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Desiderii Marginis - Deadbeat
Late Night Reviews with mr. Insomnia!! Hey-hey-hey! I picked an album which has been lying around for some time (on my hard drive, that is), an album I never listened to normally yet but which interests me. Ambient music. What’s the point of it? Music journalists at this stage usually reach for that Brian Eno quote (“Ambient Music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting.”). I’m not a music journalist – thank God! however.. they do make money. Nah. Details. Whatever. Desiderii Marginis’ Deadbeat fulfils each single point of that definition. Ignorable – check. You can pay attention if you want. But why should you? You are doing something else, you don’t want to concentrate on the music playing. Maybe you are working. Reading. Waiting in an airport. Using an elevator.
Playing Call of Ctulhu, Vampire: the Masquarade or any other horror-themed RPG. Deadbeat creates a certain dark, industrial atmosphere, that’s for sure. But.. damn it, every single sound, every effect is shouting blatantly at you: THIS! IS! SCARY! THIS! IS! DARK! AND! INDUSTRIAL! Clichés. Chiming, haunting bells in the distance, humming generators, all that jazz (sic!).
[my reviews are getting shorter but hoard more and more tags. They are shouting blatantly!!]
It’s perfect, just perfect for a Lovecraftian gaming session. It’s well-made. Stylish. But it’s not music, damn it. Yessss, I’ve said it. I hate that phrase, hate it, hate it.. but what to do. Music is something you try to get into while it tries to get into you as well. Sorta. No. Wait. It’s 3am. Evolution had no effect on me-ah. These reviews are slowly drifting towards the blackholeish-void of Dadaist keyboard-humping. VOID! Desiderii Marginis wants you to believe that the void is near. Right under your fuckin nose. Face the noise. YES! I! AM! EVEN! IMPLENTING! METALLIC! KLINGING! IN! MY! TRACKS! AND! GREGORIAN! CHANTING!
The track ‘Mantrap’ organizes the noises into some nice beats. I kinda enjoy that. A total Dead Cities-era FSOL rip-off, but whatever. Damn, it’s almost the same. Haha, never noticed that earlier. Go cybergoths, the cyberspace is yours. I need something more material. They say Desiderii Marginis’ 2005 release That Which is Tragic and Timeless is different. Let’s see.
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