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Ascent

Ascent

Ascent

"Ascent" is the third full-length album by longtime Californian experimental music stalwarts Thomas Dimuzio and Joseph Hammer. While their previous double LP focused on revisiting live recordings made throughout the west coast during the mid-to-late 2000's, "Ascent" effectively serves as Dimmer's first real studio effort in over five years since "The Shining Path" in 2007. In those five years, Dimmer's sound has evolved to something transcendent and grand in scope as in "Ascent" as it was conceptualized to be restricted to vintage analogue synthesizers and tape loops applying modern methods and aesthetics of electronic music composition. Edition of 300 copies printed with gold-foil graph tessellations on white matte jackets. "Not surprisingly from a duo whose name fuses the surnames of its members, it's impossible to tell who's doing what on this majestic hour-long span of music. It's what Thomas Dimuzio calls the Dimmer modus operandi: his live sampling rig and Joseph Hammer's vintage tape loop system recursively feed each other, both digging deep into a seedbed of sustained tones sourced from old keyboards..." —The Wire

  • isounderscore
2012
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"Ascent" is the third full-length album by longtime Californian experimental music stalwarts Thomas Dimuzio and Joseph Hammer. While their previous double LP focused on revisiting live recordings made throughout the west coast during the mid-to-late 2000's, "Ascent" effectively serves as Dimmer's first real studio effort in over five years since "The Shining Path" in 2007. In those five years, Dimmer's sound has evolved to something transcendent and grand in scope as in "Ascent" as it was conceptualized to be restricted to vintage analogue synthesizers and tape loops applying modern methods and aesthetics of electronic music composition. Edition of 300 copies printed with gold-foil graph tessellations on white matte jackets. "Not surprisingly from a duo whose name fuses the surnames of its members, it's impossible to tell who's doing what on this majestic hour-long span of music. It's what Thomas Dimuzio calls the Dimmer modus operandi: his live sampling rig and Joseph Hammer's vintage tape loop system recursively feed each other, both digging deep into a seedbed of sustained tones sourced from old keyboards..." —The Wire

Liner Notes

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