a slow rip - for the time being (endgame)

for the time being is a double album compiled from musical works of the australian trio a slow rip since their beginnings four years ago. this project that is not so new on the australian music scene is focusing its work on analog and virtual analog synths with which they are expressing their ambient visions of sound. using also prepared guitar, vocals and noises they are creating long, dark moody, atmospheres and drones remind us of new experimental electronic artists, but still their soundscape aesthetic is not focused on the usage of laptops but on their improvisational approach with instruments. the first cd is mostly ambient oriented and more melodic that the second one which is darker, percussive and instrumental revealing their drone, prog and kraut influences. these two cd collage from their works showing the distillation of their previous seven cdr albums is not giving anything new on the music scene but it is still an enjoyable mix of oldschool electronic music approaches. (td)