Title: Means from an End Artist: Terre Thaemlitz Release Date: 2/10/1998 Label: Mille Plateaux Duration: 64:29 UPC: 718750069429 Genre: Electronica Styles: Ambient Techno, Experimental Techno, Glitch, IDM Moods: Bitter, Brooding, Cerebral, Clinical, Complex, Confrontational, Detached, Hypnotic, Literate, Melancholy, Ominous, Somber, Sophisticated, Restrained, Trippy Total Copies: 0 Members Wishing: 1 Number of Discs/SwapaCD Credits: 1

1. Inelegant Implementations: G1. A-J
2. Inelegant Implementations: G6. A-S
3. Inelegant Implementations: G3. A-L
4. Inelegant Implementations: G2. A-O
5. Inelegant Implementations: G7. A-T
6. Inelegant Implementations: G5. A-S
7. Inelegant Implementations: G4. A-S
8. Resistance to Change: Commentary
9. Resistance to Change: Resistance
10. Resistance to Change: Resignation
11. Resistance to Change: Transformative Nostalgia
12. Still Life With Numerical Analysis
13. Means from an End
14. Means from an End: Reduction of Contents
15. Means from an End: Reintroduction of Contents I
16. Means from an End: Reintroduction: Means to a Means
17. Means from an End: Reintroduction of Contents II
18. Means from an End: End to a Means

Year Type Label Catalog # 1998 CD Mille Plateaux 694

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Thaemlitz's deepening descent into the obscure sonorities of hard disk recording is here pushed to new extremes. Compositionally, Means From an End focuses on the metaphoric reconstitution of meaning through the social field, and is equal both in scope and sonic detail to the output of freeform academicians such as Francois Bayle and Jim Horton. But as challenging as the music is -- fuzz, clicks, and thin sheets of off-putting digital synthesis constitutes much of the hour on offer here -- the music is among some of the most engaging and even, at times, touching of Thaemlitz's career (particularly the title suite, which closes out the disc). ~ Sean Cooper, All Music Guide

Name Credits Terre Thaemlitz Arranger, Main Performer, Producer, Mixing