Aleksi Nuuja: "konehuora2.wav" (68KB)
Review: This first exhibited bit in this series by Aleksi Nuuja is probably among the first I have reviewed so far of that would fit neatly into the Nuubit criteria. That is, the sample source does not seem to be at all recognizable. These are the kind of bits I personally enjoy the most. With regards to this specific bit, is composed in two-sections. This resembles the structural method also employed by Alan Dunn. It must be the Westerner's repressed Classical dualism leaking through. At any rate, "konehuora2" does not sound too kone-like but is quite nicely put together. On the other hand, when my Winamp accidentally loops the bit in playback mode, the bit becomes a very catchy beat. I am not sure how intentional that was. It stands alone both as a bit and as a beat..quite a feat! (Jeremy)

Aleksi Nuuja: "konehuora4.wav" (87KB)
Review: Bit #4 in Aleksi's series is even more beat-friendly than #2. I think this has to do with the attack point on the 2nd half of this beat is much more present and percussive than before. This bit yearns to be a beat. There is definitely a cadential (im)pulse and resolution here which very much makes this bit a cross-over composition. However, with serious contemplation, one can rest assured that this beatlet can be a discrete enough bit just in the same way that a "cone" can also be a "kone". I am not sure what the difference between a "cone" and a "kone" is but I am sure the answer is highly subjective rather than objective. (Jeremy)
I hope I don't introduce too much danger of a literalist interpretation when I note that "kone" = "machine" in Finnish. And, with "huora" equalling "whore", we have a machine-whore series. Who is the whore in this assemblage? The machine or the user? Hooker or hooked? (Janne)

Aleksi Nuuja: "konehuora5.wav" (139KB)
Review: Bit #5 is perhaps the most bitlike of Aleksi's koneheaded bunch. The only tonal variation one here seems to be in the inharmonic range (or my ears are playing tricks and treats on me)...Therefore, it does not seem to be assembled from smaller bitlets. On the contrary, it is one hard-cropped tonelet. I can also hear some mild timbral variation but I am not sure if that has to do with the harmonic overtones or not. It sounds a bit a "rusty", in a good way, that is - not like a Datsun..more like a Bitsun. (Jeremy)

Jeremy Turner & Janne Vanhanen 2004