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This 2-CD set represents live recordings performed by trailblazing synthesist Thomas Dimuzio along with like-minded artists such as Nick Didkovsky, Fred Frith, Anna Homler, and others. To that end, the West Coast-based artist stretches electronics to the outer boundaries of comprehension. Dimuzio sometimes opts for a shock therapy mode of operations,... more

As its subtitle indicates, Slew is "a compilation of compilation tracks," packaging together most if not all of Thomas Dimuzio's contributions to compilations between 1990 and 2004. The tracks range from the largely available "Never Steven" (from the Cuneiform CD Transforms: The Nerve Events Project) and "Radiotraces" (from Tzadik's Tom Cora tribute... more

Seeland Records is pleased to present The Teen-Pop-Noise Virus, one of the most absurd albums of all-time by Poptastic. The music, like the band itself, was spawned from the warped minds of experimental producers Chris Fitzpatrick and Thomas Dimuzio. At the core of their debut release are twelve intricately mangled songs, but in the spaces between,... more

Unlike Michael Chocholak's OWL MAN DREAMS, this Generations Unlimited release contains a more diverse and inventive collection of compositions and abstractions. Cyclic fragmentary and spacious moods are created on synths and other (often unrecognisable) instruments to create an unreal and oft frightening atmosphere. Although starting out like 'Chrome... more

Four soundscape pieces recorded live, in front of an audience, apparently, with one guy playing the "Orpheus Interactive Animation System." The first, "Chipped Teeth," is slow and scary and gets more so as it goes on, with unintelligible, sampled voices added later. Low-end, grumbled darkness. More of the same on "Murmur," which closes the side. The... more

Thomas Dimuzio's Sone Songs (RZC-005) collects six live pieces from 1990, totalling nearly an hour of music. It's performed using digital samplers and processors, and tends towards the more ambient side of Realization's noise spectrum. It layers billowing clouds of quietly screeching noise against subdued fragments of voice and subtle rhythmic patterns... more

Fab solo American noisenik whomps it up live with his vats of electric junk. You need more records by Dimuzio so why not acquire this one - 12 years old and a rare vintage too. Amazingly, for something with such a masterly and convincing delivery, this is Dimuzio's first ever solo concert. Gen Ken Montgomery recorded it at his Generator sound gallery... more

This double CD is not necessarily more impressive than Dimuzio's earlier and stellar Headlock (which was reissued in 1997), but in spite of its increased length, it is probably the more focused and coherent work of the two. Headlock had a bit of a kid-in-a-candy-store quality to it ("so many sonic possibilities, so little time"), while Sonicism is quite... more

Thomas is not so much a unique dabbler in sound construction, though he is one of the most interesting working in this field at the moment, in the wake of Jim O'Rouke, Zoviet France, Hafler Trio, et al. LOUDEN is actually an anthology of older recordings from 1987 and 1989 (including four tracks from an old Generations Unlimited release) and it largely... more

Originally released in 1989 on David Prescott's very small U.S. independent Generations Unlimited label, this CD is much more than the standard backward look at the early, formative work of a mature artist. Indeed, this is already a mature work, even though it came early in Dimuzio's professional career. The ten pieces in the program more or less run... more

To quote the liner notes, "Markoff Process features a series of concerts performed and recorded by Thomas Dimuzio during 1990 and 1991. All titles were improvised using an interactive system of digital samplers and processors with realtime control—no sequencers or backing tapes were employed."

The results of this interactive improvisation are ten... more

According to the back of the album and the very detailed booklet that comes with it, the album is actually Mark Hostler (who wrote and performed all the songs) with hefty contributions by Negativland and Bay Area soundscapist Thomas Dimuzio, and all I can say is that this is definitely one of my favorite albums of the year. It's entirely songbased, and... more

It’s refreshing to hear an album of sonic abstraction that falls into neither of the following categories: minimalist drone, harsh noise, or crossover into other electronic realms. Not that there is anything wrong with those at all, I enjoy many works that fall into those aforementioned categories. But works like this collaboration between the Illusion... more

Dan Burke is the leader of Illusion of Safety, the 'group' that succeeded perfectly the marriage between industrial and electroacoustic musics. Thomas Dimuzio has created since his first releases an unusual music made of electronics and electroacoustics with many energies. Bot have already released many records separately. Hz is made of extracts of live... more

San Fran's vintage experimental musician Thomas Dimuzio (read review of his "Mono::Poly" double CD on Asphodel records elsewhere on these pages) and NYC's Arcane Device member and audio/video artist David Lee Myers, have engaged into the coast-to-coast mail collaboration, which eventually lead to "Uncertain Symmetry", after the two played together at... more

Three years after Quake, Chris Cutler and Thomas Dimuzio came back with a second serving of confusing electrified percussion and sampling. If anything, this album goes even further in blurring distinctions between the two protagonists' contributions, between acoustic and electronic, between real-time performance and post-production. Dust consists of two... more

Chris Cutler was the drummer in the classic art rock Henry Cow, and he has released a number of improv duets with various partners over the last decade, including Cow guitarist Fred Frith and electric harpist Zeena Parkins. Thomas Dimuzio is an electro-acoustic composer, whose noisy drone work Headlock has been recently reissued by ReR. All of Cutler's... more

Every few months I receive a CD that I am truly excited about getting sent in for review. Usually it's from a band or performer that I've been following for many years.

Chris Cutler have been very prolific over the years, and I probably have close to everything that he's worked on — from the early Henry Cow to the recent experimental improv stuff... more

Ever wonder what some of the classic progressive bands would sound like today had they maintained their edge and not grown lazy and comfortable and become caricatures of themselves ? Enter the 5UU's. Take the experimental rock spirit, add some influences in varying combinations from Henry Cow, Frank Zappa, Yes, The Beatles and Gentle Giant, mix it all... more

Their new god which is a dry mark colored pencil ("Marky") fondles live wires of houses resouled for the bankrupt 'adopt-a-child' program and in the consciousness ensuing directs them to it's carbon headed nipple. The S.0.S. signals are picked up by SyncIaviiti brand sperm in different world labs and break out of the glass slide prisons they lay in to... more

It is both the end of the decade and the end of the century, so record companies are trying to honor this century with as many collections as they can. I'm not quite sure how this music directly relates to music and/or media in the 20th century but it is a fine collection of some of the most innovative current electronic music artists. This is a two-cd... more

LINKS OUTTA HERE contains sound works created in honor of Abigail Lavine by an eclectic array of acclaimed sound artists and musicians: amk, blackhumour, chop shop, Thomas Dimuzio, Peter Duimelinks, Egnekn, Leif Elggren, Emil Beaulieau, Russ Forster, The Haters, C. M. Hausswolf, John Hudak, Francisco Lopez, Daniel Menche, Gordon Monahan, Malcolm Riviera... more