CD, West Audio Music, 2009 www.athana.no Stuff gets sent out and arrives at our office. From that moment on it is a matter of time before the release gets the [ … ]
Category: Reviews
Lewsor – No Error
CD, Audiotrauma, 2010 www.lewsor.com Noise. Not exactly a music form that is renowned for its sense of humour. In fact it’s mostly quite surly and terribly serious and mostly made [ … ]
Strange2 – Ciclos
CD, Lovethechaos, 2010 www.lovethechaos.net In over three years, the time that passed between the release of Strange2’s first album and this new one, many changes can happen in one’s life [ … ]
Everything Goes Cold – vs. General Failure
CD, Bit Riot Records, 2009 www.everythinggoescold.com Everything Goes Cold is a gritty addition to the metal/electro hybrid genre from Eric Gottesman, Kenny Pardo, and James Webb, which brings a sense [ … ]
Dogpop – Jahrmarkt Der Verlorenen Kinder
CD, UMB Kollektif, 2009 www.umbkollektif.com “Jahrmarkt Der Verlorenen Kinder” comes six years after “Popgof”, the full-length debut of Dogpop, the joint project of Michael Rief (alias Brigand Moloch) and Dan [ … ]
Sil Muir – Sil Muir
CD, Diophantine Discs, 2009 www.myspace.com/silmui Packed in an oversized cardboard box – which is one of the visual trademarks of the San Diego based label Diophantine Discs – lies a [ … ]
Scaffolding – Narratives
digital download, Plastic Sound Supply, 2009 www.myspace.com/scaffolding As a whole, Scaffolding’s “Narratives” looks to the twin inspirations of classic IDM and contemporary minimal techno in finding its own path. It [ … ]
Urceus Exit – Compensation For The Sound Of Silence
2CD-R/free download, Artoffact, 2009 www.urceusexit.com A new band with a new name, at least in my little world, and a mysterious name at that. Using the magic of the internet [ … ]
Foretaste – Terrorist TV
CD, BOREDOMproduct, 2009 www.foretaste-music.com “Clean and modern electro-pop” is the headline on French duo Foretaste’s website, which is a lovely phrase and possibly my favourite type of electro-pop, at least [ … ]
W.A.S.T.E. – A Silent Mantra of Rage
2CD, Vendetta Music, 2009 www.seektotalentropy.com Silent, huh? You have to laugh at the irony of the title, really. Those of you, like me, who were all-too-aware of their debut album [ … ]