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ambient . electronica . experimental . noise

Martin Neukom - Studien 5-7

CD - Domizil
S basic elements of each auditory event: the oscillations. The feedback and non-linear filters, frequency distortion, granular synthesis work, crackle and various kinds of noise, combine to generate a continuous flow that is both engaging and fascinating: it could work as an ideal soundtrack for ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 09:21 AM - Jan 12/2012
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drone . experimental . impro . noise

Merzbow & Balázs Pándi - Ducks: Live In NYC

CD - Ohm Resistance,
Merzbow, AKA Masami Akita, needs no introduction. This pioneer of "noise" is well-known in the international experimental scenes for his sophisticated yet raw, “free jazz” attitude. Balázs Pándi is also quite well-known in the more extreme avant-garde "enclaves" ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:16 PM - Oct 3/2011
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ambient . audio art . drone . noise

Philippe Petit - Scores Henry: The Iron Man

CD - Aagoo
Inserted in our player, this CD immediately plays anxious sounds - dreamy and visionary - reminiscent of the original soundtrack of the movie mentioned in the cover artwork - "Eraserhead" - the first feature film by David Lynch, a cult director who is also often ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:30 AM - Jun 16/2011
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audio art . experimental . noise

AAVV - An Anthology of Noise & Electronic Music, Vol. 6

Mp3 - Sub Rosa
The sixth and penultimate episode of the Subrosa anthology dedicated to noise and electronic music (they are not in chronological order - we remind you) that encompasses the years 1957 to 2010 is maybe too large a period in the history of music, especially when considered in relation to the huge ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 05:00 AM - Nov 18/2010
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audio art . experimental . noise

Gert-Jan Prins - Cavity: The Capacitive Version

10" - Onomatopee
A transparent 10-inch record, rarefied digitalisms and several texts weaving more suggestions and trajectories (Freek Lomme, Daniela Cascella and Willem van Weelden). A stylized 32-page color insert, a report of geometric installations and of the ultra-vivid relationship between environments, human beings and the resulting sounds. Gert-Jan Prins, a seminal ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 05:00 AM - Aug 24/2010
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abstract . electronica . experimental . noise

AAVV - Test Tone Anthology

3CD - Medama
Textures, 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 ]

Posted at 05:12 AM - Jul 29/2010
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electronica . industrial . noise . techno

Sturqen - Piranha

CD - Kvitnu
Intricate rhythmic sequences, hovering techno-trance fascinations and noise attitudes are contaminated with an energetic and chaosmotic mood in "Piranha", the latest release by Sturqen. The recording is imbued with a dark, electronic feel, heavy with collisions that could be fitted to industrial dance ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 11:45 AM - Feb 22/2010
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audio art . experimental . noise

Yellow Swans - Mort Aux Vaches

CD - Staalplaat
Once again Staalplaat sets a new milestone with the artwork accompanying their historic Mort Aux Vaches series. A very playful yellow hardback with embossed inserts, complete with the silhouette of a cute duckling and a smiling peasant girl is the companion of scratchy industrial sounds. The record is a ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 03:20 AM - Jan 23/2010
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abstract . ambient . experimental . noise . soundscapes

An Antology Of Chinese Experimental Music

4CD - Subrosa
Editor 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 ]

Posted at 05:53 AM - Dec 31/2009
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ambient . audio art . noise

AAVV - Noise Vs Subversive Computing

USB flash drive - Computationally Infeasible Records
Noise Vs Subversive Computing' is a collaborative project that concerns sound suggestions relating to the realm of more experimental ambient-noise, and is both sophisticated and imaginative. There are not only electronic musicians joining this effort but also radical activists, computer hackers and ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 10:34 AM - Dec 14/2009
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audio art . drone . experimental . noise

Yutaka Makino - Black

CD - Strukto
This is not the first project with a black artwork. Here, however, black abounds. In addition to the outer carton which presents the word 'Black' in an impeccably neutral relief, there's also the black inlay card of the CD trailer underneath the transparent plastic trailer, the black booklet, and the black CD ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 01:23 AM - Dec 11/2009
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drone . experimental . free form . noise

Audrey Chen + Robert Van Heumen - Abattoir

CD - Evil Rabbit
After an disquieting start, modulating on shrill guttural vocalizations and innervated with noisy and improvisational acts, Robert van Heumen intervenes on laptops and controller. He generates instrumental arrangements, selected by highly noisy drones, with supplemental clicks, hums, sudden ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 05:54 AM - Dec 2/2009
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audio art . experimental . glitch'n'cuts . laptop . noise

Pato - clip_clap_crisis

CD - Free Software Series
In clip_clap_crisis Rubén Patiño, aka Pato realizes an extreme audio-abuse. He's a sound-designer from Barcelona, a city that he says should be placed – in terms of its atmospheres - between Orwellian settings in '1984' and fake Disneyland ones. His attitude to sound is well-rooted in the underground ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 09:29 PM - May 26/2009
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audio art . drone . experimental . noise

Zeitkratzer & Carsten Nicolai - Electronics

CD - ZeitKratzer
This is the first of a series of three releases on Zeitkratzer Records, titled 'Electronics' which will soon be printed in a 3CD box set format. Here, Carsten Nicolai (aka Alva Noto) together with the Zeitkratzer ensemble, directed by Reinhold Friedl, restate many of their typical musical strategies, experienced ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 11:26 AM - Apr 1/2009
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audio art . experimental . free form . noise

" "[sic] Tim Goldie - "Abjector"[sic]

2CD - Hibari
Harsh digital sounds intertwine with improvisations structured as a percussive matrix. With audio-abuse, distortions and an extreme use of the human voice, Tim Goldie severely tests both the taste and analytical skills of those less accustomed to radical electronic and experimental music. The double ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 10:15 PM - Mar 4/2009
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experimental . noise

Tarek Atoui - Mort Aux Vaches

CD - Staalplaat
Spacey electronic textures evolve into oblique sound cuts, incorporating truncated textual elements. The new Mort Aux Vaches album by Tarek Atouri isn’t comfortable on first listening, with its jumpy passages and tangled audio-noise collages assembled from many sources and destructured ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:24 AM - Jan 5/2009
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abstract . acoustic/digital . audio art . experimental . free form . noise

Erratum #4. Sound Review. Noise + Art + Poetry

3 CD - Erratum
An 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 ]

Posted at 09:11 AM - Aug 27/2008
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abstract . audio art . experimental . industrial . noise

COH aka Ivan Pavlov + Cosey Fanni Tutti - COH Plays Cosey

CD - Raster-Noton
It 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 ]

Posted at 05:32 PM - Aug 5/2008
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audio art . drone . experimental . noise

Helmut Schafer & Zbigniew Karkowski - Eminent Risk Factor

CD - Alku
Started more than ten years ago, the collaboration between Helmut Schafer and Zbigniew Karkowski yielded various performances and musical projects and ended in 2007 with the death of Schafer. Now, after one year since the sad event and in order to honour the figure and work of the experimenter, the ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 05:08 PM - Jun 28/2008
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audio art . experimental . free form . noise

Davor Mikan - Täushung

CD - Cronica Electronica
Graphic tools and granular synthesis: this is Davor Mikan's compositional horizon, with twisted, surly and abstract radical sonorities, but once more modulated to construct a narrative with strong emotional characteristics. This seems to be the result of the arrangements and their complicated structures, ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 08:33 PM - Jun 13/2008
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audio art . electronica . experimental . noise

Various Artists - An Anthology of Noise & Electronic Music Vol. 5

2CD - Sub Rosa
Even if the euphoric nomadic and post-structuralist philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari inspire the Sub Rosa label, it is still keen on anthologies like this fifth one, dedicated to noise and electronica. This is only to underscore that it is not possible nowadays to publish such a work, only relating to music and ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 07:03 PM - Jun 3/2008
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audio art . experimental . noise

Tim Blechmann - "re-reading"

CD - Free Software Series
The role of free software in the contemporary struggle for freedom is essential as well as producing content and media with sharing as the primary goal. Using only free software to produce and compose experimental music is indeed a bold statement that has been embraced by this Berlin based label run by ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 06:20 PM - Jan 24/2008
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experimental . industrial . noise

Merzbow - Metamorphism

CD - Very Friendly
Merzbow's huge discography grows even more. He's an exceptionally prolific experimenter, emotional in his approach to sound, compressed in a continuum of dissonant, metallic and chaotic frequencies. Its compositions are, in a way, full of passion in their excess of aggressiveness and decibels shot out ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 09:00 AM - Sep 5/2007
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experimental . field recordings . industrial . noise

KK Null - Fertile

CD - Touch/Family Affair
This is the first solo album for Kazuyuki Kishino, who used to release his works under the same moniker with Chris Watson and z'ev in 2005. Other albums are already on their way to be released for the American labels Blossoming Noise and Important, and for the Russian Electroclub. 'Fertile' is a ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 08:03 AM - Jun 13/2007
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acoustic/digital . ambient . experimental . noise

Hecq - Hecq.0000

2CD - Hymen
Hymen Records, a sublabel of the seminal Ant-Zen, has again released a record by Hecq (also known as Benny Boysen), a mature artist who composed four albums in just five years, after taking a break in 2006. It's perhaps the best work by this artist, who now succeeds in collimating abstract and IDM ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 01:05 PM - Jun 6/2007
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audio art . experimental . noise

Various Artists - Less-Lethal, vol.1

CD - Alku
This interesting projects of the Alku label has the layout and standard graphics of U.S. Army internal memos. It collects the contributions of many sound artists and its goal, starting from the included essay of the German scholar Paul Paulun, is to investigate the field (both practically and ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:11 PM - May 24/2007
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abstract . electronica . experimental . glitch'n'cuts . noise

Hecker - Recordings for Rephlex

CD - Rephlex/Goodfellas
Another Rephlex based audio 'abuse', under the Wilson Claridge direction, in the very label spirit that alternates releases related to the most radical dance areas or planned as plain experimental, just extreme. This Hecker's 'Recordings for Rephlex' belongs to the latter, and the author (released in ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 11:45 AM - Mar 19/2007
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audio art . experimental . impro . noise

Mattin - Proletarian Of Noise

CD - Hibari
"How can you believe everything they tell you?", this is the first text line after the beats, tapped on the table, or a keyboard or whatever in 'Computer Music/Post Fordism', the 'Proletarian Of Noise' intro. This is the last project by Mattin, a controversial experimenter and activist from Bilbao, yet happily ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:50 PM - Feb 22/2007
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ambient . deep . drone . experimental . noise

Alvars Orkester - Interference

CD - Ash International
Experimental electronic forms, drones and extreme analogical permutations, between noise and industrial culture (Test Dept, Throbbing Gristle, SPK and Z'ev, among the stated influences) mix together for Jan Svensson and Joachim Nordwall (the real names between ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 06:24 PM - Mar 8/2006
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