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Tracks: Crucible Process, Minik-1, and Tour de Force.

After a well received electronica debut on his own label Tripel Records, and some wickedly creative underground hip-hop boot and plunder projects on its side-label Dubbel, Ascoltare (Dave Henson) demonstrates even further range in his music with Giving Set, Strange Lights' second release.

Giving Set consists of three tracks based on improvisation, found sounds, acoustic samples and digital cut-ups. Opening track Crucible Process was showcased on The Wire's Wire Tapper 12 in December 2004.

You can find free MP3 excerpts from this record here

And there's more. Giving Set Part Two is a companion set of recordings available in high-quality MP3 form, free of charge, from Tripel Records.

Tracks: The Man's Got Me Beat, Tongue, Africa is a Fridge, Holy Fire and Freak.

Alternately absurd and acutely real, these five songs from the enigmatic Cambridge-based Um are propelled by off-kilter, charity shop grooves, sampled loops and post-digital crunches and hums. His style is short, darkly humourous tales that are frequently eccentric and often touching. Something like the lovechild of Solex and Felix Kubin, sent back in time to an English school to hide their shame, he has developed a means of encoding his anxieties about life thus far in audio form, presented here for you to decipher. So get yourself a copy.

Read reviews here: Robots and Electronic Brains fanzine and Vanity Project issue 13