Scanner

   
Artist: Scanner

   Genre(s): 
Soundtrack
   Ambient
   Metal: Heavy
   Electronic
   Metal: Power
   Soundtrack
   Ambient
   Metal: Heavy
   Electronic
   Metal: Power
   

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Discography:


   
 Reason By Heart, Sleep By Twilight

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 3


   
 Messe: Macht Ges Klangs/Klang Der Macht

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 13


   
 Scantropolis

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 10


   
 Lauwarm Instrumentals

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 6


   
 Ball Of The Damned

   Year: 1997   
Tracks: 9


   
 Mental Reservation

   Year: 1996   
Tracks: 11


   
 Accretions: Mort Aux Vaches

   Year: 1996   
Tracks: 5


   
 Scanner (Ash 1.1)

   Year: 1993   
Tracks: 1


   
 Terminal Earth

   Year: 1990   
Tracks: 10


   
 Hypertrace

   Year: 1988   
Tracks: 9

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Battersea-based ambient composer Robin Rimbaud, aka Scanner, takes his curious nom de guerre from his compositional tool of choice; the cellphone scanner. Although only recording and cathartic music since the early '90s, Rimbaud has already earned a reputation as a boundary pushing experimentalist, wedding scanned vocal samples with sparse electronics and other textural elements that underline the grade of strain and isolation oft associated with modern telecommunications technology. Though working more and more toward other, more than musical compositional devices, his first several releases went fleshy on the upraised convo, attracting as ofttimes the comment of postgrad pouch theorists interested in the vital implications of Rimbaud's work as the medicine critics. Although admitting to a certain voyeuristical obsession regular in his puerility, Rimbaud's began exploring it through and through medicine only late, getting a constabulary scanner from the Brixton Hunt and Saboteurs group (a sort of wargames/survivalist collective) at a surprising discount. He's since recorded a number of albums and completed remixes for Oval, Scorn, and others. Thought non as varied or complex in his approach as some of his peers in the European electronic medicine van, Rimbaud's inquisitory experimentalism and development focus has won him high congratulations among the more cerebral of the emusic adjust, resulting in a act of accredited performance and composition opportunities that get brought him in tangency with the likes of David Shea, Bill Laswell, Oval's Markus Popp, and Karlheinz Stockhausen (the latter of which Rimbaud counts among his admirers). He likewise worked on the score for the film The Garden Is Full of Metal, around recent film director Derek Jarman. In 2001 Scanner returned with the album Wave of Light by Wave of Light, using the refer Scannerfunk.





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