Ancient DATS#3 - Machine Room

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1.	Desire 05:57	info	buy track
2.	Bell 06:01	info	buy track
3.	Sick Juno 06:05	info	buy track
4.	Hat 06:25	info	buy track
5.	Indian 06:28	info	buy track
6.	Hard Take (Original) 06:33	info	buy track
7.	Hard Take (Cliff Lothar edit) 04:51	info	buy track
8.	Bugs 05:27	info	buy track
9.	Knees 07:28	info	buy track
10.	Cannonball 05:56	info	buy track
11.	Revcat 06:32	info	buy track
12.	Mono Poly 06:24	info	buy track
13.	Land 07:09	info	buy track
14.	The End 05:57	info	buy track

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For this third album in the Ancient DAT’s series, we stay true to the word ‘ancient’ because most of this material roughly comes from the period 1992-1994.

Some of these tracks were the first ones I did all by myself, a decision I made in 1992 after some less than optimal experiences of working with other people. I’d been in noise bands with friends which was great fun, but doing an electronic duo was less than succesful. So after this stuff was released (Under the name Modulate on the Belgian SSR label) I decided to 'go solo'.
Suddenly there were no more boundaries and no more labels either (they did not like my acid tracks), so the land was wide open. Many of those tracks ended up on on the Bunker albums 012, 013 and 020, but a lot was also never released. Until now, that is.

These tracks are all 100% pure analogue jam sessions. I did have a sampler for some sampled movie dialogues, but that was it. I also developed a method of working that I could describe as “death or glory”: a track was either finished in one day or night, or all the patterns would get erased and nothing would be saved at all.
This was for a big part inspired by one of my former bands, where we worked 4 years (!) on one track that went from EBM to industrial to new beat to end up as sort of a half assed acid track. And it only got worse with each incarnation. So I vowed never to do that again. From now on, I’d be my own personal dictator.

Where the first two Ancient DAT albums had their share of weird atmospheric tracks, this selection, once again edited and curated by mr. Cliff Lothar, is pretty much all strictly what I’d call dance music, although here and there it rubs against the limits of what is still acceptable to be called that.

Coming from a background of experimental, industrial and noise music, I had a habit of making purposefully difficult and uncomfortable tracks, and a few of them are included here. I was not interested in making what people wanted, but more in seeing how far I could go before it would become unacceptable. It’s a phase, though I partly still make music by that philosophy.

Mostly missing here is the 303, which has a reason that will be revealed with the next album..

Ruud Lekx/ Rude 66, May 2019

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