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1.	DePreston - Dedicated to Ambulance Victoria 06:59	info
2.	When Use Becomes Abuse 08:57	info
3.	Double Monster 04:08	info
4.	Fragmentation Focus 09:43	info
5.	Lost Air 06:44	info
6.	Transferred (excerpt) 04:45	info
7.	Transubservience 05:37	info
8.	Unideation 04:47	info
9.	Vox Pop 1 02:38	info
10.	Our Swimmer 04:29	info
11.	Vox Pop 2 02:22	info
12.	Soundoffsound 09:11	info
13.	Hex Rx (disintegration) 03:47	info

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A collection of limited release / unreleased / compilation only tracks

MUSIQUE MACHINE REVIEW

Automating, the bleak ambient project of Sasha Margolis, has existed since 2007, and released more than 10 CDrs in that time. This album "Givens", released in 2012, is a lengthy lo-fi industrial noisescape which blends from one track to the next.

In the harsher moments we have washed out grey distortion with muffled mids and the highs rolled off, a classic cassette tape sort of sound, though this is a CDr. Elsewhere we have despairing, lonely synth pads, uneasy dissonant drones, the remote hums and chuggings of machines, and occasionally an outright alarm ("When Use Becomes Abuse").

The coldly claustrophic static womb promotes a brooding, misanthropic state of mind. It is not distorted or loud by noise standards, but it is quite enveloping. One can sense in the sound a deep displacement and dissatisfaction with society in this music. Margolis' primary voice for expressing this is long samples, the sort that make you think.

Particularly memorable is the sample of an inspiration speaker in "Double Monster"; coupled with the mournful pads in the background, the fight to attain the positivity of interaction described by the speaker seems hopeless. It serves as a reminder of the way ambient music can serve as the perfect counterpart to an emotional monologue, in a way nothing else quite could without distracting from the message. It also recalls to me a spectacularly disturbing and very underrated dark ambient opus, Tho-So-Aa's "Identify".
-Josh Landry
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released July 13, 2012

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Post production by James Dean at Electric Sounds

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Automating Melbourne, Australia

Automating is Sasha from Melbourne, Australia. Sifting through the sonic waste and discarded technology left by the roadside of a world speeding too fast into the future. Field recordings, found sound, tape manipulation, noise and effects units. Currently pursuing live and studio created binaural soundscapes and archaic tape based drones. ... more

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