12/28/2023 0 Comments Mohn colors pro mix free mp3 download![]() ![]() The characteristic sound of this album is the chest-thumping bombast of “Schwarzer Schwan”: lit by portentous claps of percussion, cobwebs catch the light as the single note of an operatic tenor is warped, screwed, wandering the halls of song like a disinherited ghost. Most GAS tracks were built up out of screwed orchestral and operatic recordings, and Mohn has the same feel, but the 4/4 kick drum that rippled through those GAS albums has crumbled away - though the floor’s dropped out and the gargoyles have flown, the walls still hold. In its damaged grandeur, Mohn is thematically most akin to Voigt’s flawless GAS project. Still flawlessly designed, the duo’s samples on Mohn are built up into crumbling gothic edifices, shot through with cracks and shadows, echoing with a stately ambience that thuds like a giant helmet onto hypnagogia’s retroscape, with its nostalgia measured in the length of generations of obsolete recording technology, by eking out its sound and sonic iconography at level of the decline and fall of empires. But their latest collaboration, Mohn (German for poppy), exhibits little of Burger/Ink’s streamlined sound or the primary-colored aesthetic of classic Kompakt. ![]() Fifteen years ago, Wolfgang Voigt and Jörg Burger (individual credits too long to list, but most relevant to this review, Gas and Triola, respectively) collaborated as Burger/Ink on Las Vegas, and they have made a smattering of recordings together since then. The sonics of Mohn’s self-titled debut have a similar epochal gravity, all massive fallen objects, eroded edifices, and stone surfaces multiplied by echo. As in much English literature before the rise of the novel, it’s a thrillingly alien event, its narrative logic resounding of prophecies, sworn oaths, and alliances long, long ago smashed and put back together a thousand different ways. Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto, widely considered the first work of gothic fiction, begins with a massive helmet dropping out of the sky and crushing the hapless heir to the lord of the castle, wicked-witch-of-the-East style.
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