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Warszawa​/​Shafty 7"

by Metamono

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Warszawa 04:25
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Shafty 04:08

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“…this really is a cut above. 9/10” - Kris Needs - Data Transmission: May 2012

When South London electronic cabal METAMONO play live, they employ a unique, Tardis-like console of cannibalized analogue synthesisers, ring modulators, rhythm boxes and a large, PYE valve radio set. On its dial, the capitals of Europe - London, Berlin, Paris…

…and Warsaw. This is where METAMONO have tuned into for their latest transmission from the electro-etheric beyond, for a cover of Warszawa, Bowie’s tragic requiem from 1977’s Low (a Manchester band used it as their name, of course, before relaunching as Joy Division). David has, of course, recently broken a decade’s recording silence; could even he have imagined a recreation like this? Within, the original’s sombre majesty is replaced by something more feverish and nervy, accelerating into a kind of Ballardian Proto-House that marries reason and nightmare, and forces us to reevaluate our shared sonic memories – did Warszawa, really, always sound like this? Over on side AA, there are more strange recollections of the pre-digital future, and startling predictions of an erased past. Glimpsed from across mud flats with concrete cooling towers on the horizon, Shafty surfs on sine waves into the jacking zone with the utmost, hypnotic inscrutability.

This limited-run 7” single is the third release on METAMONO’s label INSTRUMENTARIUM, and follows the admirably unique Parcel Post EP and the Bambino Lives Cassette. It represents another chapter in a story of innovating backwards. A disciplined trio, METAMONO do things the hard way, welcoming accident, embracing restriction and letting circuit boards fall where they may. Not for them the spirit-sapping ease of digital production, and its disastrous effect on creativity (see their online manifesto: www.metamono.co.uk - of NO OVERDUBS/ALL ANALOGUE/NO SAMPLING for more). If you understand what this means, come to their March 23 launch do at Bambino in Crystal Palace, where you can feast your unbelieving eyes on those synths and that old radio set, and maybe even give it a twiddle, while your other hand toys with a Theremin. There’s an album scheduled for September as well.

In age of foolish credulity, and too-easily satisfied desires, we are accustomed to consuming the dubious horsemeat lasagna of ersatz art. METAMONO is an imaginative alternative. METAMONO is a sound you can trust.

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released March 25, 2013

Warzsawa (Bowie/Eno)
Shafty (Conboy/Hill/Podmore)
Produced by Metamono in strict adherence to the manifesto www.metamono.co.uk
Vinyl version in handmade sleeve available here:
www.metamono.co.uk/shop_front3.html
see the unique sleeves being made:
youtu.be/KjzPxGWA7KE

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Metamono London, UK

METAMONO was formed in 2010 by 2 musicians and a fine artist on the search for new horizons. The idea: to create analogue electronic music in strict adherence to a manifesto - a set of rules which on one hand would restrict their options but on the other would liberate our creativity and force them to engage in new methods. The manifesto was agreed upon. ... more

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