Artificial Memory Trace - Vol. 5: Th Ality Absfract (1996)

This is one of the albums that bubbles up on RYM, I don't know how, and gets passed around, and, though seemingly enjoyed by all, fades away. This post is designed to help avoid that fate. A couple things stand out - the obscurity of the group, and the date this was produced. When I first listened to this, I checked the accuracy of the release date, as this is something that could come out today and nobody would think a thing of it being dated or what not.

I have this marked as drone, and there are those elements quite often, but this is one of those affairs that also has surface recordings that could either be field recording, or microtonal, or depending on the source, musique concrete. It is not noise, but noise as a genre generally encompasses these sort of things. Just to give you an idea of what is on here, not to get caught up in debates about genre. The most important thing to know about this is that it is of high quality, and, due to its chronological placement, worth further investigation.