46,000 Fibres - Reconstructed

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C/O the Central Bazaar/Infinite Expanse team come these dead stock copies of a 46,000 Fibres LP originally released right at the back end of the last century, not inconsequently probably the last time everything still felt up for grabs. First coming together in the early 90s and featuring a young Robin Rimbaud of Scanner, 46,000 Fibres started life as an experimental unit that took it's lead from the grand tradition of British improvised music that began with AMM. Six years later, with Rimbaud having left and the line-up slimmed to a three piece, Deconstructed found the trio of Richard Clarke, Tonal Davidson (aka Tonal D) and Leon Maurice-Jones traversing somewhat different terrain, taking inspiration from the vanguard of electronic music prevalent at the time and shifting it to their own outre instrincts. Contemporanous with Spring Heel Jack and counting Ashley Wales as a collaborator, there's a shared interest in the possibilities of marrying sound design, improv and jungle/hardcore, while elsewhere the minimalist textures of Raster Noton feels like a relevant touchstone, and you'd half expect to have heard this already via David Toop's Isolationism compilation series. That they weren't involved in the latter is probably a good thing for anyone coming to this new now - their obscurity has kept the interest low and price down. Be warned, such luxury might not last.