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Mount Vernon Arts Lab "Gummy Twinkle"

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THE WIRE
       

Contrary to the established mockery of misconstrued future scenarios, the end of the millennium seems to have released a postmodern frenzy of remodelling often quaint golden age settings to fit the imminent future they once envisaged. So "Space 1999" actually got it right when it predicted interplanetary transport interiors would look like a 70's hair salon. And high collared silver suits, oversized digital display watches, the millennium dome even, all echo the forms and fashions of fictional future past. In keeping with this tendency is the emergence of an avant-electronica which uses vintage analogue tools to sculpt its soundscapes. In fact, the rehabilitation of antique electronic noises has already been well established by artists such as Stereolab, Add N To (X); but Mount Vernon Arts Lab indicates a shift towards a kind of millennial DIY folk. That these auteurs work with a variety of collaborators, shouldnt detract from the singularly of their visions.
       

The solo obsession of Glaswegian Drew Mulholland, Mount Vernon Arts Lab's "Gummy Twinkle" is more strictly focused on sound treatments as
opposed to structured rhythms. "William Green" maintains an ominous machine pulse around which dart electronic fluttering noises; the collaboration with
Project DARK, "Cabaret Volt Age", sets tiny explosions and bass drones against distorted white noise;and "Superpatch", with EAR's Sonic Boom, tapers
off into space rock ambience. Very now, very then.

Tom Ridge

The Wire, April 1999

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