{"product_id":"moslang-norbert-wendy-gondeln-betty","title":"MOSLANG, NORBERT\/ WENDY GONDELN - Betty","description":"Edition of 300. \"Another visual-arty 7” to be quietly restrained by the bleached aesthetic design of a Meeuw Muzak sleeve, MM046 is a pair of recondite Bettys. The Betty on Side A is the creation of\u003cbr\u003eWendy Gondeln, who is perhaps far better known as contemporary German artist Albert Oehlen.\u003cbr\u003eThen Norbert Möslang introduces Side Bs betti-corr, and although Möslang also works in the\u003cbr\u003evisual arts he is more widely recognised as a practitioner of “cracked everyday electronics”\u003cbr\u003eand a former member of Swiss electronic free improvisation group Voice Crack. Further cross-\u003cbr\u003epollination is represented by Oehlens occasional earlier endeavours in the musical field,\u003cbr\u003eplaying in bands including Red Krayola, running a label and providing artwork for sleeves.\u003cbr\u003eBetty announces herself with a distorted gabber kick drum and a cheerfully naive organ\u003cbr\u003efigure which mischievously functions as a decoy for an aggressive and unstable violin to\u003cbr\u003eprovide the main narrative from here on in. Overall the piece would make quite a good\u003cbr\u003esoundtrack for a fight in a pub, having a kind of senseless, unpredictable tension, the\u003cbr\u003ecomedy of spontaneous violence. A couple of other sounds wade in, either placatory or\u003cbr\u003eadding to the damage. Particularly appealing is a rubbery voice-synthesis type purred gurgle\u003cbr\u003ethat seems to attempt to act as an owl-like voice of reason, ultimately found wanting.\u003cbr\u003eBy contrast Möslang produces a rich textural sound world sourced, I think, from the same\u003cbr\u003eviolin (Is she Betty?) but here granulated into icy splinters and flung into ceiling-less\u003cbr\u003espaces with the poker-faced accelerated elegance of Buster Keaton. Taken overall MM046 feels\u003cbr\u003ecombative, exploratory, playful.\" — Pete Um, Winter 2016.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Wendy Gondeln offers up a lo-tech, slow, techno rhythm with a number of additions\/interruptions, many of which are violin. Norbert Möslang has a highly edited piece of what could be a lot of violin sounds, very manic and Musique Concrète-ish. Who knows what this means in the Meeuw Universe, but have an evening with some drinks and play through your Meeuw 7\"s. You wont be sorry.\" - Swill Radio.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Meeuw Muzak","offers":[{"title":"7\"","offer_id":893331701767,"sku":"20210-MEEUW MUZAK","price":7.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2295\/2925\/products\/R-8112090-1455456754-3472_jpeg.jpg?v=1571718478","url":"https:\/\/www.fusetronsound.com\/products\/moslang-norbert-wendy-gondeln-betty","provider":"fusetron","version":"1.0","type":"link"}