Miles Davis – Dark Magus [USED 2LP] DIY / Lo-Fi / Pop it's hard to imagine anyone

it's hard to imagine anyone reading this to fall short of knowing how immense his influence was

After a series of abrupt tempo changes and fragmented unison passages that crossbreed the rhythmic intensity of the Balinese Kecak with the joyride of an Ornette Coleman head

burning rubber on the tar as it drives a giddily simple riff down the highway

This manifests in his work through an exploration of the interface between incidental noise (field recordings and/or 'live' microphones hung outside the locations being performed in) and the physical response to these sounds via the 'gestural' use of electronic and acoustic instruments

Dragging A Dead Deer by Grouper

Miles Davis – Dark Magus [USED 2LP] DIY / Lo-Fi / Pop it's hard to imagine anyoneinfamous acid fried double live from '74, a full burnout of a session. piles of rhythm, scabrous guitar, broken drum machines, that fkn organ screech. melted set, best ever. CBS Sony, 1981