2CD, Cyclic Law, 2009 http://www.svartsinn.com/ The Norwegian musician Jan Roger Pettersen has been releasing dark ambient compositions under the name of Svartsinn for ten years now, and although the last [ … ]
Tag: 2009
Life’s Decay – Dysrieuses
CD, Abstraktsens Produktions, 2009 www.lifesdecay.com As I’ve watched genres mutate and scenes emerge and die over the years my tastes have only become more extreme. At the peak of my [ … ]
V/A – Thesis Vol.1
CD, Impulsive Art, 2009 www.impulart.com This is the second release from the new label on the block, Impulsive Art. It contains some well known acts from the realm of IDM/electro [ … ]
Dexy Corp_ – Fragmentation
CD, Black Rain, 2009 www.myspace.com/dexycorp Dexy Corp_, the next, best thing in contemporary French industrial rock, make life difficult for a reviewer: objectivity, the most fundamental requirement of any journalistic [ … ]
Kush Arora – Boiling Over
CD, Record Label Records / Kush Arora Productions, 2009 www.kusharora.com “Boiling Over” steers Kush Arora’s unique take on global bass, in his own words, “away from the club and into [ … ]
Alarmen – Next
CD, Audiophob, 2009 www.alarmen.de Alarmen, in naming their most recent record “Next”, were halfway right. Unfortunately for them, the half they left off was the “please” that should have followed [ … ]
v01d – This Is Not A False Alarm Anymore
2CD + digital, Artoffact Records, 2009 http://www.myspace.com/v01d Never mind this album having been out a little while, it was quite a while in coming, too. It is five years or [ … ]
Opposite Exhale – Nothing Lasts
CD, Tympanik Audio, 2009 www.myspace.com/oppositeexhale Eelco Jellema, AKA Opposite Exhale, presents, in the form of “Nothing Lasts” an album with one very distinct message: “I am very, very clever.” In [ … ]
Kshatriy – Slepok Soznaniya
CD, Muzyka Voln, 2009 www.myspace.com/kshatriy If the Icelandic volcano had erupted four days earlier I would have been stranded in Prague, perhaps for sometime (admittedly it could be much worse). [ … ]
Dicepeople – Time To Play
CD/free download,self-release, 2009 www.dicepeople.org Dicepeople, Matt Brock’s one man project, delivers a delicious mix of hard synth-driven electronica and melodic IDM. “Time to Play” delivers a 50 minute auditory delight [ … ]