de:termination
by Dotson
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CostCo Plaza
01:58
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Deleuze-Guattari Acid
03:59
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Wilhelm or Steve?
04:20
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Stockhausen
04:38
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Underpass
04:35
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Metrolink
01:37
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Typing Pool
02:56
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Union Pacific
05:20
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Traynor
05:16
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Huxley
04:27
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about
This is dance music whose goals don’t necessarily involve dancing. There’s a huge variety of electronic instrumentation and what I assume are electronic recreations of acoustic instruments. This is pure sound hoarding. As a listener, it’s never overwhelming, as records with this trait often tend to be. He’s managed to make a wide variety of sounds into a cohesive whole.
"Wilhelm or Steve?" is my favorite song. It starts with minimal drum machines, minimal keyboards, a bassline played by two different keyboards, and then what sounds like hand drums come in. If he can make hand drums sound cool, he can do anything. There’s briefly a '90s techno-sounding keyboard line and it sounds like the beat’s about to drop, but instead a harp is added. The song peaks once more before disintegrating into itself. It reminds me of the better Fridge records.
I’m very curious about Dotson’s relationship with his music. He creates beautiful, well-crafted phrases, while wielding disintegration and destruction with the steady hand of a waterboarder as dynamic tools. Phrases are chopped up and distorted; he then either allows them to return or they morph into some messed up version of themselves. Does he take delight in abusing his songs? Or does he do it because he has no choice in the matter?
Unfortunately for me, the last year hasn't left much room for discovering new music. This includes when Dotson first showed up on my radar when Already Dead released 'Indifference' in January 2017. The cover was an altered portrait of what I think is Paul Ryan. Looking further back, most of his records have very dark imagery associated with them. 'De:termination' is quite the departure from this mold with an almost whimsical hand-drawn cover on a gridded yellow background. It's such a departure that I can't help but wonder what kind of evolutionary step this record shows. I very much look forward to looking through the back catalog to find out."
- Chris Cowdrey, Already Dead Tapes, 2018
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Already Dead Tapes and Records Atlanta, Georgia
A record label releasing cassettes, vinyl and fine art in small editions.
Est. 2009
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Apr 2021 -
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Jan 2020
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