MORMO – wasting 500 sounds

(CD, low impedance)

I’ll admit right away, I didn’t count how many sounds are being wasted away by Mormo. The idiosyncratic distorted idm approach of Mormo’s aka Tomasz Kaye’s electronica music helped me endure through several lonesome nights of urban darkness. I felt like a creative industry nomad staring into the dark and rainy night waiting for the light of life to shine in, but the atmospherical coldness and distancing of Mormo’s music by way of paradox intervention made the hours easier and more warm and laid back. Music like that has to work on glitches, breakbeats, radically ever-changing rhtyhm patterns and melodies hacked so into post modernism they seem like single sparks of tones rather than a continuous line. Because our lives have turned away from continuity and towards a constantly rising amount of chaos and complexity.

According to the principle of entropy, somebody else’s life has to become simpler and easier to be controlled for every step my life takes loosing control and adding layers of complexity and new problems. And it should also work vice versa. If that would be true and also measurable, it would change our lives around completely. We would have to refrain from solving our problems, because it would mean heaping problems on somebody else for no reason at all. And it would mean that as soon as something problematic happens to us, we can go out and find the culprit even if we never even heard of him and his acts have nothing to do with us directly, except for the universe striving for balance. However, it would mean getting to know a lot of new people and quarreling with them, which would lead to more people finding new problems and would end up in a hundred percent chaotic war situation with everyone against everyone else at the same time. Hopefully music like Mormo’s can take some pressure off.

“wasting 500 sounds” doesn’t seem too special at the beginning, but it grows with time. The fifteen tracks on the CD shift into one another and from the mastering and production, especially the cut off and jumping structures of most sounds it is hard to say when one track starts and another one ends. It is usually easy to guess when you are well in a new track, though. You’ll best find your way through this record by keeping track if the various miniscule elements and not the big picture. The helicopter view of this music is like an english farmside landscape with hundreds of small patches of different fields, and only those who have grown up in this area and lived there for the bigger part of their grown up life find their way around and now which patch is whose.