CD, Bit Riot, 2010 www.bitriotrecords.com Defcon is the equivalent of multiple personality disorder, ranging from melodic waltzes to growls amidst a wall of throbbing guitar and bone crushing drums. It [ … ]
Category: Reviews
Ido Tavori – Rhythm is a Beggar
CD, LovePoem Records, 2009 www.myspace.com/idotavori Ido Tavori’s “Rhythm is a Beggar” illustrates two things very well: firstly, that Israel has a lot more to offer to the musical diaspora than [ … ]
Bitch Brigade – Dendrite
CD, Crunch Pod, 2010 www.myspace.com/bbrigade Bitch Brigade is the latest addition to the Crunch Pod roster consisting of band members: Agrippa and Zero. The album “Dendrite” delivers a mix of [ … ]
Various Artists – Auto-Reverse
CD, Boredom Product, 2009 www.boredomproduct.online.fr “Auto-Reverse” is a low-priced label compilation with a difference; it features 17 tracks from the French label Boredom Product’s back-catalogue with each covered by a [ … ]
Amon Vs. Mortar – Amon Vs. Mortar
CD-R, Afe Records , 2008 www.aferecords.com/releases/afe101cd.htm According to the albums notes the basic material for this album was constructed by Mortar and then enhanced further by Amon – the later [ … ]
Spherical Disrupted – Quasar
CD, Audiophob, 2009 www.disrupted.de Space! The final frontier. An expanse so vast it cannot be conceived by the simple human imagination. A great source of inspiration for artists and scientists [ … ]
Imminent – Cask strength
CD, Ant Zen, 2009 www.myspace.com/tentack Olivier Moreau aka Imminent’s, latest release on Ant Zen, ‘Cask Strength’ is a full blown assault of percussive glitches and hard distortions. It begins with [ … ]
Meerkat – Kapnos
CD, Afe Records/Grey Sparkle/Ctrl+Alt+Canc Records/Nighthawks Tapes, 2009 www.greysparkle.com Meerkat is an Italian collective of ten experimental sound artists. After creating two albums which dealt with the concepts ‘clouds’ and ‘desert’, [ … ]
Dense Vision Shrine – Time Lost In Oblivion
CD+DVD, First Fallen Star, 2009 www.myspace.com/densevisionshrine The Norwegian artist Karsten Hamre has been reasonably prolific for a number of years, with projects such as Penitent and Arcane Art, gaining a [ … ]
Thomas Watkiss – Ancestor II: Machine
2CD, The Seventh Media, 2009 www.thomaswatkiss.net The second installment in a trilogy not yet complete, “Ancestor II: Machine” sees drone artist Thomas Watkiss closely following the themes laid down in [ … ]