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Fossil Aerosol Mining Project - 1986
Review by Aziz Poonawalla
The album 1986 by Fossil Aerosol Mining Project is a mesmerizing journey through the soundscapes of the past. The experimental ambient music takes the listener on a nostalgic trip back to the year 1986, with haunting soundscapes that evoke memories of a bygone era.
The album is a unique blend of field recordings, found sounds, and electronic manipulation, creating an eerie and captivating atmosphere. The tracks are carefully crafted to build a narrative that transports the listener through the various moods and emotions of the year 1986.
The album's standout tracks include "The Day the World Stood Still," which features haunting vocals and a driving beat, and "Chernobyl," which is an atmospheric and haunting meditation on the disaster that occurred that year.
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Filename: fossil-aerosol-mining-project-1986.rar- MP3 size: 5.9 mb
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| Track | Duration | Preview |
|---|---|---|
| 1986 | 23:13 |
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Notes
- The very first mixes that were made under the moniker Fossil Aerosol Mining Project date to January or February of 1986. They were produced on the floor of a 2-room apartment, using three effects pedals (one of which gave a nasty little 9-volt shock), two radio/cassette players (one utilized for its bad source switch), some recordings of a Moog Prodigy made three years earlier, and a Radio Shack four-channel mixer. The result was a series of long, improvised mixes that were soon forgotten, and replaced by very different strategies in the studio.
- In February of 2016, in observation of the 30th anniversary of sitting on the floor and receiving minor shocks as we embarked on the Fossil Aerosol project, we created a new, 23-minute extended mix that employs only material recorded and/or mixed during those first winter 1986 sessions. The piece is a 2016 composition, but it is built entirely of 1986 - turned inside out and frontways back 30 years later.
About Fossil Aerosol Mining Project
The Fossil Aerosol Mining Project began in the mid 1980s as a loose-knit group of artists and collectors interested in exploring and gathering the damaged remains of late 20th century popular culture. Of particular appeal were inadvertent examples of the post-industrial, post-apocalyptic landscapes so commonly imagined in Cold War-era media. Places and debris that fostered views of modern pop mummified, and contemporary provisions made artifact. Zombie pepsis and fossil aerosols.
The project began harvesting audio recordings in 1983. The first studio experimentation began in 1986, soon followed by compositions that employed using literal found sounds such as fragments of open reel 1/4 tape and 35mm film recovered from burnt out warehouses and abandoned drive-in theaters. The earliest work involved physical tape loops and analog signal processes, which were gradually replaced by digital delay treatments and multitrack manipulation.
Two limited edition cassettes were released in 1986 and 1989, before the project was abandoned. In 1995, the old works were briefly revisited, resulting in the remastered Cassette Recordings CD. Two additional CDs were produced during the late 1990s, using the old material and rapidly failing studio equipment.
In 2004 the Fossil Aerosol Mining Project was resurrected, and both old and new albums are now available through Afterdays Media and other labels. Fossil Aerosol still works primarily with found materials - audio artifacts and field recordings. Signal processing equipment (as well as the mixing board itself) remains the principal form of instrumentation.
Songs of enhanced decay and faked resurrection.
