Pole of Cold, by Ice Yacht

Pole of Cold

by Ice Yacht

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1.	Pole of Cold 08:17	buy track
2.	Racing The Arctic Shadow 06:56	buy track
3.	Snow Drifter 04:17	buy track
4.	Summer With The Snow Bees 04:20	buy track
5.	Vostock Station Hallucinations 09:10	buy track
6.	Whiteout Woman 05:26	buy track

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Tucked away on Snatch 3 (the last of the Snatch Tapes compilations) released in 1981 is a track by Ice Yacht called "0 Degrees North" an austere piece of drum loop and drone music, there was talk of a full tape having been recorded by the band (?) but no documentation of any further releases can be found. Rumour had it that Ice Yacht had embarked on an ill-fated trip to the North Pole attempting to retrace a journey made by the Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen in 1888. This story was given credence when last year a research group uncovered a cassette tape in a vacuum-sealed case in the permafrost. The tape was marked simply Ice Yacht - Pole of Cold. After letting the tape thaw out it was then baked in an oven allowing the transfer of the recordings. Pole of Cold contains six tracks of analogue electronics seemingly mapping an arctic exploration to the coldest place on the planet though exactly when and where they were recorded is unknown.

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From Aquarius Records
...deliciously vintage sounding album of crude/cold sequences for oblique metallic synth-noise monotone. Somewhere between Factrix, Thought Broadcast, and of course Sanderson's own Storm Bugs.

From the Sound Projector
Superb tape of maximal art-electronic fizz and phase propelled along with juicy analogue pulsations by the cubic tonne…this is Philip Sanderson using another one of his playful aliases.

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released April 1, 2015

Format: DL and MC (100 copies).
Release Date: 2015

PS: Rotasynth. MFB Nanozwerg, Guitar.

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