Blast Lock by Graham Dunning / Laica

Broken20 continue a spate of stellar releases with a sprawling three track album of site-specific drone and techno by Laica & Graham Dunning: 'Blast Lock'.

The sounds for this collection are all sourced from a former US military base near Cambridge, used for the decontamination of spy planes that had flown to the radiation-rich edges of space, en route to and from the skies above the USSR.

We spent an afternoon at the bunker collecting sounds and activating the space in various ways. We also played various sounds into the space, from synths or tone generators, at times recording the room sounds and at times improvising together, in a kind of joint performance with the space itself. Using contact mics and a sub speaker we turned some of the metal surfaces into low-frequency feedback resonators, using the material of the building to create sound.

Available on CD from the label here: https://store.broken20.com/album/blast-lock

Peeling paint and artefacts.
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