Title: Infinite Coastline
Artist:
Niklas Zimmer / James Webb
Producers: Niklas Zimmer / James Webb
Studio: Upland Studio
Label: Upland Music

Niklas Zimmer's recording session with James Webb on Infinite Coastline owes as much to deliberate choice as it does to complete chance. Random creation - an improvised, but deliberate start and an indeterminate path. Throwing sounds out to see what comes back, choosing, of course, what you keep in the end. Chiming percussion and dense keyboard pads filtered through effects pedals, mixed with short-wave radio and dictaphone samples. There's a definite ambient beauty which is constantly being interrupted by sharp shards of electronic sound and / or cymbals of various calibre. Like a numb office space caught in a timeless stream of sunlight, possessed, in the corner, by a demon fax machine which never received enough attention as a child. Actually fucking brilliant.

 


Bignity van der Want / Letcher
Sondebok Battery 9
Infinite Coastline Niklas Zimmer / James Webb
4/4 Down The Stairs Felix Laband
Perd Oor Die Maan Laurinda Hofmeyr
Afrocentric Jimmy Dludlu
'n Vis Innie Bos Anton Goosen
Serious Peaceful Crime Unit
Jedi Rollers
The Summer Eye Black Milk
Sounds of the Durban Underground Various
Snowflake Zen Arcade
The Moon is a Spoon Sunways
Memoirs of a Clone Watkin Tudor Jones Jnr.
Conference Niklas Zimmer
Mondmusiek Breyten Breytenbach
Clear Dreamshop
IT Various
Steady On Mood Phase 5ive
Delenta Delenta
In The Meantime Watershed
Faith in Love Coleske
Torn & Tattered Henry Ate
Butterfly Peepl Qzoo
Grannysmith Grannysmith
Myrtleville APE
Gathering Marcus Wyatt
Moment of Truth Africa O'Ye

Never Ever Ever.. Wonderboom
6 Faces of Dr Kwela
Kwela Tebza
A Life Less Strange Semisane
Kwaai - Ragga Earthquake
Seed Tananas
Clear
Lesley Rae Dowling
Matabele Ants Tony Cox
Mulp Plum
63 Tree
Ohm Ohm
Addictive Personalities The Original Evergreen
Jan Skopgraaf Piet Botha
The Urgency of Now Fruit Fly Navigators
Jou Medemens is Dood The Buckfever Underground
Tranquillity Gloria Bosman
Land of no Cadellacs Famous Curtain Trick


hosted by

Frank Opperman & Prime Time Addiction Serial Boyfriend
Interzone The Man from Interzone
Niklas Zimmer & Brydon Bolton Not for Sale
Springbok Nude Girls
Surpass the Powers
Nibs van der Spuy
Lines on my Face
Sugardrive
When I died I was Elvis
Kill me Kate Zero
Sathima Bea Benjamin Cape Town Love
Tea 'n Tequila
Various Artists
Tony Cox
Looking for Zim
Wessel van Rensburg Song for E
Zim Ngqawana
Zimology
Boo Munki Punk
Karma One day Soon
Durban Noise Works ..And Scraps
Sunways No more Heavy
Black Diamond
Me and my Friends
The LED 2am
Acoustic Kitchen
Acoustic Kitchen
Citrus Freedom
Niklas Zimmer The Magic Spaces
Dorp Danger Gevaar Ngozi
Sons Of Trout Ticks on George
Plum Jump Back
Frank Mallows & Brydon Bolton Adamastor
Matthew vd Want & Chris Letcher Low Riding
Virtual Jazz Reality VJR
Moses Taiwa Molelekwa Genes and Spirits
Egyptian Nursery New Anthem
Naked Naked
Colorfields Incidents
The Original Evergreen Burn the Evidence
Jimmy Dludlu Echoes from the Past
Koos Kombuis Madiba Bay
Koos Kombuis Blameer Dit Op Apartheid
Paul Hanmer Trains to Taung
Wonderboom Is It?
Valiant Swart Dorpstraat Revisited
Fetish Fetish
Vusi Mahlasela Silang Mabele
Dorp Five Steps Off The Pacemaker
Landscape Prayers Bush Telegraph
Juice Lusting

 

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with Matthew van der Want and Chris Letcher on Low Riding.

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