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Oleum releases

Biography of Barry Williams

Oleum also found here:

V/A - Malpractice (Birdman)

two effs cover

Laboratory Series Vol. 1 cover

 

 

Oleum
Reviews & Opinions



Synthetic Dreams
: Looking for something original on mp3.com, I've found your site. I listened to your stuff and I can say that it was great! I liked it, really! :) Your "Void" is cool! I liked it most. I don't know why, maybe because of the great atmosphere of this track... I can feel the music in "Void" and it's awesome! THNX 4 your music!

Modern Dance: Oleum, better known perhaps as Barry Williams, is a five track album, kicking off with Spilth. With the exception of the dazzling blast that initiates the piece, this is one of the gentlest and dare I say the most ambient works I have heard yet on the label. Eno’s ghost wanders freely through the aural shadows generated amongst derelict dyeworks as images fall on a prevailing wind. Cumulus Over Halkyn, again, is a beautifully produced ambient drone that is saved from monotony by an undercurrent of subtly changing ghostly harmonics - the overall effect is so relaxing, and I never thought I’d be saying that about ANYTHING on FfC! Deep Yellow Harbour is similar in structure to Cumulus in that it builds slowly and remains a constant with subtle underpinning. For any of you out there who’re getting a little anxious, the menace and darkness often found on many FfC gear, is on Fog Hollow. A rich, menacing, almost Evil Dead soundtrack with fractures in reality seeping through your speakers, dragging you screaming into the nothingness - brown pants time. Appropriately, the last track, Void, is a truly different ‘sound’ (again) for FfC. It’s more like something from Tangerine Dream on acid. A lively and energetic piece and whilst it doesn’t last 2 minutes, you know you’ve been taken somewhere, and just, only just, made it back.

Dj Stigma: I was just browsing through the UK artists and I found you, wicked stuff mate!! I kept worrying about what all these Americans were doing around mp3.com + I never had time to look at what people from my own country are doing!! I'm glad I looked now cause some of your electronica is and would be ideal for the partys down my way!! Anyway Keep this PHAT shit up! And I'll cya around.

HOTH(e):: this is a beautiful piece [Spilth]

Aquarius Records: This is probably the most laid back record on Fflint, but that's not to say it isn't still intense and incessant. Tranquil soundscapes (processed field recordings made in North East Wales) are mixed with pulsing synths, bells and chimes, and warm drones, making for a soothing and dark and an amazingly beautiful record.

Manuel Guzmán: I´m enjoying your music so far........I hope you will never stop making such a great art.

Phrygia: Watch as the cyclic tundra plays out its natural role of cleanse, fold, manipulate. 0leum, the man with the scratched face, seems to penetrate the realm of hypnosis, a feat regarded as being of the utmost importance to us here in the Land of Phrygia Subliminal Comandeering and Impassé Recognition Control Team. What for, you might implore? Implore you might, but unless you are completely dense and full of chalk, you would notice that we used the word "subliminal". And not even in a subliminal sense. Yuk yuk. But, what I'm getting at is we have very strong emotions that are easily triggered by the audio source we encounter, whether we know it or not, we are constantly driven by the message and meaning in music to find out more about ourselves. Since you are there, and we are here, our relationship is one that is rather impersonal, yet we are having discussions without you having any REAL input. Relating an experience that I or we here in the Land of Phrygia have encountered while listening to Brian Eno, Robert Fripp, and now 0leum is of such a personal nature that it can't quite be done. The feeble attempt at me explaining what happens to your psyche when you experience this track of over-under strata chords will pale in comparison to what you actually experience. Get all this guy's music before he disappears with the other species. [Cumulus Over Halkyn]

Byte Me: Spilth is way cool!

Blessed is the Noise - New Gideon Leeches album
FfC does Downloads!
Nocturne Convolute - New Pendro album
Verhexen - A Malpractice Trailer
Black 'Devilhead' T-Shirt
New Postage Options
Malpractice
- FfC Compilation on BIRDMAN Records
BLD's Mystifying Oracle Updated
Tar Weasels - New BLD album
New e-mail address

V/A - two effs Pendro - The Oxide Heresies Cavendish Sanguine - Transmutation
BLD - Drain Salmon Forgery BLD - the Lunge-howler e.p. Oleum - Excelsior
Pendro - Infusorium BLD - Contraception of the  Gods BLD - Missionary District
Cavendish Sanguine - Vitriol Crusts Pendro - Peninsula Cousin Silas - Lilliput
BLD - Without Chemicals He Points V/A - two-eff-m-you Cavendish Sanguine - Truculence
V/A - Unholy Trinity The Gideon Leeches - The Freezing Point of Sound Cousin Silas - Portraits & Peelings
Cavendish Sanguine - Strange Alloys, Rare Earths Pendro - Portals BLD - Tar Weasels
Pendro - Nocturne Convolute The Gideon Leeches - Blessed is the Noise