Huge Chrome Cylinder Box Unfolding

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Huge Chrome Cylinder Box Unfolding is an album by electronic music artist Venetian Snares. It was one of several recordings released by this artist in 2004. Along with Winter In The Belly Of A Snake and Rossz csillag alatt született, this album is one of Venetian Snares' calmest, least aggressive-sounding efforts, bringing to mind Aphex Twin's double album Drukqs. It is not free of his characteristic abrasive elements, but it does subvert them to a degree unseen on his other releases.

Venetian Snares claims the album originally had a 12.6 surround sound mix:

It's actually 12.6,,,[sic] 6 around the ceiling, 6 halfway between the ceiling and the floor, then 6 subs on the floor. So you are completely surrounded and sound can be placed virtually anywhere in the field. Say you have something start in the very top left then crash behind you to your right and explode into everything like standing inside a mushroom cloud. You get the picture. Was done at Naut Humon's Recombinant Media Labs studio in SF. Richard Devine, Otto Von Schirach and a bunch of others have also done music on the system. We all did a show around this time last year at the Paradiso in Amsterdam performing some of this 12.6 surround madness.

— Venetian Snares

This album sees Venetian Snares at the peak of his experimentation with time signatures beyond his naturally unorthodox meter of 7/4: Huge Chrome Peach, Ion Divvy, and Bent Annick are in 11/4 time; Li₂CO₃ is in 13/4 time; Destroy Glass Castles is in 10/4 time; Nineteen 1319 alternates, as its name suggests, between 19/4 and 13/4 time; and Chlorophyll has a compound time signature which effectively amounts to 17/4. Several songs feature recognizable samples from a Speak & Spell and Speak & Math.

Track listing

1. "Huge Chrome Peach" – 4:27
2. "Bonivital" – 3:49
3. "Cadmium Lung Jacket" – 3:56
4. "Vida" – 4:16
5. "Coke Ajax" – 5:14
6. "Li₂CO₃" – 4:02
7. "Ion Divvy" – 4:52
8. "Keek" – 4:12
9. "Nineteen 1319" – 4:07
10. "Destroy Glass Castles" – 7:02
11. "Chlorophyll" – 2:31
12. "Bent Annick" – 4:58
13. "Aaron" – 3:59
14. "Bezcitny" – 5:29

Trivia

• Li₂CO₃ is the chemical formula for Lithium Carbonate, a chemical compound that is used as a mood stabaliser in psychiatric treatment.

• Keek contains a sample of the famous coin sound effect from the Super Mario Bros. video game series.