ARTICLES
Listening Post: E. Honig
Label Profile: Ad Noiseam

ALBUMS
Leo Abrahams
Ammoncontact
Anka
Lloyd Barrett
Beach House
Bibio
Christina Carter
Davis & Jerman
Ecstatic Sunshine
Ensemble
Fluorescent Grey
Freiband
[guÿôm]
Chris Herbert
Home Video
Larvae
Lullabye Arkestra
Mathieu / Schaefer
MONO & w. end girlfriend
My Robot Friend
Nicolay
Pieter Nooten
Nuccini
Obfusc
Objekt4
Over the Atlantic
Para One
Proem
Red Sparowes
The Remote
Root 70
Florencia Ruiz
Ryuichi Sakamoto
Alan Sparhawk
Andy Stott
Thumbtack Smoothie
Tortoise
Triosk
Vlor

COMPILATIONS/MIXES
Ad Noiseam 2001-2006
Another Generic Sampler
Bip-Hop Generation 8
Diary of a Sweet Day
Idea Hoard Uncut
Innature
Morrow Choral Orchestra
Noise Factory Vol. 3
Squadron 2
Warp Works

3"/7"/10"/12"/EPs
Alias & Tarsier
Audion
Caroline
Home Video
Iz & Diz
Sami Koivikko
Mai
Mathhead
Monomachine
Narcotic Syntax
Quinoline Yellow
Sigur Rós
Samartzis & English
Samartzis & Inada
Andy Vaz
Andy Vaz Remixes
Waterprotection

VA: Diary of a Sweet Day
Post.disco

There's not a whole lot of information available for this release though a few details can be passed along: the 19-track compilation Diary of a Sweet Day is the inaugural release for post.disco, a label established by B33P3R (Tolga Taluy) and GoGooo (Gabriel Hernandez) in 2005 when the two were studying at l'Ecole Supérieure d'Art de Grenoble in France. The collection is an “aural diary of a certain day,” with a largely unfamiliar (to me at least) group of contributors asked to incorporate sounds from everyday life into their material.

More often than not, that translates into placid electro-acoustic settings ornamented by field elements that span a wide range of human experience: traffic noises, hydraulic sounds, people talking, church bells, kitchen activity, bird chirps, cat meows, etc. All glockenspiel tinkles and acoustic guitar strums, dot tape dot's pretty opener “Ventano” is a representative example of the bucolic style; others are more collage-styled in nature, jarring assemblages of musical fragments and electronic noise (“Brocoli” by Sebastien Roux and Christophe Bailleau, Nobuko's “Nuine,” Art2Fakt's “eliode1”). A few pieces would sound equally at home on a 12k compilation as they do here (the microtonal calm of Won's “A Flower,” the gently rippling surfaces of E D A's “061205 Ordinary Computer Day (Humans & Computer Drones)”). Memorable moments include the dancing flutes that billow into lulling weaves in B33P3R's “Love Fight,” ghostly guitar streams that flow through the haunted ruins of Karras's “Evening Mood No.1,” and Lem's entrancing closer “Lempark.” Though overlong at 78 minutes, Diary of a Sweet Day is a more-than-credible addition to the field-oriented soundscaping field.

October 2006