CiMReference

Genre:

Electronic

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IDM

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Tracklist

Discos Alta 2:43
Swap File 5:39
Numerique 4:11
Fseek 2:52
By A River 3:38
Warm Data 2:24
Skim 2 1:45
First 3:48
MPC 3:45
Geosat Fill 1:40
Range 1:51
Reference 2:46
Clean Code 2:27
Blue Screen 4:16

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    Version Details Data Quality
    Cover of Reference, 2000-06-26, CD Reference
    CD, Album
    deFocus – foc352cd UK 2000 UK2000
    Cover of Reference, 2000-06-26, Vinyl Reference
    LP, Album
    deFocus – foc352lp UK 2000 UK2000
    Recently Edited
    Cover of Reference, 2022-01-10, Vinyl Reference
    2×LP, Album, Reissue, White
    Delsin – DSR-Cim4 Netherlands 2022 Netherlands2022
    Cover of Reference, 2022-01-10, Vinyl Reference
    2×LP, Album, Reissue
    Delsin – dsr-cim4 Netherlands 2022 Netherlands2022
    Reference
    24×File, WAV, Album, Reissue, 24 bit, 44.1 kHz
    Delsin – dsr-cim4 Netherlands 2022 Netherlands2022
    New Submission
    Cover of Reference, 2022-01-10, File Reference
    24×File, MP3, Album, Reissue, 320 kbps
    Delsin – dsr-cim4 2022 2022
    New Submission
    Cover of Reference, 2022-01-10, CD Reference
    CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered
    Delsin – DSR-CiM4-CD Netherlands 2022 Netherlands2022
    New Submission

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    Reviews

    • ngcazz's avatar
      ngcazz
      A spiritual forebear of Skee Mask's Pool with none of the pomp
      • mainstreamfm's avatar
        mainstreamfm
        Back in 2000 I was running a relatively popular online music magazine. I clearly this turning up for review. And I literally just let it sit there for months. Everything about it screamed genre mediocrity: the title, cover art, label.....everything. Fast forward 22 years later and it’s come around again to haunt me courtesy of this welcome re-issue by Delsin. This time, the main thing I can hear is a sort of innocence to it all. Presets that totally evoke the era but sculpted into tracks that barely last a few minutes, before hurriedly moving on to the next idea. ‘Warm Data’ and ‘Clean Code’ perfectly sum up this accomplished aesthetic.
        • filippo_morris's avatar
          filippo_morris
          I absolutely recommend the pressing of the vinyl! The organic sound on this vinyl is really nice :)
          • Seagulltim's avatar
            Seagulltim
            Such a gorgeous record and a really good pressing for white vinyl. So pleased the CD-only tracks have been released on this.
            • woo10clan's avatar
              woo10clan
              honestly, this is quite simply one of the best IDM records ever made.
              • Seagulltim's avatar
                Seagulltim
                Fabulous album. New repress out now on Delsin, in either black or white vinyl. Great pressing and includes the tracks previously only available on CD.
                • A.C.Tex's avatar
                  A.C.Tex
                  Repress by Delsin on 2x12" coming in January 2022, including tracks previously only on CD
                  • IgnoreAlienOrders's avatar
                    You rarely hear so many worthwhile ideas on a single electronic album. I agree that some songs should be longer, but it seems like while making one track, Walley got an idea for the next one, and quickly moved on. Who's to blame him. I prefer the CD because it has more tracks than the vinyl (it is also much cheaper).
                    Electronic music can take on characteristics of the machines which produced it --- it can also, and we know countless examples, sound profoundly human, tender, empathic, and sensitive, even without emulating instrumental music that existed before. In most songs here, CiM's juxtaposition of these qualities becomes a symbiosis. Listen to the glitching metallic beats of "Skim 2" stuttering forward like an ominous fax machine, the icy melody --- and then the pads arrive and what was mechanic then becomes a whisper in a sea of comfort and contentment. In "Blue Screen" this sequence is reversed to even greater accomplishment, and extended to over four minutes, to our delight. My favorite is "Cloud Cover". It hazily samples the basic melody of a Cuban big band standard and, to keep these weightless chords from floating towards the heavens, buttresses them with down-to-earth impatient drums.
                    • banffspring1972's avatar
                      banffspring1972
                      CiM is thought provoking with the same magnitude of Bola, BoC.. The reference album track Geosat fill is placid on my mind and generates an ever present warm / chill up the spine at every listening. I am sure he is referenced by few in the Vaporwave genre..
                      • citizengreen's avatar
                        citizengreen
                        This Album was just $10 bucks a couple years ago, now look! People just now realizing what a quality label deFocus was ??

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