THE INFANT CYCLE "Playout Extracts"
The Ceiling | CEIL026 | 5" EP | 2003

From the label info: "In its continuing need to release high-fidelity music on low-fidelity mediums, The Infant Cycle presents a new, free lathe-cut taster of the "Playout" project (an earlier taster appeared on the CD supplement of Paris' Fear Drop magazine). Using the source of one carved record's playout groove, two brief snapshots to its transformation, returned to the snap, crackle and pop gene pool. The full versions should be available on CD in 2004 courtesy of Merchants of Sound/Mutant Music. Limited to 40 copies". That statement makes clearer the arrival of an enigmatic parcel on a shiny day. At first sight I thought it was a strange looking CD, but double pressed plate with info - 45 RPM got me surprised!!! I guess this gem, limited to 40 copies, must have become an object of desire for many record collectors! As the title suggests, there are two excerpts from larger works we'll get to know soon. Jim Dejong follows the path of "Ephedrin Bird Samba" 3" CD-R on Locus of Assemblage - aesthetic sound works; although this time we get harsher, rumbling sounds with micro noises and drones. There're only a few minutes of music that will sure excite curiosity in consumers of works from Jeph Jerman, MSBR, Eso Steel and others of that ilk... I am looking forward too!!!

[krzysztof sadza