The Caretaker - Everywhere At The End Of Time

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Apparently he's just wrapped up the project with the sixth and final stage, "mirroring the ultimate descent into dementia and oblivion", and it caps off a twenty year run.

I've dipped in and out of this stuff over the years and it has a strange pull to it, although it's probably not as fashionable now that the whole 'hauntology' thing has died down somewhat.
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THE CARETAKER - Everywhere At The End Of Time - Stage 6

Earlier this year The Caretaker provided closure to a 20 year-long act that has uncannily lurked in the shadows of so many of our listening lives. Clad for the last time in Ivan Seal’s specially commissioned artwork, ’Stage 6’ found The Caretaker mirroring the ultimate descent into dementia and...
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No Future 2012 - http://k-punk.abstractdynamics.org/archives/010368.html

The great sonic-theoretical contribution of The Caretaker to the discourse of hauntology was his understanding that the nostalgia mode has to do not with memories but with a memory disorder. The Caretaker’s early releases seemed to be about the honeyed appeal of a lost past: Al Bowlly’s aching croon in the Strand ballroom in prewar tearoom London, buried beneath the sound which constitutes something like the audio-correlate of hauntology itself: crackle. In veiling the past, crackle also makes the dimension of time audible. It is through this scratching of the scanner-lens that we can hear the time-wound, the chronological fracture, the expression of the sense, crucial to hauntology, that ‘time is out of joint’. Dyschronia.

As The Caretaker project has developed, though, it has become more about amnesia than memory. Theoretically pure anterograde amnesia is not about the inability to remember, so much as the incapacity to make new memories. The inability to distinguish the present from the past. The cultural pathology of a clipshow culture locked into endless rewind.

It as if The Caretaker has taken us from an Overlook hotel/ Dennis Potter themepark into a simulation of neurological disorder. Fragments of tunes providing minimal orientation in an labyrinth of abstract sound. Have you heard this before? You can never be sure.
 
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I need to find my equivalent to kpunks caretaker, someone only I like that basically makes music just for me to write about.
 
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The whole thing is on sale on Bandcamp for next to nothing, almost a steal. Have been reading up K-Punk with it on the background -quite an experience. There should be more theory with well-precise music to inspire and go along with it.
 
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"also in the same dream i found an album i wish really existed on rateyourmusic.
can't remember the artist or title but it was two words for each, similar sized names/words
album cover was black background and white text with a distinctive font
album was released in 2000 and recorded from 1999-2000
genres were
Hypnagogic Pop, Post-Industrial, Ambient Techno
Minimal Synth, Ambient Pop
descriptors were
lo-fi, atmospheric, rhythmic, male vocals, mysterious, lonely, melodic, sombre, dark, nocturnal, lethargic, hypnotic, surreal, repetitive, dense, warm, cold

reminded me a little of my friend auriel/echo's music. lots of square wave/sawtooth leads/somber melodies and constant rhythmic momentum. like a cross between the whole steve thomsen/joseph hammer/robert turman thing, basic channel (specifically bcd-2) and arctica by konrad kraft. maybe pop by gas with harder emphasis on the kick drum and snares or muslimgauze circa betrayal/veiled sisters. but a lot of emphasis on the techno momentum"
from my friend carol
momentum is the word, scream MOMENTUM
 
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