Hafler Trio

Hafler Trio (or H30, for short) is a project of Andrew McKenzie, who explores various sonic phenomena through his records. Another issue that the project explores is a blurred line between the fact and the faction and various ways of mass manipulation – initially the band claimed that Dr. Edward Moolenbeek was its founder, but he turned out to be a fictitious person. Initially, Hafler Trio included Moolenbeek, McKenzie and Chris Watson from Cabaret Voltaire, but eventually McKenzie became a center of the project.
Hafler Trio debuted in 1984 with “Bang! An Open Letter”, which was supposed to demonstrate that the band was a part of ROBOL, a research organization and worked on issues related to perception with Dr. Robert Spirgeon (all of which, of course, were also fictional).
All Music Guide pointed out that “Bang!” contains different types of material, including harsh ambient music, which H30 would explore in depth later, as well as looped and layered news and radio broadcasts. AMG concluded that “The album’s overall effect is a spectrum of recognition, from overt to subliminal, and the relative brevity of the tracks makes for an overall disorientation, requiring more active listening than the group’s later works.”
I bought this because this is the first project Chris Watson was engaged into after leaving Cabaret Voltaire. It is on the border where music ceases to exist in its original form. There is no melody just sound collages that sometimes have a rhythmic pattern because they are being constantly repeated. I would categorize this as "not quite music but not quite not music"
Latter day singles Wolf Sheep Cabbage - Episode 1 from 2004, Right Here Where You Are Sitting Now from 1996, are ambient, drone, cloudscape sound textures. I have ripped these off vinyl but it is perfect cd music. When put on a repeat it works better, because one listen is not enough.