Chinese (Un)Popular Song

限量100张.
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In case you didn't know, we all got hugely excited a few weeks back when Machinefabriek (aka Rutger Zuijdervelt) dedicated a gorgeously packaged 3" cdr to Manchester. This week we are equally dizzied by his latest offering, a credit card shaped cdr this time dedicated to Chinese pop music. The first track is a genuine long lost Chinese pop song, similar to something you might find on one of the aptly-names Sublime Frequencies compilations; a song bubbling with mystery, a slightly insane sing-along Chinese chorus and a lifetime's supply of crackle. The second piece is from Zuijdervelt himself, who takes elements of the pop song and distills them, skimming off the essence of the track and coming out with something entirely removed from the original. Drones and post rock atmospherics are the order of the day here, and I must say this is one of my favourite tracks from Machinefabriek yet - a mighty fine taster of the upcoming full-length on Lampse. The sub-aquatic tones are laced with crackle and crumbling melodies, much like William Basinski's seminal Disintegration Loops pieces, yet with a little more humour given the source material. As usual, this is stupidly limited (only 100 copies!) and once it's gone - it's really gone!

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