ultra red

Provocatively, ULTRA RED argues for a shift away from electronica's fascination with architecture toward the exigenies of housing.Stemming from ULTRA RED's collaboration with the Union de Vecinos, all the tracks take as their sole sound sources those digital audio recordings made in the projects.These recordings were then processed, edited and composed by ULTRA RED members Marco 'Red Leader' Larsen and Dont Rhine. The music itself ranges in approach from manipulated soundscapes, electroacoustic bricolage, dubby low-end work outs and electronic pop. The CD closes with the ten minute 'Architecture versus Housing', featuring recordings from the infamous 24 July 99 occupation of the projects when ULTRA-RED joined with the Union de Vecinos in a pirate broadcast while guerilla video and slide projections by the Union and visual artist Valerie Tevere covered the walls of the condemned housing. STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENTS reveals a ground-breaking strategy in deploying modern electro-acoustic and experimental electronic pop for purposes that are truly radical, further establishing ULTRA-RED on the cutting edge of a new musical-political practice.