Labradford
Prazision LP

When you are floating in nothingness, you must embrace the suspension to avoid imploding. A music that is not music cannot be listened to, a sound that is not sound cannot be heard.

"Prazision" is sensory acuity expressed by administering sparse guitar notes sent into loops and very slow electronic samples. Mark Nelson's faint voice is submerged by an intangible barrage of synths, the rhythm is nonexistent: the early Labradford is still a duo lacking pulsating basses.

There is no musical classification to label this work of 1993 (and reissued in 2007) - as indeed it is difficult to associate a specific genre with any work that will influence hundreds of groups to follow. Instead, various types of sounds meet to merge into a formless hybrid with a perpetual pace. I could say ambient, I could hint at noise, I might venture a nod to shoegaze, I would sneak in a good dose of industrial.

But a music that is not music cannot be listened to, a sound that is not sound cannot be heard. "Prazision is sensory acuity" ... And so on, entering into a loop.