Cray
Water Computing
VMD02

Tracks:

1. 1strac (3:15)
2. bluzzz (5:21)
3. Nokis (5:09)
4. Bio Feds (5:17)
5. Astnbel (5:25)
6. pgs (5:48)
7. dev56 (6:23)
8. Ribotan (6:23)
9. Sipr (4:19)
10. Bpr2 (7:31)

Description:

This was originally recorded after the release of Cray's Undo album released on Bip Hop, France in 2001. Another full album sitting
rediscovered on an old hard drive laying about the house gathering dust for 8 years, Water Computing sees Cray (Ross Healy) trying to convince computers to talk, emotion from bytes.
This album takes you to a Blade Runner street setting where all humans have vanished and the machines /robotic life, nano computers have
memories of the time when humans ruled the world.

File Under - Extreme Computer Music / Avant Electronics

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Reviews:

Vital Weekly

Ross Healy, also known as Cray. His first full length album was 'Undo', and reviewed all the way back in Vital Weekly 307. Since I didn't hear much of him, but now sends me his four current label releases, among which is one from him, and its said that this is second full length. In between he worked for TV shows and commercials, designed web pages and played live concerts. 'Water computing' was already recorded eight years ago, and recently found on an old hard drive. 'File under extreme computer music/avant electronics' is what the blurb says and that is indeed what we should do. Cray may be a master of modular synthesizers, this album is one of computer music. I think! Most of the times this is all quite brutal and loud, but a piece like 'Ribotan' shows also, at times, a more calmer side to this. I have no idea what goes into the computer, but everything is heavily processed inside. Microsound is far away here. If anything I'd say Cray is the cruder brother of microsound, or perhaps the missing link between the old Mego (though never as harsh) and the more serious electronic music from the sixties. An excellent album, although some of the tracks appear a bit long for what they have to offer. But surely its great. Doesn't sound dated, if you catch my drift.

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Don Poe, EAR/Rational Staff Reviewer

I really enjoy this disc. Electronics forming rhythms - not electronica or techno, but glitches and odd computer sounds structured and formed into near-melodies and patterns resembling a beat. If you are familiar with Frans de Waard's Goem project then you can think of this as Goem with a little more sounds and less rhythmic play. If you don't know Goem - this strips out the melodic elements and big beats from Glitch Techno and leaves just the glitches. Cray is a good name for this band, the old school super computer is now generating some very interesting music as it's hard drives spin down, resistors snap and capacitors give up the ghost.