Advantages: Seamless transistion between tracks, great atmosphere and a good back story. Disadvantages: The length, the second track doesn't stand well alone.
...heard the fifth track of IBM 1401 - A Users Manual on Classic FM whilst channel hopping and demanded that the internet tell me more. I ordered the album and wasn't disappointed.
The album starts with some classical strings and some synth effects, before going into a sample taken from a recorded manual for the old IBM 1401 computers. These beasts required their own room and where the super-computer of their day. The artist Johan Johansson's father ... ...to make this piece, (apparently there is a dance to go with it but I've yet to find any videos of it on the internet).
The album then moves on as if the computer has now, like the one from Johansson's childhood, been outdated and replaced. The sampled voice-over is replaced by haunting sorrowful cries, again to the classical strings and synth effects before culminating in the fifth track 'The Sun's Gone Dim and the Sky's Turned Black', in which ...
lord_hygg 11.03.2009
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