CD, Malignant Records, 2010 www.phelios.de A title like “Astral Unity” gives worrying images of hippies enjoying psychedelic experiences, but luckily this is German dark ambient artist, Phelios, with his fourth [ … ]
Category: Reviews
V/A – Main Control Board
CD, Lagunamuch Community, 2010 www.langunamuch.com Two years in the making, “Main Control Board” is a release about which the Lagunamuch Community is particularly proud – with good reason. Sort of [ … ]
KiEw – Mental [Per]mutation
2CD, Out Of Line, 2010 www.kiew.org KiEw are a rare case of relative success in the niche genre of electro-industrial music and are often often described as having bridged rhythmic [ … ]
Kernel Drop – The Dreambox
Digital Release, Glory Box Records, 2007 www.myspace.com/kerneldrop “The Dreambox” is apparently the debut full-length from Italian artist Kernel Drop, presenting listeners with seven cuts (a few rather extensive, at more [ … ]
Life’s Decay – Dysrieuses
CD, Abstraktsens Produktions, 2009 www.lifesdecay.com As I’ve watched genres mutate and scenes emerge and die over the years my tastes have only become more extreme. At the peak of my [ … ]
Architect – Consume Adapt Create
CD, Hymen Records, 2010 www.ant-zen.com/architect/ Over the years Daniel Myer has worked under many pseudonyms releasing a range of albums and singles covering many electronic music styles for a multitude [ … ]
V/A – Thesis Vol.1
CD, Impulsive Art, 2009 www.impulart.com This is the second release from the new label on the block, Impulsive Art. It contains some well known acts from the realm of IDM/electro [ … ]
Psyborg Corp – The Mechanical Renaissance
CD, Noitekk, 2010 www.myspace.com/psyborgcorp The latest offering in a trend of perfectly generic, uninspired and perfectly discardable cybergothic/hellektro, “The Mechanical Renaissance” is the result of the talent and imagination (or [ … ]
Graphical Sound – Shapes
CD-R, Synethesthesia Recordings, 2008 www.synesthesiarecordings.com There is an evident theme that is staple from most of the artists that release music on the Synesthesia label: filtered pads and glitches that [ … ]
Dexy Corp_ – Fragmentation
CD, Black Rain, 2009 www.myspace.com/dexycorp Dexy Corp_, the next, best thing in contemporary French industrial rock, make life difficult for a reviewer: objectivity, the most fundamental requirement of any journalistic [ … ]