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dalhous - the composite moods collection vol.1: house number 44 - blackest ever black - vinyl

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Genre: Techno / Electro - Electronics

1. Response To Stimuli
2. It Itself, Is Harmless
3. Running Sheets
4. Ecstasy As A Mask Or A Shield
5. Conscience Of Nerves
6. Research Network
7. On A Level
8. End Of Each Analysis
9. Mimetic
10. Content For Feelings
11. Zero Point Zero Six Per Cent
12. Implicit Use Of Abstraction
13. Statistical Order
14. Results
15. Vestibule
16. Everything They Wanted To Hear
17. Bahy-Oh-Feed-Bak
18. Methods Of Elan
19. Lines To Border

House Number 44 is the first volume of The Composite Moods Collection, a new cycle of Dalhous recordings that examines the relationship between two individuals co-habiting in the same confined space - their interactions, their sense of self and of each other, and the pregnant space between.

One of these people, the protagonist (if you like) of House Number 44, is, or at least believes themselves to be, in fine mental health. The other appears distinctly unwell – detached, isolated, often feeling helpless and unable to influence the world around them; at other times prone to committing acts of extraordinary aggression and manipulation.

The title of The Composite Moods Collection nods to the world of film and library cues, riffing on the utilitarian idea of music “to suit the mood” and the appealing if archaic notion that a “mood” can be a discrete or fixed thing, a unit of feeling. Dalhous’s Marc Dall takes this notion and runs with it: he attempts to convey a bipolarity of mood, each movement contradicting or erasing what came before, making progress impossible. An illness that underpins and sabotages every thought. And so, while a finely crafted and very deliberate narrative connects each cue to the next, it is not a smooth or a linear path. On the contrary it is jarring, complex, subject to severe and sudden modulations; one step forward, two steps back.