Paste - Noerg / Progress

[Guest Stormbringer]

Paste - Noerg / Progress

 

 

Artist: Paste

Title: Noerg / Progress

Label: Boshke Beats

Date: 2001

 

Track listing:

 

01. Noerg

02. Progress

 

Review:

 

This is the first release from a very promising new label called Boshke

Beats. Their website http://www.boshkebeats.com is frequently updated

and one of the best trance-/techno-sites out there, check it out! This

record was released almost a year ago but as the label Boshke Beats

lacked some real distribution I´ve had to wait until now to get it. It

was just impossible to find it in any ordinary recordshop, but it

shouldn´t be a problem to find their records anymore now when they got

distribution by Cosmophilia. Keller & Sonderegger have released a lot of

EP´s during the last year but this is one of my favourites. The dry and

minimal almost barren sound of Paste can sometimes be just too much, or

should I say too little? The sound of this EP follows in the same

footsteps as their other releases, but I don´t think that it´s that

extremely minimal as some of their other records have been. "Noerg" got

dark echoing noises, almost like a thunderstorm at long distance, mixed

with a ticking beat and cluttering percussion. As allways with

Paste-music the intensity increases towards the end. "Progress" is much

more energetic, if you can use that term at all when describing Pastes

music? It got a slow but pumping metallic beat combined with some crazy

noises and a voicesample with Arnold from "Terminator". This EP is one

of the coldest and darkest Paste made so far, atleast that´s my opinion,

but if you´ve liked their previous work you´ll probably like this too.

As I said above, this is one of their best EP´s! For more information

about Paste go to: http://www.pasteten.info

[Guest [Anonymous]]

minimal progressive boring rubbish, i'm afraid

[Guest shaolin shuffle]

Just ignore the above reivew by yet another weak minded whiner. I agree with

Stormbringer this is one of the best Paste EP to date. "NOERG" is such a

killer that its hard not to listen to it again and again! overall this is my

favourite Paste ep and I hope they would continue to make music in such

hypnotic manner =] 8/10

[Mergi]

Noerg is completly devoid of any melodies, instead we get an armada of effects and sounds that fades out and in. The beginning is filled with a continous rumbling, almost like some enormous spaceship is passing over your head way too close, along with cluttering effects that rebounds and fades out. Then it goes into it's regular 4 by 4 rhythm and at first this seems to be all that we'll get, but they do manage to make one sustain interest due to the everchanging build up of the track. Suddenly it's filled with a mosaic of effects, not too much either so there's nothing to get lost in yet still much to listen to. Somewhere in the latter part it breaks of suddenly with a drawn out sound of a gun being fired (abundantly used earlier in the track as well), the track comes back with a real cool wobbly fluctuating effect. Also in this part they add much more effects used as percussion and this combination of sounds is, imo, really nice to just listen to.

 

Progress is a strange tweaked piece of music. The intro build up is quite long but it settles into a beat and bassline after a minute and a half. Once again there's not much going on, but it quickly breaks of mainly to add a long sequence of some sort of melodyloop. Very strange sounding indeed as it is not much of a melody but it certainly is another one of those things I can just sit and listen to again and again because it fits so perfectly into the already existent atmosphere.

 

Rating: 4/5