllic childhood memories, naturist or nudist photography, stuff like that. Very arty, but who gives a fuck? Krube track still didn't do much for me - descending-scale bleep-bloop thin electronic submelody against repetitive water sound. When I listen to stuff like that, I grasp criticism of my own work better - some pieces seem done more for the creator than some imagined listener.
