It’s that time of year when a (no longer) young man’s thoughts turn naturally to the Sonic Structures and Enigmatic Episodes of Shipwreck Radio. Read the introduction to this series here.
JULY 21 - SHIPWRECK RADIO VOLUME TWO
In many ways this is a prototypical Shipwreck Radio track, it starts with the greeting and welcoming charms sped up slightly and then repeats them slowed down moves seamlessly into the track as a main. It’s got all the elements we’ve come to expect from Shipwreck Radio songs, the ringing metallic sample, rushing roars and waves that could be vocal samples. The rushing roars, like rough choppy waves, make up the base of the track, sometimes rumbling in the background and sometimes surging to the foreground. The metallic ringing is joined by a low metallic scraping and both those periodically crest above the roar of the background.
Around the five minute mark a tinny metallic reverberation joins which is followed by the more familiar ringing, the track remaining resonant and reminiscent of previous Shipwreck Radio songs, while also remaining distinct, faster in tempo than many of the other tracks that mine the same vein of Sturm und Drang sonic structure of the low rumbling waves and ringing metal. At nine minutes it becomes a cacophony, more insistent and urgent in feel than the earlier tracks, which featured a menace that built slowly, where this track hits you at times like a torrent of water. The pace and insistency are maintained until the 14th minute when, abruptly, the track begins to slowly fade away, the roar waning and deteriorating until it breaks apart into silence.
Here again is another Shipwreck Radio track that successfully walks that uncanny line of familiar samples and complex and interesting structure.
Around the five minute mark a tinny metallic reverberation joins which is followed by the more familiar ringing, the track remaining resonant and reminiscent of previous Shipwreck Radio songs, while also remaining distinct, faster in tempo than many of the other tracks that mine the same vein of Sturm und Drang sonic structure of the low rumbling waves and ringing metal. At nine minutes it becomes a cacophony, more insistent and urgent in feel than the earlier tracks, which featured a menace that built slowly, where this track hits you at times like a torrent of water. The pace and insistency are maintained until the 14th minute when, abruptly, the track begins to slowly fade away, the roar waning and deteriorating until it breaks apart into silence.
Here again is another Shipwreck Radio track that successfully walks that uncanny line of familiar samples and complex and interesting structure.
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