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SHUTTLE 358 - Frame (Re-Issue)
12K
CD // £9.99
CLICKS / GLITCH
Released: Feb 2007
Catalogue Number: 12K2005

SHUTTLE 358 - Frame (Re-Issue), 12K

Back in stock! This has happened to me a few times now and it doesn't get any easier; reviewing a record that's among my favourites of all time. Shuttle 358's 'Frame' originally seeped through the woodwork back in 2000 and it changed my life, it was one of those albums that seemed to forge a new musical vocabulary and effortlessly illustrated how minimal electronic music could be rich and soulful despite all the clinical associations. I had never heard anything quite like it, and to be honest I've never heard anything quite so fully formed in its simplicity since. Dan Abrams, moonlighting from his day-job as a respected 3d animator, sculpts sound in a way that so many find impossible to do; he uses the computer as an instrument and synthesizes tones which amaze in their simultaneous simplicity and complexity. The album begins with the title track 'Frame' and within seconds you are introduced to Abrams' perfectly realized sound as the subtlest of clicks erupt organically over deep, shifting pads and slowly paced tones. This music grows as you listen and while it is purely electronic from beginning to end, the way Abrams has composed it is oozes humanity and warmth. These drifting moments are like small love-songs to dying circuit-boards or poems written for a synthetic field of daffodils, at the same time they are science fiction and melancholic romance. By the time you reach the pure unadulterated pulsating beauty of 'Calty' and the album begins its closing act, it leaves you in no doubt that you are hearing a perfect moment in the evolution of 21st century music. Dan Abrams has written more Shuttle 358 albums since this one, notably reaching similar successes with the incredible 'Chessa', but for me 'Frame' is where it all became clear, when electronic music shook off its pretensions and banality and settled into pure musical perfection. Anyone who thinks that electronically produced music is dry and lacking humanity just needs to play 'Frame' from start to finish, there's simply not a chance you won't be moved. Utterly sublime.

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