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Biomekano
(RCD2024) Rune Grammofon 2002
10 Tracks. 50mins32secs.
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Affiliated to the Tromsø school of electronic music, Information are Per Henrik Svalastog and Jørgen Knudsen. Although the later is actually from Bergen, in the south of Norway, Information are in fact closely related to the wide open space music of Biosphere and Alog. After two albums released on Beat Service between 1998 and 2000, Information have now landed a deal with label of extremes Rune Grammofon and are presenting their third and most accomplished record to date with Biomekano.
Following the beautiful and experimental Successor with its phenomenal 99 tracks destined to be played at random, creating an amazing 9801 possible listening combinations, Biomekano sees Information returning to a more reasonable number of compositions and a more straightforward listening experience. The crisp sound and beat structures put together by Svalastog and Knudsen range from precise mechanical organisations to intricate organic constructions supporting insistently waxing and waning composed melodies. Often inverting the relationship between soundscapes and beats, the later showing a tendency to leap in the foreground, the duo defy the conformist approach to ambient music, distracting the listener’s attention from the real focal point of their work and incidentally allowing them to freely reorganise their sonic arrangements. At other times, the same soundscapes are highlighted in much more obvious fashion, exposing their rudimentary atmospheric nature. The pair never establishes any clear definition between either format, favouring an intrinsically intuitive organisation of their music instead. Svalastog and Knudsen also attach a great importance to sound positioning. With a clever use of stereo, they amplify the impact of their compositions by playing on the interaction between each component of a track. This results in Biomekano being intense and fluid from start to finish, with contrasting elements providing a constant balance to the work.
Although connections with the likes of Biosphere are unavoidable, Information develop their own concept of ambient electronica, very much based on process found sounds and ethereal melodies. With this album, Information not only prove to be a consistent formation, but also one of the most progressive and creative of the Nordic scene.
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TRACK LISTING
01 Plot Ratio (Replug) 06 Sufficient Sunlight
02 Tropical Investigation (Leisure Recycled) 07 A Radical Co-ordination
03 Every Possible Artificial Condition 08 This Low-rise City
04 Higher Densities / Maximum Choice 09 Center By Celebrating The Loop
05 Stacking Of Different Natures 10 Biomechanics By Accident
 
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ARTIFACT
Beat Service 1998

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Enormous Complex / The Air & The Pilot
Nightwheel
I.F.F. #2
Seabourne / Stationary
Threshold
Timer # 4
Helmet / Long-Tail Boat
Taiga
Mind Is Beautiful
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SUCCESSOR
Beat Service 2000

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Avoid Alchohol During A Meteor Shower
20 Tons Of Cocaine
Together At The Airport
Buy A Pearl
Killing 1.3 Million Chickens
Through Other Major Cities
The Shape Of The King Kong Gorilla
Budhist Gifts
After A Severe Fire
The Last Frontier
Coin In Plastic
The Kodiak Bear
The Double Tracks Of The Trans-Siberian Railroad
From Darwin To Adelaide
In The Premier Quarry
302cm Around His Waist
Dropping 150 000 Granates & 100 000 Bombs
General Involved
Average Egyptian
Landmines In War
Average Indian
Avoid Having To Work
64 500 Tons Of Fish
Walking City
Outside A Combat Zone
Building Of The Oilpipe
Throwing Flowers In The Sea
Confronting Belgrade
Two Chinese Pandas
Wild-West Adventure
Protect The Children From Going Blind
Greetings To The East & The West Of The World
Shooting Stars
Tropical Investigation
The Farming Of The Land
Circle At Komazawa Stadion
40 000 Pills Of Vitamin A
Massive Growth
Shut Into Space From Baikonur
475 000 Tons Of Garbage
Starting In The Southwest
Live On Television
Publishing A Plan
The Sea Outside
Still Alive In August
The Third Plague Pandemic
Registrating The Weather Conditions
Just After Take-off
51 Times In Different States
Put It In The Sand
A Distance Of 8 Kilometers
Maried On The Same Day
From Male To Female
Star Of Africa
The First Answering Machine
Rice, Rubber & Teak
102 Stories
In Favour Of The Politics
The Position Of The Electron
Bowling Is Out
Magnificent Country
50 405 People Picking Garbage
No Rain Since 1981
Two Italian Underwater Torpedoes
Devided In Three Parts
Taking Part In A Race
Desolate Spots In The Open Sea
To Little Stimulation
Beneath The Twin Towers
A German Pilot Reaches New York
212 Objects In The Stomache Of A Man
It Has A Transmitter
The Sky Was Grey In Tokyo Bay
Remembering 15 000 Telephone Numbers
Milking 30 Cows
10 People In A Tubestation
58 Days In An Iron-lounge
947 Needles
Last Major Outbreak
Reclamation Plant no. 1
Wireless Radioconnection Is Established
Before He Returns
Reactor Number 4
Just After Take-off 
Videorecorder For Sale
Avoid Radars
Oil In The World
The Big-needle Trees
On A Diet
32 000 Ilegal Bars
Introduction
Because Of Flood & Tornadoes
1265 Different Credit-cards
By The Whisteling Language
150 Years Old & Alive Today
Publishing A Cross-word
Murder Of A Christian Boy
Not Able To Read
12 More Under Construction
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BIOMEKANO
Rune Grammofon 2002

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Plot Ratio (Replug)
Tropical Investigation (Leisure Recycled)
Every Possible Artificial Condition
Higher Densities / Maximum Choice
Stacking Of Different Natures
Sufficient Sunlight
A Radical Co-ordination
This Low-rise City
Center By Celebrating The Loop
Biomechanics By Accident
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