No, again, I am not going to introduce Modelbau to you. It’s Frans, and you all know that. But you don’t know that on the final day of 2023, I got two new releases to review in my mailbox! What a way to end 2023. This last month, I could hardly work and was definitely unable to make music myself due to a broken humerus. So, to be able to write again and write about some nice music was a very nice way to close my activities this year.
The first one is a 10″ lathe in a limited edition of 21 on the Licht-Ung sublabel Spaltung. A 10″ means that if done properly, it will fit approximately 10 minutes per side, which is the case here. The plastic contains some very deep sounds with which Modelbau proves to be one of the masters of LoFi ambient. The tracks are untitled, so I’m just diving in here …
Damn, this is some minimal stuff here, wow. The layering on these tracks is meticulously done. There is movement in the lows, mids and highs, and even though there is a discrepancy in the origin of the movements, they all sync perfectly and form a gorgeous drone. And that is done on both sides. So I’ll just describe this review as “If you want to start 2024 with a bang, don’t think twice as this item will sell out within a few days after publication.
One thing that is super weird for me is this: ‘Normally,’ when I listen to drones of this kind, I lose track of time, and a ten-minute piece will come to me afterwards as “This was only ten minutes? Seemed way longer!” But the tracks on “Honours” made me check the time after a few minutes because I simply couldn’t believe they were still playing. So after four minutes, I checked, and the needle wasn’t even halfway there!!! I think it has something to do with the movement of sounds in the lower regions. The small pulsation there somehow messes with the perspective of time in a way that I never noticed before. Very, very well done this one.
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