RNDM - No Beginning
RNDM (Oliver Kargl) has worked magic here with a sample from Steely Dan's "Do It Again." For me personally, this is a weird dream come true, the combination of Dial Records (or, really, Laid) and Steely Dan, a band I've written about a number of times for academic, professional, and romantic purposes. Reminiscent, in some ways, of Villalobos's "Fizheuer Zieheuer," with its horn exclamations and landscape of minimal gradations and declivities, "No Beginning" also has commentary: someone in the background keeps saying what sounds like "I'll tell you," in a distinctly plaintive voice, like there's a message here, and the track gets busier and looser as it progresses--from a dense and tightly packed initial state, this thing expands and becomes more and more complex. It could be that there is no beginning, this has already been happening forever. You can't do it again because there is no 'again,' and never will be. This is the infinite Dan, imagined by RNDM.[Buy 2010 Dial Records]