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Loic Blairon - x\0
CD - w.m.o/rLoic Blairon proposes a postulate. He listens and thinks he has no ideas to make music, but that people, through listening, can hold reality. Loic Blairon, in a way, says no to music - and it could not be otherwise, with a "work" based only on scattered tolls every minute. This "no" - finally - precisely defines the unilateral relationship that the "author" seeks to stabilize within and through ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
abstract . experimental . microsound
v4w.enko - snd
mini-CDr - Electroton"Snd" is a sound project by v4w.enko, the moniker of the Ukrainian researcher whose real name is Evgen Vaschenko, a multifaceted artist involved with electronic sounds, video streams, and algorithm manipulation. Electroton emphasizes that a sequence of instructions can trigger a simple process, a set ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
abstract . electronica . experimental . noise
AAVV - Test Tone Anthology
3CD - MedamaTextures, rhythms and audio layers mix in this work, following the many forms of an experimental and abstract electronica, in the first of the three volumes of this series of "test tones". It's an anthology that draws inspiration from the music scene of the SuperDeluxe, in Tokyo, a club that represents the more ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
abstract . audio art . drone . experimental . microsound
Frank Rothkamm - Ghost Of New York
CD - RothkammusicThe first release of the planned series of three CDs and a DVD, "Tetralogy" by Frank Rothkamm starts with "Ghost Of New York", a spectral and detailed study of metropolitan poltergeist, a work in progress that since the beginning appears inspired by strong symbolic references, cryptic entities and energy ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
abstract . acoustic/digital . electronica
Milosh - III
CD -!K7Gentle melodies and indietronic patterns are veined with a very insistent downtempo melancholy and crystal clear sounds in this finely modulated work by Milosh, a Canadian classical and jazz composer. This is his third release, emblematic in its sensitive junctions, embedded in a tenuous electronic music, ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
abstract . ambient . experimental . noise . soundscapes
An Antology Of Chinese Experimental Music
4CD - SubrosaEditor Li Ching Sung and Guy Marc Hinant have come together to produce this anthology of Chinese experimental music, which includes 48 different artists whose works are divided across four engaging CDs. Moving beyond the names that are already internationally known (the same Li Ching-sung - aka ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
abstract . audio art . experimental . glitch'n'cuts
EVOL - Punani Rubberist
CD" - Evol/Entr'acteThe fifth work in the 'EVOL's Punani' series, this is a 300-copy limited edition, sealed in stylized silver-transparent envelopes, including a CD and a booklet in the shape of a leaflet, along with individual black and white photo cards. The free form sound of the first track is "cut" and extremely inconstant, ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Heribert Friedl - Recherche
CD - NonvisualobjectsThe hackbrett - or cimbalom - is a chordophone, trapezoidal in shape, with 90 to 125 metal strings. The bass strings are arranged in groups of 3 which are tuned in unison and are copper over-spun. The strings are stretched in an order that allows different groups to overtop the others on each side ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
abstract . audio art . glitch'n'cuts
AAVV - Feeding The Transmitter
CD -amp bit"Feeding The Transmitter" collects artists with backgrounds in ambient, electronic and glitch who share an interest in contemporary and experimental attitudes. The work is focused on very unusual rhythmic structures and click-n-bleep textures, often "stuffed" with samples and field recordings. Michael Santos, ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
abstract . ambient . drone . electronica . soundscapes
Dj Olive - Triage
CD - Room 40A long time has passed since some non-mainstream scenes started talking about 'illbient', a word coined - in fact - by DJ Olive that better defined and promoted, during the early 90s, the new production trends in ambient music. Very rarefied sound passages, lying somewhere between hip hop ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
abstract . audio art . experimental . microsound . minimal
Richard Garet - L'Avenir
CD - Winds MeasureAfter opening the stylish white rectangular cardboard box, reading a subtle quotation - in English - from the philosopher Jacques Derrida about the difference - in his opinion - between 'the future' and 'l'avenir', there are many puzzling minutes of almost silence. Only by raising the volume of our sound ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
abstract . experimental . microsound . minimal
Shinkei & Fourm - Hidamari / Metrics
Cdr 3" - White Line EditionsA collaborative project; the result of similar intentions and musical strategies. Fourm and Shinkei both submit respective compositions to this work - two individual tracks of just over ten minutes, which are published on a mini-cdr, with an elegant artwork design in translucent paper and printed ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Goh Lee Kwang - Draw Sound
Cd 3" - Herbal InternationalIn a very atypical manner, this work magnifies a euro cent to the size of a CD 3”, before attaching it to a sophisticated booklet of nervous pencil sketches by the same author. There have been as many as 98 combinations of launches of the above mention coin, a fact reflected in the 98 micro-tracks on this ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
abstract . electronica . funk
Daniel Mercellus Givens - Egress
CD - AestheticsSuspended between dub and restless electronica, with flashes of jazz and spoken word, this new album by Daniel Mercellus Givens dispenses a handful of groove experiments following a 'black' and postmodern rhythmic tradition. Destructured sounds, full of cuts, jumps and narrative hyperboles ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
abstract . deep . electronic dance . minimal techno
Various Artists/ Klang Elektronik - Diamanten Und Raketen II
CD - Klang ElektronikThis is a selection made by Alter Ego's Roman Flugel based on the Klang Elektronik catalogue. The album consists of tracks which are not mixed, but often almost ‘juxtaposed’ in the search for a continuum – perhaps a questionable trick in terms of intrinsic consistency. All the productions included ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
abstract . acoustic/digital . ambient . experimental . glitch'n'cuts
He Can Jog - Middlemarch
CD - AudiobulbWith the anagrammatized moniker 'He Can Jog', sound artist Erik Schoster pays tribute to John Cage, master and seminal experimenter. Cage remains an essential point of reference, especially for those who still wonder about the complex compositional structures in contemporary music. It's not by chance, ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Men In Speedos - At A Kalamazoo Near You
CD - Red LabelRed Records is a label that has been based in Belfast since 1998. It is characterized by eclectic music expression, and was founded by Gawain Morrison and Shane McCourt - the embryonic nucleus of Men In Speedos – who where later joined by Derek Jones. Twinkle Fingers, Uberbeard and Chooch (their ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
abstract . audio art . experimental . field recordings
Brandon LaBelle - Dirty Ear
CD - Errant BodiesField recordings, very atypical sounds and effects, envelopes unraveled in a series of documentary micro-narrations, carefully divided into different settings and limited spaces. The nine "Dirty Ear" tracks can be seen as a hypothetical prototype of studies on mobility and broadcasting, harking back to ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Martin Neukom - Studie 18
DVD - DomizilIn "Studie 18", a work by Martin Neukom, series of sounds are constructed in a regular pattern through space and parametric sound space. There are simple rules that generate the various pitches, frequency spectra, time and location of individual sounds. Although simple, these rules allow structure to emerge ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
abstract . audio art . drone . experimental . laptop . microsound
Machinefabriek - Mort Aux Vaches
CD - Mort Aux VachesVery dilated and ethereal atmospheres, micro-sonorities, "urgent" improvisations and thorny textures. Then, melodic snippets, drones, harsh and distorted sequences. Rutger Zuydervelt, aka Machinefabriek (a moniker that would mislead if associated with industrial attitudes) structures three long suites in this ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
abstract . acoustic/digital . audio art . experimental . free form . noise
Erratum #4. Sound Review. Noise + Art + Poetry
3 CD - ErratumAn anthological release, yet still very interesting, “Erratum # 4. Sound Review. Noise + Art + Poetry” was edited by the homonymous transalpine magazine and was compiled by Joachim Montessuis. This three-disc compilation brings together a consistent set of abstract and experimental sequences, which ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
abstract . audio art . experimental . industrial . noise
COH aka Ivan Pavlov + Cosey Fanni Tutti - COH Plays Cosey
CD - Raster-NotonIt remains surprising to recognize in this album booklet Christine Carol Newby, aka Cosey Fanni Tutti, in the clothes of a very stiff contemporary English gentlewoman, being embraced by the 'youngster' Ivan Pavlov. Although it seems ages since Throbbling Gristle and those vehement sessions of post-punk ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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@C - Up, Down, Charm, Strange, Top, Bottom
CD - CronicaThis atypical album is divided into four tracks of unusual and disparate lengths - the first lasts more than twenty minutes, the second and third are less than two minutes long, and the last stretches out to more than forty minutes. 'Up, Down, Charm, Strange, Top, Bottom' by Miguel Carvalhais and Pedro ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Yuta Segawa - Motiondecomposition
CD - Cnc RecordGuitar improvisations, sensitive and cyclical, which were recorded during a special event at the Sendai's "Dotmov Festival", and subsequently edited. The flow is a very contemporary harmony of chips and used interfaces: common musical instruments as flutes, horns, and harps at madrigal time. It is really not the ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Fenin - Been Through
CD - ShitkatapultSurround dub atmospheres, "retrofuturistic" influences (especially noticeable in "Breakin", mimicking the typical style of "Popcorn" seminal proto-electronic hit) articulated in dense grooves. Techno sequences hybridized with reggae-roots tradition, linking the classic "toasting" with the new rhythmic modernity ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
abstract . deep . electronica . glitch'n'cuts . house
Various Artists - Now
CD - UnderscanThis is an interesting compilation by Underscan Recordings, a Berlinese label founded by the productive Ralph Pytlik and Markward Wagner, and it's the first release of the 'Now' series that connects a truly wide soundscape, with very fuzzy experiments spanning the different subgenres which converge towards ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
abstract . deep . drone . experimental
Scorn - Stealth
CD - Ad NoiseamGloomy bases, vibrant drones and sharp beats, faithful to his own electronic imprinting, Mike Harris, five years after his latest studio album, is back with the Scorn moniker, calibrating obscure downtempo rhythms, oppressive and industrial sounds which deeply remodel the cornerstones of dub. Purged from ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
abstract . acoustic . experimental . free form
Kapital Band 1 - Playing By Numbers
CD - MoszBehind the moniker Kapital Band 1 there's a duo formed by Martin Brandlmayr and Nicholas Bussman (also known as 'The Golden Boys' and 'Hair'), two musician very skilled in iterating sensitive sounds, dilating patterns and organizing improvisations. Their abstractions chase the possibilities inspired by ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Giuseppe Ielasi - August
CD - 12KHeartwarming drones, melancholic suspensions and glitch'n'cuts sequences, rarefied and melodic threads, infused with iterated atmospheres in synthetic chords and radio frequencies obtained by modulating short waves, using a piano, a Hammond organ and a resophonic guitar. Ielasi seems to leave ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
abstract . drone . experimental . free form . glitch'n'cuts
@C & Vitor Joaquim - De-Tour
CD - FeldThe result of the collaboration of Miguel Carvalhais, Pedro Tudela and Vitor Joaquim, three extreme digital experimenters, the ideal setup for creative improvisations, the different experiences of this ensemble, who toured Germany in 2005, are the foundations from where new montages and ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
abstract . deep . electronica
Quio - Phiu
CD - AGF ProducktionsThose new urban sounds, which are more and more imbued with digital moods, come together perfectly in this new album by the electronica producer AGF and mc Quio. Their music encompasses many genres, from underground to mainstream, between hip hop, dub and garage. They're multifaceted ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
abstract . electronica . experimental . minimal
Frank Bretschneider - Rhythm
CD - Raster NotonRhythm is always essential in its intrinsic conception. It's what you add to it (or don't) that makes the difference, and this is made all the more true these days, especially in dance music, by many low-quality productions with no original ideas. It's not enough to take out every element and reduce the ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
abstract . electronica . experimental . funk
Clause Four - Blue On Blue
CD - Dc RecordingsSkillfully diluted sequences between dub, soul, rhythm'n'blues and hip-hop, with vintage influences in a mix of 8-bit electronics, lovely in its futurist retro-funk that marries groove with playful cyber suggestions. Very simple but vivid articulations, minimal and sensitive, thanks especially to Nancy ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
abstract . ambient . electronica . minimal . techno
Staatsballet Berlin presents: Shut Up And Dance! Updated
CD - Ostgut Ton/KompaktNo, they aren't 'Shut Up And Dance', the famous combo from London: they're German. The Berghain Club commissioned to five producers five musical pieces for five choreographies for five different dancers of the Berlin Staasballet. Together with the label Ostgut Ton, distributed by Kompakt, ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Amiina - Kurr
CD - Ever/AudioglobeEnthralling sequences by the Amiina in 'Kurr', the debut album of an Icelandic quartet of female musicians who artfully compose dream-like and melodic textures, simple but fascinating, rarefied and shy, as is, to us, the spirit of those who live in those intriguing Nordic lands (which have already given ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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mini-CDr - Electroton
3CD - Medama
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4CD - Subrosa
CD" - Evol/Entr'acte
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