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Blackout 03:03
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CastingOutNines 05:31
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Serration 01:32
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Pyramide 02:49
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TheEarthPit 09:14
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TenMillionWaysToDie 08:36
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MountHex 00:51
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AshenRegiment 06:32
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BloodHaze 06:18
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about

Recorded live to tape at Dog Tunnel Studios, London, June 2015.
Edited and mastered at Studio 1, Bangor University, North Wales, 2016.

Produced by Dirt&Space.

Originally released as a limited edition cassette tape (DNZ08) on Dinzu Artifacts, February 28, 2017.

Reviews:

Andrew Leslie Hooker handed me a copy of the tape by Dirt & Space, which is him teamed up with the multi-talented Graham Dunning. Just as well, as the physical release is now sold out at source. Ten Million Ways To Die (DINZU ARTEFACTS 08) arrives with a rather dismal photo of urban squalor and nine tracks of varied electronic noise, whose episodes are titled with cryptic references to an end-of-the-world scenario which seems to involve both military forces (‘Ashen Regiment’) and occult ones (‘Mount Hex’). Although Hooker performed a tabletop set at the Museum, using controlled feedback, this record was made using many physical objects and tape manipulation (including loops), as well as the no-input mixing board. Consequently, it rolls out with the brutal indifference of an armoured vehicle, crushing pebbles beneath its remorseless tracks; what I mean is there is much heft and weight to the sound, and the lower bass tones are of the sort that can induce nausea, despair, and physical sickness in the enemy. Some moments of Ten Million Ways To Die work quite well, invoking the details of an unpleasant new world filled with unknown terrors and almost devoid of human habitation; and there’s evidently been a lot of engagement between the players and their non-musical objects, milking the plate and spring reverb units until they yield fresh aural horrors. In tone and spirit, it’s a kind of contemporary update on industrial music genres. They may keep the harsh noise bursts to a minimum, but the mood of gloom and menace is very much to the fore at all times.
Ed Pinsent - The Sound Projector

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released February 20, 2018

Andrew Leslie Hooker (no-input mixing board, samples, cassette tape & delays)
Graham Dunning (reel-to-reel recorder,1/4 inch magnetic tape loops, spring reverbs, feedback & found sound).

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Andrew Leslie Hooker Wales, UK

A visual artist & composer of no-input music based in N.Wales.
He is currently a PhD researcher in music at
the Academy of Creative and Performing Arts in Leiden, whilst contemporaneously working on
various sound, dance & extended cinema projects.
His work has been published by Entr'acte
Dinzu Artefacts Subcontinental Records
The SilentHowl
Korobushka Records
WormholeWorld ScatterArchive. ... more

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