CD, Mythical Records, 2008 www.tsdf.net Hybrid genres can be scary. Bands that use a whole lot of hyphens to describe their sound often assume the ever so defensive “We are [ … ]
Tag: 2008
The Other Colors – 361
CD, LAC Records, 2008 www.theothercolors.com I was first introduced to French electropop artists Laurent Chambert and Marie Möör’s music through their previous project Rose Et Noire. While there are obvious [ … ]
Blue October – Walk Amongst The Living
CD, A Different Drum, 2008 www.blueoctober.co.uk It’s sometimes curious how success eludes certain bands operating in relatively commercial musical areas. Essex’s Blue October are now up to their third full-length [ … ]
Igor Stevanovic – Devil’s Night Jazz
3″ CD-R, T’an! Kaven!! Ash!!!, 2008 www.tka-subdivision.org T’an! Kaven!! Ash!!!, the avant-garde/experimental music ‘subdivision’ of Israeli label The Eastern Front should hardly be familiar to most given the particular nature [ … ]
V/A – Pangaea Noise – An international compilation
CD, Syrphe, 2008 www.syrphe.com C-drík Fremont is well known in some musical circles for his work as a musician, participating in more projects than it would be practical to list [ … ]
Ensslin – Holocaust In Heaven
CD, Death Paradise, 2008 www.myspace.com/ensslingudrun Ensslin’s fairly unique brand of extreme black electro is definitely not recommended for the faint-hearted. Or the religious, prudish or those prone to seizures. It [ … ]
CJ Borosque + Robert M. and INSTAGON – Beautiful
CD, Edgetone Records, 2008 www.noisegoddess.com “Beautiful” is a 3-track release by CJ Borosque + Robert M. and INSTAGON. The first two tracks being of the harsher noise strain and the [ … ]
Dalglish – Ideom
CD, Record Label Records, 2008 www.myspace.com/rougishscald This is a very curious CD. For a start it has taken me about three or four listens to actually finally ‘get it’ and [ … ]
Zero Degree – The Inner Realm
CD, Audiophob, 2008 www.zero-degree.de Matthias Erhard is the creator of Zero Degree. While “The Inner Realm” was the first this reviewer had heard of both the artist and his label, [ … ]
Heft vs. Scaffolding – We Will Diminish
download-only, Plastic Sound Supply, 2008 plasticsoundsupply.com/release/heft_vs_scaffolding_-_we_will_diminish/ The first release on the Plastic Sound Supply label – and currently available for free from the label’s website! – this four-tracker contains one [ … ]