Bryan Holmes is a Chilean composer living in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and "Explotacion", a co-release with Menthe de Chat netlabel, is a conceptual recording based on the use of sounds recorded through relatively low quality means. Sounds captured from webcam microphones, handheld videocameras and other sources are altered, stretched and manipulated to make the best of these otherwise sub par quality recordings, the kind of incidental audio that accompanies the kodak moments of life.
The results are somewhat stunning, the dense layers and sharpened sounds resemble the sensation of the process of mentally recalling memories, and these captured fragments of time are artfully played and replayed over themselves.
As a bonus to the Timetheory version of "Explotacion", remixes have been added by Jon 7, Simple Painter and Andreas Niegl (Given Willingly).