Post Office records

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	The Hour Of The Hun	Diamandas Dream Kiss
	First Contact	Kerio
	Ammil	Teatime Pastorale
	Trepan Yourself	Rogue Form(extract)
	Brief Electrical Encounters
	Nest Of Jackdaws
	Iceland
POR7 Trepan Yourself dj Methodist December 2002

I've always liked the output of sonic experimenter Dave Handford - it sounds so different to the usual stuff that comes out of the electronic avant-garde scene. It's difficult to describe his style, but try thinking of hard techno music minus the beats, or a mix of a Spectrum 48K and your tumble dryer. Dj Methodist is a very strange character. He gives odd names to his compositions, such as 'The Hour of The Hun', 'Brief Electrical Encounters', and 'Teatime Pastorale'. They all contain collections of filthy beats that develop very slowly, one after the other. They're instrumental on the whole, but on some we get to hear samples of a man and a woman, reading 'word lists' in BBC accents: 'tongue...men...wish...' And so forth. It's not for everyone of course, but its more than likely to find its way into my top ten come the winter.
VIVA SPARKY FANZINE -- SPRING 2003

Latest blast of unfettered creativity from Dave Handford, Post Office Records owner and West Walian sonic one-man catalogue.It's a more difficult listen than his last two records - not necessarily more extreme, but compared to Ambiance Brut's blessed drones or Radio St.Dogmaels' 4/4 techno moments this is awkward and disjointed, the recovered meat from electronica's slaughterhouse served up without dressing or shame. Ammil appears to quite literally be the sound of a dot matrix printer, the point of which eludes me right now. For all that, however, Trepan Yourself is an enjoyably off-centre headwreck. ***
NOEL GARDNER -- BUZZ -- JANUARY 2003

His holiness, man like DJ Methodist returns with arguably his best work yet. Although ostensibly working in the field of electronic noise, there's none of the tiresome, willy-waving sonic fascism of the likes of Whitehouse, Merzbow, and Russell Haswell here. Rather, Methodist makes a more subtly worrying, occasionally out-and-out thrilling use of lo-fi cacophony. If there's a criticism it's that he doesn't develop some of his ideas far enough, but even so, this is a must for those interested in the outer limits of electronic music. 4/5 
DUNCAN BELL-- MUZIK -- FEBRUARY 2003

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