francisco lopez s/d

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i know almost nothing about him, but i happened across ian penmam's review of untitled 92 in an old copy of the wire yesterday, which inspired me to download it; and maybe it's cuaght me in the right mood, but it sounds fantastic. i know almost nothing about him, though, bar that he's made records from heavy metal and insect samples. so tell me more!

― toby (tsg20), Monday, 23 August 2004 19:35 (twenty-one years ago)

untitled 92 and the metal one (104?) are really good. the rest are ehhhhhh.

haha penman's review made me track this down when it first came out too.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 23 August 2004 19:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't remember 92. I have 104 (the metal one) and 89, which is a kind of slowly building, primitive industrial rumble, and Abby..., which is sort of cool. I also have one that's totally inaudible, but that's as much my tinnitus as the CD. I don't like that one as much.

I've always wanted to hear the one he released on trente oiseaux. Is it any good?

― pdf (Phil Freeman), Monday, 23 August 2004 20:01 (twenty-one years ago)

i like the rainforest series (Belle Confusion 969, Addy..., La Selva). all audible, atmospheric, and generally in line with what Richard Watson does, just on a more panoramic scale. Azoic Zone, deep-sea abyss impressions made with sounds contributed by the cassette underground, is also good. better than the Untitled disc on Staalplaat, which is live collaborations in a similar vein but sans any obvious conceptual framework.

of the 'inaudible' works, Untitled 74 (the Table of the Elements one) Warszawa Restaurant are at least somewhat rewarding, if you give them the time to play out. they tend to charge the air - i'm not sure how - making for very uneasy listening. Untitled 89 and the Mego LP (Untitled 92) are more effectively structured noise pieces than the 'Death Metal' CD (104, yes), which never really overcame its gimmick for me.

lost interest in López around the time that he launched the :absolute: labels. i find myself more impressed with what John Duncan's doing.

― echoinggrove (echoinggrove), Monday, 23 August 2004 20:09 (twenty-one years ago)

...d/ling untitled 92 feels somewhat problematic

― prima fassy (mwah), Monday, 23 August 2004 20:17 (twenty-one years ago)

well it's still in print and you can order it online, right?

― jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 23 August 2004 20:19 (twenty-one years ago)

mm i'm not chiding, its just like an interesting slant on the objet. really i'd be scared of the dude who didn't get to this via penman. i can think of few other records so dominated, maybe even created by its rvwer

― prima fassy (mwah), Monday, 23 August 2004 20:26 (twenty-one years ago)

well yeah that's kinda what i thought you meant

― jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 23 August 2004 20:27 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah i rather wish i'd bought it when it came out and i still listened to records; that was the first issue of the wire i bought and the review intrigued me, but i didn't have much money to spend on records and feared it would have been a waste of cash.

― toby (tsg20), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 05:42 (twenty-one years ago)

i found 1 copy of "untitled 92" to be almost useless. i ordered it 'cuz i liked mego's font. the record is just monotonous, empty grooves from what i can remember. i read somwhere that if you played multiple copies simultaneously they would create a mesh'd forest of static. i could imagine that. instead, i used it for freestyle percussion on a beat-up turntable. it produced good, basic sounds. i ruined the record but got some actual physical use from it.

― rssgnld's, Tuesday, 24 August 2004 06:48 (twenty-one years ago)

the one where he cuts up Meshuggah is pretty good.

― OCP (OCP), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 07:31 (twenty-one years ago)

can we have any john duncan recommendations plz!

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 12:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Tap Internal.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 12:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Phantom Broadcast, Incoming (with Christoph Heemann), Send, The Crackling (with Max Springer), home, unspeakable (with Bernhard Günter)

and i obv. meant Chris Watson.

― echoinggrove (echoinggrove), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 13:01 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

heard him play live last night, in a huge theatre, as part of my university electronic music festival. some of us got to lie down on the stage, with blindfolds. it was pretty incredible. i found the density intensely physically pleasurable - there was this sensation of total freedom, kind of like that time slowdown when you're about to have an accident, the powerless catharsis of inevitable violence

― jermaine (jnoble), Sunday, 4 September 2005 08:00 (twenty years ago)

my insides will be humming for a few days yet.

― jermaine (jnoble), Sunday, 4 September 2005 08:00 (twenty years ago)

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