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Sound For Spaces
(Sub Rosa/Fusion III)



20th Century

Ambient

Drum And Bass

Electronic / Experimental / Industrial

Industrial Rhythm

Techno

Trip Hop, Breaks, Dub, World-Fusion

(Very) Alternative

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    On Sound For Spaces, Robin Rimbaud collects the electronic and experimental pieces he has done for art installations and radio broadcasts. Since his Scanner concept successfully entered the public discourse, he has been invited to travel the world to lecture and take part in art events like the tenth Documenta exposition in Kassel Germany in 1997. Like much of this disc "Documenta X" is primarily a building electronic music piece with comparisons to the Anti Group or the under-appreciated Chris Carter, and doesn't use as much of Scanner's trademark radio telephone conversation samples. "Rivers & Bridges" is an equally moody track, made for the Ars Electronica Festival in 1996 and broadcast by 24 international radio stations. Interestingly enough, the voice Scanner uses in "Rivers & Bridges" is his own, as he reports on the curious history of the man who designed the Brooklyn Bridge. Several of these tracks are collaborations with other, lesser known artists, but 1996's "Incarceration" features Pressure Of Speech's Mickey Mann (who is Orbital's sound man). Sound For Spaces also includes two pre-Scanner tracks from the '80s, including the 15-minute "A Piece Of Monologue," written and spoken by brilliant Irish playwright Samuel Beckett.