The tone takes an about turn, and mid-tempo drumming enters the mix, adding a menacing edge to the jam, punctuated by whirring space-age synth washes and demonic plucked zither-like strings. Suddenly glass smashes and we jump cut to odd shapes getting plodded out on a contemplative and very pretty Silent Way Rhodes piano, and forlorn saxophone notes start to ring out with very un-Gnod tenderness. Several minutes or abstract sound effects, and battling synth noises litter the foreground while wave after wave of bassy throbbing noise rhythmically pulsates underneath. The album comprises many layered and reassembled sessions at the mill, and the many seamlessly sewn together parts that make up ‘Control Systems' microcosmically comes to symbolise the album as a whole. Thematically, this summarises much of the activity on Infinity Machines, which is ultimately a clash of the internal and external the sound of many participating artists manifesting their clashing internal worlds in the Islington Mill, daydreaming together. Later in the track, another resident goes on, "notions of public and private are very mixed up.daydreaming is a kind of private space."
The seventeen minute opener, 'Control Systems' begins with laughter from one Islington Miller, with another commenting, "I quite like people being around, I also like to know I can have a bit of space and shut the door".
Infinity Machines is littered with several unexpected new elements, from the rambling spoken word samples taken from residents and artists based in the group's Islington Mill, to the Rhodes piano and aforementioned saxophone that takes centre stage at several key junctures in the album. Infinity Machines feels like something of a crucible for it all, blending all things Gnod that have come before into one gigantic, filthy, trippy, hazy, noisy, and occasionally beautiful mess. The many members of the Gnod diaspora have further broadened the collective's palette in recent years, with the Tesla Tapes label putting out a wide range of garotting experimentalism, key members Chris Haslam and Paddy Shine spreading noisy techno vibrations as Dwellings and Druss, and the Gnod-associated Tombed Visions label headed by Gnod's sax-player David McLean firing out slabs of fringe jazz and icy minimalism. Gnod have worn very many pointy hats during their career to date, from the heavy motorik of Chaudelande, to the tripped out near-ambient tribal rituals of The Somnambulist's Tale, and dozens more CD-R, cassette and short run releases.
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