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Technology of sleep
Eso Steel represent one increasingly divergent attitude in the manipulation of environmental and contact microphone recordings. On the one hand, Eso Steel (New Zealander Richard Francis, now living in Japan) recontextualises his recordings through a poetic and almost intuitive sensibility; Eso Steel provide strickingly similar and androitly composed albums of electrical buzzings and fizzing drones, alongside the crisp crackles of a contact microphone amplifying tiny textural striations. Eso Stee…