Lost and Damaged (Nacht Plank)

Album review

This, the concluding component of a trilogy of remix albums released by Lee Norris, is also the most rewarding. Having had his Metamatics and Norken projects rewired and remodeled respectively, he closed this triumvirate of three quite different musical personalities with the drifting ambient leanings favored by his Nacht Plank moniker. Like its predecessors, the contributors to Lost and Damaged came onboard through exchanges between Norris and his potential remixers via the chat function of his NeoOuija website, though operated with a slightly different modus operandi in its offering to these producers samples from previously unreleased material, lifted from the Septs-Vent full-length, scheduled for an Autumn 2003 release through the Type label. Despite having enlisted 13 different artists to work on only four separate tracks, the resultant album is remarkably cohesive and diverse, hints of percussion lost in catacombs of red-eyed atmospherics forged from warm keys and the occasional flutter of steel guitar -- the quiet hum of studio machinery the only clue to the synthetic nature of the music.

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