Bleep

The planet’s busiest noise maker Thomas Brinkmann further nestles himself neatly within the industrial avant garde tradition with this addition to his wide-reaching discography. The 21-track long factory line drone of Raupenbahn is ‘played’ by five machines, weft winders and shuttle looms all, signposting the great debt modern computers owe to early industrial technology. These recordings are treatment- and processing-free, allowing for the shuttering hypnotism of metal speak for itself. Who among us hasn’t felt some childlike joy at the whirring sounds of a printer?