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Released: Jul 2006
Catalogue Number: HARMFUL 003CDR
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Formication are a UK based duo with a penchant for droney soundscapes. They’ve amassed quite a few releases now and have been championed by the Wire, so I think it’s high time the rest of the world got on board – this particular release sees them pillaging their back catalogue, scrounging for scraps and rebuilding old tracks into gigantic pseudo-ambient masterworks. Bearing a strong resemblance to their heroes Coil, the first track ‘Rise of the Native’ begins with an analogue drum machine cycle and squelching industrial synthesizers bubbling atop, before long the ten minute piece has grown in scope to include distant vocals and dischordant stabs creating a veritable drugs haze of faded musical excess. This sets the scene for the rest of the album, which excels in pursuit of deep basses and rhythmic pounding (which I can only guess echoes the tempo of my heartbeat or something equally spiritually resounding). Apparently the duo recommend that you should play this disc on random, so the order in which the tracks appear are unimportant, I can see this working as once you set off listening to ‘Redux’ the likelihood is you’ll be eager to travel into another universe anyway, preferably one without time or order. Dark, deep and ultimately satisfying, Formication take the best of industrial experimentation and re-forge it just for us...
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