CD, self-released, 2008 www.igorrr-music.com Igorrr returns with his signature hybridised sound – a mangled maelstrom of classical coupled with modern synthesised and virtual instrumentation, resulting in a breakbeat-black metal-opera exercise [ … ]
Tag: self-released
The Chaos Industry – Karoshi
CD-R, self-released, 2007 www.tcindustry.com The initial, but hastily re-evaluated, reaction to The Chaos Industry’s “Karoshi” is one of interest – radio static and stabs of stations changing, intriguingly displayed as [ … ]
Cyanhide – Dancefloor
CD, self-released, 2003 www.cyanhide.com Although nearly a decade has passed since I last donned a lace shirt, frock coat and black lipstick, or screwed in imaginary lightbulbs while choking on [ … ]
Igorrr – Poisson Soluble
CD, self-released, 2007 www.igorrr-music.com Incongruities abound and weirdness lurks behind every other bar on Igorrr’s “Poison Soluble.” Accordion and harpsichord arrangements vie for supremacy in a bizarre, ever-shifting, organic amalgam [ … ]
Banister – Rotor EP
CD-R EP, self-released, 2006 www.myspace.com/beggarlybanister Banister’s “Rotor” EP is a tentative fusion of musical events. The first track, “Rotor,” is a gorgeous, driving presentation of bassline synthesizing that makes one’s [ … ]
Banister – This Is Not About Noise
CD-R, self-released, 2007 www.myspace.com/beggarlybanister When I first popped Banister’s “This is not about noise” into my CD player, I assumed that it’s yet another rhythmic noise act’s pretentious attempt at [ … ]
JapaneseCARCRASH – BADmachine
CD, self-released, 2007 www.myspace.com/japanesecarcrash “You can’t tell me what to do!” is a phrase commonly used by rebellious teenagers the world over when figures of authority ask or demand things [ … ]
ManicProject – Square0ne
CD, self-released, 2007 www.manicproject.com Somebody give this guy a Grammy already. With vocals at times reminiscent of “Broken”-era Nine Inch Nails, and guitar-driven song structures that regularly slide into the [ … ]
Freeze Etch – Pejorative
CD-R, self-released, 2007 www.freezeetch.com Adam Duckworth, a.k.a. Freeze Etch, has impeccable taste in packaging. The direct result of this is that the limited print of “Pejorative” is a particularly beautifully [ … ]
Control Alt Deus – Control Alt Deus (demo 2007)
CD-R, self-released, 2007 www.myspace.com/controlaltdeus Within a genre as oversaturated with mediocrity as that of dark electro (or “Endzeit EBM,” “Hellektro,” or what-have-you) it is a rare pleasure to find something [ … ]