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33.333 "grab, blip, noise"


I’m assuming this act took their name from the Sandberg play, and if so – good on them, it’s a cracking title. 33.333’s mini CDR on new UK label ‘Skumpy’ begins with a promising track comprised of high frequency tones that waver only minimally from a singular source. The digital sound is piercing and highly synthetic bringing to mind Alva Noto with a pinch of the intensity of Prurient. The electric locusts plague your psyche, boring deep into your skull before disintegrating with a directional blast of analogue filth. The short pop-song length of the tracks works beautifully fulfilling and realising itself within the ephemeral. A stuttered sequence repeats like a jammed floppy disk drive trying idiotically to correct itself. There is sweetness to some of the background noises, but the main source of noise remains almost dormant. The mono, directional playback seems to suggest an installation experience, a kind of glitch musique concrete. The third track traverses high frequency tones again, this time twisting and turning like an augmented dial-up tone played through aluminium foil. The final distilling of fractured digital and electronic sound bounces with the noise of a thousand far-off typewriters. 33.333 makes little impact amongst the monolithic artists of the noise and electronic avant-garde, but for those deeply interested in everything this genre has to offer, this just might make a healthy little addition to your collection. 5/10 -- Peter Taylor (17 December, 2008)

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