MP3: The Rollercoaster Project - What Happened

Anthemaic drone digs amongst the diamonds, snow and leaves and finds some soil. For a moment metallic drills of synths driven by a rising tide of electricity give way to all those working to get down on their hands and knees and dig - it’s the most comfortable way - and in a panic it seems like the fastest. There cold hands find the soil, and the Rollercoaster Projects finds a voice. And they celebrate.

I’ve been really enjoying (digging?) The Rollercoaster Project’s electronica for years, Dreamboat Records recently featured this new track ‘What Happened’ on their 2008 sampler.

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There are plans for a 2008 Rollercoaster Project release, and on the strength of this, and on the back of other similar U.K electro-drone sounds/projects new in 2008 (Fuck buttons, and Banjo or Freakout) Rollercoaster Project might just be the most accessible and grandest of them all. But they all sounded pretty damned fucked up and shaken this way and that and smoothed out.

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Ah-ha! I see you there! Writing whilst I write! Sean at Said The Gramphone similtaneously contextualises The Rollercoaster Project within an utterly apocalyptic scene of Soviet Particle accelerators and questions like “PURE PROTON BEAM” CAPITALISED for emphasis. If you don’t already read Said The Gramophone, do.

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Candians droners Stars of the Lid realised one of my favourite albums of 2007 “And Their Refinement of The Decline” is fantastic on triple vinyl. It’s very different and much more minimal and stretched out than Rollercoaster Project, it weighs it at over 2 hours. Awesome & hard to comprehend.

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Photos by Adele Booysen, Tunnelbug respectivly.

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