Cari Lekebusch - Chaos & Order album flac

this record doesn't kick the subs very hard but I still find it a fascinating enigma. even in 2019 I'm not sure what to make of it / how to use it. A1 Choice is the cut for me.

The concept of this fabulous records might not appeal to everyone: I don't think it is ment to make simple "sense" in a way that jumps at you when you listen to it the first time. You have to listen and read in the booklet and think about the information you find. Note that the tracks are mentioned as programs - to me, this album tries to depict reality as machines with awaking artificial intelligence might 'view' it, and the vocoder-interludes with their cryptic texts appear to be some kind of process between and in the 'programs', the actual tracks. There are blurred lyrics in the booklet which sound like a piece of 'matrix'-philosophy; they circulate around the word 'ye' and try to illustrate it with metaphors. 'ye' seems to represent the artificial intelligence trying to make sense of it's own existence. Also in the booklet, we find something like a quick manual by the programmer himself, who Cari Lekebusch calls "Dr. Szerementa". This text mentions unstabilities in the program as soon as a certain application is applied. the error is "the illusion of a living machine, but it is only the imprint of the programmer". Maybe Caris Music on this album is ment to be the running programm which starts to reflect about itself during being played. Caris ideas and concepts are in the music, but in the end, they are only an imprint of the actual ideas and concepts in his mind. Just my 10 cents. Oh, and the music is great!

Now, I like futuristic, sci-fi based techno as much as the next person, but Cari Lekebusch’s CHAOS & ORDER takes it a little too far. It’s not the music itself: that’s fine, even if it’s not exemplary. The breaks and moody melodies sound like they’ve beamed directly from the dark spots on the sun. “Change is Life,” for instance, could have come off the soundtrack for Blade Runner, while “Data/Flow Ctrl” is all icy minimalism. But Lekebusch’s vocodered interludes are the problem. They spout off meaningless cyberpunk hoo-haw that would make William Gibson blush. He’s trying a bit too hard, I think, and the album suffers for it. It leaks into the lyrics on “Ots.Prg” and seems silly in its earnestness. Even the track titles imply a sci-fi pretentiousness that doesn’t deliver the final goods. As a comparison, think of Dopplereffekt’s LINEAR ACCELERATOR. While that has the strange sci-fi titles, the music takes the aesthetic from the inside, rather than try to apply them from the outside, as Lekebusch does. In the end, there’s just too much control, not enough chaos.