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The album's cover provides a description of its content:
"As an exercise in sample manipulation, DWM draws exclusively from source audio generated by swinging a cheap microphone in front of a misfiring heating unit, itself congested with the fibrous dust of advanced decrepitude and exhuming a near death-rattle from its fractured internal respiratory[sic] systems."
SleepResearch Facility made a three-minute recording of the Dimplex Tango2 heater[1] and created DWM and DWM Re:Heat from the clip, "using only about three or four very powerful pieces of software to mutate and mix/layer the sound".[2] The original recording of the Tango2 heater is included as a hidden track at the end of the album. A photo[3] of the inside of the heater was also made available on the Audio Project Archive page of the official website.
The promotional text for the album, written by Manifold Records, encourages the listener to imagine being shrunk to microscopic size and "trekking through some enormous, dying mechanical landscape, the sounds of world-sized storms swirling all around you."[4]
The original 2004 release was a limited edition run of 1,000 copies.[2]
Track listing
Track
Name
Duration
1
"2.1"
11:54
2
"2.2"
6:40
3
"2.3"
13:34
4
"2.4"
6:06
5
"2.5"
9:00
6
"2.6"
8:40
7
"2.7"
8:09
Hidden track (*)
3:12
(*) Follows "2.7" after 6:30 of silence
The following text is printed on the back of the CD box: "untitled x 7 + 1 hidden = sum", indicating that the seven main tracks have no official titles. However, on the back of the CD cover, the numbers "2.1" to "2.7" are printed, together with the duration of each corresponding track in minutes and seconds. This suggests that "2.1" to "2.7" are potential titles for the seven tracks. The use of the digit 2 at the beginning of each title may well be a reference to the fact that DWM is the second album by SleepResearch Facility.
Miscellaneous CD text
The following phrases are printed either on the inside of the CD tray, or in the CD booklet:
[working with finite sound sources reinforces concepts of liberation through limitation]
[passage through the digital domain spawns interesting new paradigms]
Ambient musician Steve Roach gave DWM a favorable review, calling the album "worthy of endless loop playback"[6]. The album was also highly praised by Aural Pressure, a website specializing in dark ambient, experimental, industrial, rhythmic noise, power electronics, and neoclassical music.[7]
In 2005, some of the album was broadcast on Dutch Radio 4FM, which was later known as NPS Studio 6, and is currently known as NPO Soul & Jazz.
Free audio
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The Audio Project Archive page of the official website links to the following relevant MP3 files:
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