DIAL - 168k

Sealed (and budget friendly) copies of 2007 CD release from DIAL on Jacqui Hams label, CEDE.

"Dial was started in 1991 by Jacqui Ham of the No Wave band Ut, and artist and musician Rob Smith. Dial’s first line-up included Ham on vocals and guitar, Smith on guitar, God's Lou Ciccotelli on drums and Dominic Weeks from Furious Pig, and Het, on bass and later on synthesizer. After Lou left, Dial began using an Alesis drum machine, programmed by Smith. Described as an archaeological unit rather than simply a band, Dial craft their lo-fi, outer limit sound using the structures of rock, improvisation and the embrace of chaos. Throughout the 1990s, Dial rehearsed in Wapping, East London, and recorded the sessions on an Akai CS-F11 cassette machine. These were compiled to make the 1996 CD 'Infraction', mastered by Dennis Blackham and released on their own label Cede.' Infraction' was followed by 'Distance Runner' (2000) recorded in London and on tour in France. In 2007 they released the seminal '168k', recorded in London and in a barn in Cornwall, it was lauded as one of the best albums of the year."

"...a lustrous, cracked-mirror mantra...spectral and brutal in equal measure...between abrasive noise and oddly meditative controlled chaos...a blurred-out, ghost-in-the-machine howl that never once lets up" (Warped Reality)