{"product_id":"seekersinternational-the-guncontrolla-lp","title":"Seekersinternational – The Guncontrolla [LP]","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTHIS IS THE GUN TUNE TO END ALL GUN TUNE!\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eInter-Outer-National Dub Explorers, SEEKERSINTERNATIONAL, perform an outright dub dismantlement operation on their return-home project for ICS Library Records after a globe-trotting series of releases pushing soundsystem obliquities!\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eArmed with a battery-operated 1987 Tascam Porta Two 4-track recorder and a Shure SM57 cardioid microphone, the SKRS crew capture field recordings of firearms being dismantled and re-assembled during a workshop on firearm care and handling conducted at a local military surplus shop.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThese field recordings make up the primary building blocks used to build and construct the entire GUNCONTROLLA album.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe recorded sounds of cold steel, hard plastic and wood, colliding and grating against one another, undergo an elemental transfiguration via signal chain as they are pushed through and coaxed out of the mythical SKRS echo chamber.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDissected, refracted, multiplied and compounded indefinitely, the bruk-up gun sounds slowly swell from a few sparse, nervous tricklings of magnified mineral droplets to a dense, ringing, cacophonic cluster chord of churning\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003emetallurgy.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe results are fascinating; conjuring some imaginative intersection somewhere between Lee Perry's Black Ark, Bernard Parmegiani at the GRM and Mark \u0026amp; Moritz at the Rhythm \u0026amp; Sound controls; a temporal warp of dreamlike dread tension, where, crucially, not a single shot is fired.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eUsing dub’s transfigurative techniques to turn the workshop recordings into an absorbingly abstract warning shot:\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSTOP GUN VIOLENCE\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eICS Library, 2019\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"naturestripstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43622822510833,"sku":"ICS009","price":38.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/8859\/0065\/products\/seekers_guncontrolla.jpg?v=1675389948","url":"https:\/\/naturestripstore.myshopify.com\/products\/seekersinternational-the-guncontrolla-lp","provider":"naturestripstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}