Ball Of Confusion

Unfinishe, the self-made, self-produced, self-mutating opus of Design A Wave is enough to send me tumbling over the edge.

It's all over the place. Just when you get a little bit comfortable, just when you think you've nailed down where this one-man electrorchestra is coming from, it's off on another tangent, be it beat driven noise, John Carpenter inspired soundtrack, or one-man-and-his-4 track-in-a-shed thrashes / ambles.

These are the facts, as my troubled mind sees them:

- 26 tracks of mystery
- over 62 minutes in length
- from 6 minute long movements to 60 second ideas
- apparently spanning 6 years of output from 1999 to 2005

Stats-tastic.

As the briefest possible sampler, we have Track 03 (the tale of the evil-animated-teacher from The Wall, waking up after a night on the sauce, before going down the roller disco, and eventually busting some truly massive moves), and Track 26 (pre-free-jazz played by poorly-designed-yet-nonetheless-charming-robots in the aforementioned shed, or the accompanying theme to the long forgotten secret ‘Jazz Club’ level from Double Dragon), but there is more, so much more.

You can get Unfinishe from the man himself at his Myspace, for the princely sum of £3.50. Truly, for an hour of constant yet entertaining self doubt, you won't find a better bargain. Magic.

Design A Wave - 03

Design A Wave - 26