Jacob Kirkegaard offers a concept CD of sorts with Labyrinthitis (TOUCH TONE 35). Inside the crisp card wallet cover lurks booklet with dense explanatory notes regarding the workings of the human inner ear, and the symptoms of the disorder which has given the CD its name. From here it’s but a short step to...
Zucanikan, ‘Penny Dance Test’ From The Stumbling Block, UK PICKLED EGG EGG73 CD (2008) Hearts of Palm, ‘Lotus Motion’ From Trance Nipple Manifestation, USA NO LABEL CDR (2008) Anthony Pateras / Robin Fox, ‘Whipped Silk’ From End of Daze, AUSTRIA EDITIONS MEGO DEMEGO 006 CD (2008) dsic, ‘Close Your Eyes (and you will burst...
Guitarist Seth Josel whips out his ‘axe’ to perform a number of 20th-century modern compositions on The Stroke That Kills (NEW WORLD RECORDS 80661-2), making sparing use of the delay unit and occasional overdubs to help strengthen the overall attack of his sound. While the album gets off to a slow start with Eve...
Three electronic ‘tolchoks’ arrived from Russia’s excellent Monochrome Vision label, all released last year in their customary black-and-white covers. From Bardoseneticcube we have the hour-long Noosphere (MV24), a piece deriving from digital reprocessing of information received from outer-space satellites – replete with all the desirable errors of mistranslation that such a process implies. ‘The...
La Société des Timides à la Parade des Oiseaux, ‘Lorsque’ From Tranches de Temps Jeté, USA BETA-LACTAM RING RECORDS mt074b CD (2006) Explosions in the Sky, ‘Look into the Air’ From How Strange Innocence, USA TEMPORARY RESIDENCE LTD TRR85 (2005) Volcano The Bear, ‘The Last Song of Norway’ From Classic Erasmus Fusion, USA BETA-LACTAM...
Couple of new devils roaring in from the Soleilmoon empire of strangely dark noises…Legendary Pink Dots released Alchemical Playschool (CAD 32) in October last year, an enterprise which we are told largely arose from a meeting between main Dot Edward Ka-Spel and Charles Powne, the Soleilmoon head cheese. Powne passed on a copy of...
Panasonic, ‘Murto Neste’ From Kulma, UK BLAST FIRST BFFP132CD (1996) Voltolux, ‘Baden’ From Voltolux, GERMANY MAMBO NO NUMBER LP (1997) Oval, ‘Standard Audio Frontend’ From dok, USA THRILL JOCKEY thrill 046 CD (1997) Farmers Manual, ‘Untitled’ (Track 15) From fsck, UK TRAY 1 CD (1997) Mouse On Mars, ‘Merge Merched#07.1′ From Modulation and Transformation...
Equation Records have spent a fair amount of resource in the production of a new LP Eras (E=MC19) by Apse, packing it in a luxury gatefold sleeve with glossy inner bag, while vinyl is the coveted 180gm pressing…yet only 425 numbered copies will be available to buying public later this month. Espying cover photographs...
Sum of R is a side project of RM74, for which he is joined by two members of Herpes Ö DeLuxe – both of these are Swiss noise, drone and electro-acoustic projects which have managed to summon up and portray vast fields of unknowable, metaphysical murk in their slow-moving scapes of sludge. On their...
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