DJ Ordeal
Sea/Seagull
LP (E39)

 

Belgium £16.50 (including postage)

Europe £18.50 (including postage)

Rest of world £23 (including postage)

 

Edition of 200 copies

DJ Ordeal has been creating his progressively strange tape collages for well over a decade. Following more than a dozen releases, mostly on his own Sparticus Stargazer label, Sea/ Seagull may well be his oddest recording yet. Based on a multi-tracked and speeded-up vocal riff, played alongside recordings of sea breakers, voices, orchestral and seagull sounds, this is a painstakingly constructed audio tapestry, the result of intense, hour-upon-hour, tape-to-tape work.

 

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Reviews

Sea managed to cut up a whole side of ocean sounds, dropped in with the odd ominous clatter, and punctuated with a rather musical seagull effect. On Seagull, things get really interesting as he strips it all out save for the seagull sample, which is actually made up of a vocalist singing in the artist’s neighborhood — the various samples of her singing are sped up and pieced together to the effect that she sounds like the titular bird of low tide 

filth.This is a fascinating side of music, hypnotic and strangely satisfying, its noise simultaneously maddening and
scratching an itch that it formed itself. 

I feel like I’m going to be highly suggestible when this side closes.

Doug Mosurak at Dusted


[On Sea] There are glimpses of orchestral sound and speaking voices, but the waves dominate, turning the
side into a heavy and amorphous white noise experience. Seagull isolates the bird-like sounds and produces a much
more intriguing result, with hard, bright oscillating tones, seesawing across 

each other as Ordeal alternately runs tape forwards and in reverse.

Sam Davies in The Wire