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Squaremeter

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Squaremeter (m²) is a click ‘n cut ambient side-project of Mathis Mootz, a.k.a. Panacea.

Beginning in late 1999 with 14id1610s, the m² project took shape as a way for Mootz to explore sound realms outside the intensely structured ferocity of Panacea’s breaks-based madness, to work with sound as texture and layer in a contemporary fashion and Ant-Zen was the perfect means. “I had only one release on the label at that time and not much to do with the industrial-scene,” explains Mootz, “So Stefan Alt (owner of Ant-Zen) sent me all the releases he did and out of that I made my first m² release… he also came up with the name, so I owe him something!”

Yet the m² albums that followed on Mille Plateaux (Sinecore, 2000), Ant-Zen (Kopyright Liberation, 2000), and Hands (Parsec, 2001 and The Bitter End, 2002) instead saw Mootz exploring the worlds of microsound and glitch through the implementation of various sample sources ranging from The KLF to electrically-excited transistors and diodes the size of a few hundred nanometers (laptop, clicks & cuts, etc). But the aesthetic of m² remained one of the minimalism more often found in sound experimentalists like Carsten Nicolai and Raster-Noton, Taylor Deupree and 12k, and Goem - where the value of a sound, be it sampled or traditionally generated, came from its aural texture.

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hookahey wrote:
August 2008

No shit, Sherlock.

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x-truder wrote:
August 2008

Actually this guy is d'n'b act Panacea!

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darkvvulf wrote:
August 2008

Make more music!!

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aleke wrote:
July 2008

Один человек в квадрате.

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pensiveness wrote:
May 2008

русские всюду :) Музыка великолепная!

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CountZero_sp wrote:
May 2008

это потрясающе.

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czar04 wrote:
January 2008

это и есть один человек. фотография - коллаж.

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Goblim wrote:
August 2007

Merge with http://www.lastfm.se/music/m%C2%B2

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arctic-sunrise wrote:
August 2007

awesome, very inspiring. war f sound and frozen spark are my favourites.

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darkvvulf wrote:
February 2007

Does anyone know what the vocals on 80.00 and 90.00 (from the 14ID1610S album) are from? It was the late twentieth century. Techno pervs and cyber nazis stalked the internet. Yes Zodiac my noble friend. We had a plan, we were going to save the world. It sounds like a movie I'd want to watch.

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AsgardFlames wrote:
December 2006

Cheers

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hookahey wrote:
December 2006

Germany.

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AsgardFlames wrote:
December 2006

Anyone know what nationality Squaremeter are?

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Characi wrote:
October 2006

Aswad!

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