A "lost album" of sorts, made last year and only just rediscovered in a forgotten nook of the artist's computer. Musical landscapers Distance continue to evolve slowly and subtly. A sublimely relaxing travelogue, with elements of world music and a newfound sonic crispness - one can almost touch the grit in Distance's trademark spoken-word murk, which is even more tauntingly just out of comprehension's reach.
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"This selection, culled from three years (2004-06) worth of offcuts, sound experiments, lost songs and general oddities, was originally going to be made available as a limited edition of 50 C-40 cassettes but was shelved before ever being revealed due to problems with dubbing such a quantity of tapes without proper equipment. This is the reason the two completed tracks both last 19 minutes and 54 seconds as they were originally designed to fit onto two sides of a cassette.The inspiration for this project (both in the nature of the album itself and in the less-than-slick mixing - no Ableton Live here!) is clearly The Faust Tapes, although the precise ordering of the pieces was decided by assigning every section a number and then drawing cards at random from the major arcana of a tarot deck." - Thee Crumb
"7-Track EP following on from the CD When I Was King Of The Wilderness with three tracks [...] that didn't make the cut for that album along with four other tracks for your listening pleasure." - Digital VomitDownload page
"5 tracks - all over 7 minutes in length continue as with the other cd-r dubbel releases in using 'found' vocals (ahem !) and sonic clicks, beats, and industrial clangs. sometimes a melodious section is provided for a welcome respite, for example the opening of 'on a natural charge' and shows that the ghost of etheral ambient is never that far away, however rather than letting the blissmood last for 74 minutes (a la fax releases in 1994) the distortions and electronica distresses are soon brought back into focus. the track also features a scary effect ridden odb vocal while the industrial noises do their midi'd thing in the background. making for a totally fascinating 7.5 minutes." - ireallylovemusic
"'Mutiny In Stereo' is like some slow motion drug that works its way through your blood stream, gradually taking control of your system. It's like a warped blend of 50 Cent, Aaliyah and seven hundred robotic sample bots on full effect. Take a listen and see what you think, I reckon you will like this one. Cool." - Tesselate
"[Keith]'s 'Drugs' is the main source material for Ascoltare Vs. Keith (Dubbel MCDR001). But Ascoltare (aka Dave Henson of Gwei-Lo) employs a glitchy, kucky musical production style that is paired with Mr Keith's vocals in a way that makes for a nice trash compaction of anything that might seem melodically familiar. At any rate, the presence of text gives the proceedings more open flow than most glitch orientated noise. And the packaging is really pretty nice. The CD is packaged in a plastic case that's held inside a small zip-loc bag that has what one assumes is some benign substance masquerading as drugs proper. Its something of a long short that I'll ever be blasted enough to sample it, but maybe you're made of stronger stuff, pard." - The Wire (April 2004)
