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Chel White - Automaton [PLA 037 DEU 2019 FLAC]

Automaton is a collection of mostly unreleased recordings from 1985 to 1991, by innovative animator, film maker and visual artist, Chel White.

Having studied music theory in school, White taught himself drumming and played in a new wave band until, in 1981, together with Dan Gediman, formed the minimal wave duo Process Blue. Here their experimentation went way beyond playing drums.

His interest in industrial music, fostered in the late '70s and early '80s while working in factories as a way to put himself through college, informed his use of electronic instruments, tape manipulation, noise and unconventional percussion.

By 1985, as a now solo artist buoyed by newly affordable audio sampling technology, White tapped into his earlier teenage fascination with the art and films of both the Surrealist and Dada movements - in particular their disparate and fragmented imagery and sound - as a means to create striking new sonic palettes - think early Tackhead and you will be in the right sort of place.

01  Science & Industry
02  Oooh Ahhh
03  Automata
04  Dream #360
05  Dream Of Tunnels
06  Photocopy Cha Cha
07  Liquid Shadows
08  End Of Time
09  Careening Towards The Sun
10  Pensive
11  Forest Song