Rome, Rome

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category: music > digital

record label: Thrill Jockey

year: 1996

catalog number: thrill 029

tracks: 1: Leaving Perdition 2: Intermodal 3: Lunar White 4: She's A Black Belt 5: Rohm 6: Radiolusence (Version) 7: Deepest Laws

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Rome is Richard Smith bass, melodica, Elliot Dicks drums, drum brain, Adam Gruel synth. Rome is focused on space and depth in the literal sense. Richard uses several manipulative machines on his bass-delay, pitch shifter, electo magnet to alter not only the tone but the time. Adam recycles Richards live bass through a condenser mike on a cheap Yamaha sampler- originally designed as a toy to mess with short phrases- and then feeds the line through various effects, including delay. The results are gorgeously amorphous soundscapes undergirded by the familiar muscle of dublike bass lines. This textural exploration is not without for; however this form is far removed from the verse chorus verse more commonly found in rock. They do however retain the visceral energy of rock with the pulse provided by the drums of Elliot Dicks.