The release showcases moody atmospheric instrumental pieces, but also brings in some very strong (and often distorted) beats and rhythms that are wonderfully engaging, easily grabbing attention. ‘Slightly dark IDM’ would be a more appropriate description of this music, rather than classifying this as a dark ambient release.
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Tábor Radosti – Agartta
It would have been preferable to have more original Tábor Radosti work, especially after such a long wait since the last album, but that is just one of a couple of minor complaints about what is generally a quite enjoyable piece of very dark electronica.
V/A – Hypercommunity
Aliens serve up something excellent in the form of “Hypercommunity” – and the record forms both an excellent introduction to a very exciting label as well as a welcome sampler of new material for existing fans.
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Ambassador 21 feat. Converter “New Doctrine About Trinity EP” (Invasion Digital) Headdreamer “Remixed” (Aliens Production) Various “5 Years” (Bad Sekta) Various “cum to my house. i have beer, i have [ … ]
Aliens Production: an interview with Ryby
Roughly active for over ten years and with a regular output for almost five, the Slovakian label Aliens Production is perhaps one of the prime references for underground dark electronics [ … ]
Ambiguous – Stone Cross
As I play the first moody piece of this Slovakian dark ambient act it feels like I’m being pulled into an immensely deep hole in the ground. Everywhere around, sounds arise and fall away in the reverb-drenched atmosphere. There is a feeling of hopelessness that runs as a thread through the album. A sense that nothing can be done to change the tides.
Anhedonia – Ontology
CD, Aliens Production, 2009 www.myspace.com/anhedoniacz The Slovakian label, Aliens, did not fully realize the implications of what they were releasing upon an unsuspecting world when they signed Anhedonia. The first [ … ]
Disharmony – X-frames
CD, Aliens Productions, 2006 disharmony.aliens.sk À propos an astral episode where your mind might otherwise have been occupied by the sheer immensity of the void that once was your living [ … ]
Oxyd – Larva
CD, Aliens Productions, 2007 www.label.aliens.sk Oxyd presents the listener with something of an audio conundrum: modern electronic music that places more emphasis on the musical element than the electronic. It [ … ]
Samhain – Violent Identity
CD, Aliens Productions, 2007 www.label.aliens.sk Samhain (not to be confused with Glenn Danzig’s early-1980s punk band of the same name) is not, by any sense of the word, dance music. [ … ]