CD, Thisco, 2006 www.loopcentury.com This just in from innovative Portuguese label Thisco, a new take on world music – rather than the composers and performers of the world, the equipment [ … ]
Tag: 2006
V/A – I, Mute Hummings
CD, Ex Ovo, 2006 www.exovo.org One has to have a lot of guts to start a new label in an era where illegal digitalisation and distribution of audio material is [ … ]
Angina P – 8 Rooms
CD, Notochord, 2006 www.anginap.net/8-rooms Released through Notochord, “8 Rooms”, the first proper physical release to come from the one-woman project Angina P, is one of the best releases I’ve had [ … ]
Rename – Energize
CD, A Different Drum, 2006 www.rename-music.com If there were one Synthpop release that I can say I’ve really been looking forward to hearing this year, it would have to be [ … ]
Ybrid – Khaos de Viscera
CD, Ark-Aïk, 2006 www.ybrid.org Before I even begin I have to admit that Hardcore is a style of music I don’t know very much about. I certainly have an understanding [ … ]
Altaï & Abraxas Projekt – Ouroboros
CD, Oceanik Creations, 2006 www.oceanikcreations.com The collaboration between the duo of Cédric Stoquer and Sébastien Renou of Altaï and Jérôme Paressant of Abraxas Projekt started early in 2004 when they [ … ]
Tristraum – First Embrace
Maxi-Single CDR, Section 44, 2006 www.tristraum.com Tristraum’s debut album “Gray” was a haunting epic combining elements of modern day Synthpop and New Wave with Ethereal harmonies. Being that the albums [ … ]
IWR – Ground Zero
CD, Black Rain, 2006 www.iwrband.com “Calling you to help me play my role”, screeches IWR front man in a song imaginatively titled “Calling You”, and it was this, the only [ … ]
ESA – Devotion, Discipline, and Denial
CD, Hive Records, 2006 www.electronicsubstanceabuse.com With this debut release from the British ESA (Electronic Substance Abuse) Hive records is supposedly “bringing the fucking beats back”. Luckily ESA are bringing a [ … ]
V/A – Festival der Subkulturellen Toene
CDR, Einzeleinheit/Terrorverlag, 2006 www.einzeleinheit.de ‘Expect the unexpected’ is the operating expression when one considers the Einzeleinheit label and this compilation is no exception. Released in collaboration with the Terrorverlag webzine, [ … ]