As I play the first moody piece of this Slovakian dark ambient act it feels like I’m being pulled into an immensely deep hole in the ground. Everywhere around, sounds arise and fall away in the reverb-drenched atmosphere. There is a feeling of hopelessness that runs as a thread through the album. A sense that nothing can be done to change the tides.
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Memmaker – How To Enlist In A Robot Uprising (deluxe edition)
This is the Deluxe Edition of the 2007 release, “How To Enlist In A Robot Uprising”, from Guillaume Nadon and Yann Faussurier. The release includes the remastered original album and a bonus disc of remixes by such incredible artists as Stendeck, Xotox, Fractured, Cervello Electronico and a new song by Famine featuring It-Clings. I will focus on the new additions of remixes for the second disc of the deluxe edition, “How To Remix A Robot Uprising”.
Visions – Summoning The Void
CD, Cyclic Law, 2010 www.immensity.ca The void. A vast empty space containing absolutely nothing. How to represent nothingness in musical form? Clearly only very minimal dark ambient will do. The [ … ]
Mika Goedrijk – Looking-Glass World
CD, Ant-Zen, 2010 www.myspace.com/mikagoedrijk More widely recognized for the material he has produced under the guise of This Morn’ Omina and Pow[d]er Pussy, Mika Goedrijk nonetheless ventured away from collaborative [ … ]
Bipol – Fritter Away
CD, Ant-Zen, 2010 www.myspace.com/bipol07 There’s a certain point when the more generic Ant-Zen/Hands/rhythm’n’noise releases merge into an indistinguishable continuum. Too many artists follow the same tried and trusted formulas and [ … ]
Squaremeter (m2) – Heliogabal
CD, Ant-Zen, 2010 www.position-chrome.net Heliogabal, also known as Elagabalus or Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, was Roman emperor from 218 to 222 AD, a half-Syrian youth who served as a priest of [ … ]
N.A.M.B – BMAN
CD, Monotreme, 2009 / 2010 www.namb.it If you haven’t heard of Italy’s N.A.M.B yet, it’s probably one of those situations where your brain is refusing to accept sensory input because [ … ]
Simon Schall – Induktion der Ruhe
CD-R, Le Petit Maschiniste, 2010 www.simonschall.com Despite this being Simon Schall’s third album, the world has yet to see an upswing in the popularity of sci-fi/horror/cyber films like Shinya Tsukamoto’s [ … ]
V/A – 10 Years of Transmission
CD, UMB Kollektif, 2010 www.umbkollektif.com This is a free compilation celebrating the landmark of 10 years for the UMB label and includes a variety of artists from the label. Geneviève [ … ]
Neutral Lies – A Deceptive Calm
CD, BOREDOMproduct, 2010 www.neutrallies.online.fr Lies, it is generally accepted, are a bad thing, bringing no good to anybody, except perhaps short term gain to the liar. White lies might be [ … ]