HEGENBART, BORIS - FIRST / DEW (LP)

"Boris Hegenbart takes a dub-like approach to musique concrete. Rich contrasts drawn between synthetic and recorded sounds allow texture and space to flourish in place of melody. First / Dew branches away from the very beginnings of Hegenbart's TAU series. It takes his debut album, "Hikuioto" (a self-published CD released in 1996), and re-imagines it on vinyl." (label info) "'Musicforcicadas' (is) an extended collage of Japanese singing and insects, folded and endlessly looped into a hypnotic Steve Reich/Oval-inspired minimalist glitch mantra." (The Answer is in the Beat)