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Skelm is a Johannesburg based paranoiac with an unhealthy interest in electronically mangled sound. There are many reasons for this paranoia, but most have been systemically erased through a sustained scorched-earth attack on Skelm’s memory facilities. Inevitably, some formative influences, typically those associated with childhood trauma and those awful attacks on the public transport system, escaped unscathed. Plagued by these lingering fragments of mal-consciousness, and determined to erase those neurological circuits which (mis)lead the brain into constructing a simulacrum of a coherent world, when what in fact exists are random and meaningless events, objects and interactions, Skelm stumbled on the idea of using sound to induce a gap in consciousness. Fortuitously, there is a neurological precedent for this endeavour. A scotoma (darkness/ shadow) is a disconnection or hiatus in perception, or a gap in consciousness. Previously considered to be an affliction, bleeding edge theory now sees scotoma as the logical next step in biogenetic engineering- the potential to eradicate those parts of the subconscious which cause undesirable traits or behaviour. If this experiment in sound-induced scotoma works, you will have no recollection of reading this page, listening to this music, or ever having used Reaktor. However, you will live the rest of your life with a vague sense of discombobulation and an uncontrollable desire to commit frottage with strangers on buses.
Sprawl (5 mb) - The track was made from a fairly lengthy jam with newscool by lazyfish, which was edited to form the basis of a couple more jams with Weedwacker (I think it was still called Weedbacker at the time) by Siegmar Kreie. Elements were added from rez by Martin Brinkmann, and a sample sequencer was also used (forget which one, sorry). Editing was done in Sonar, and effects added from the wonderful Space Delay by PankD@haupstadt.net, Ensoniq DP/4 outboard, and onboard FX from Yamaha 01v, which was also used for mixing.