After Delicate Noise’s debut album ‘Diversion’, I get the impression that the Chicago based act will have little trouble generating a fan base with the electro, dark wave, and/or post-industrial crowds. Production is tight and clean, if not entirely shocking.

Saltillo, a new name for me, is mostly the solo project of one Menton J. Matthews III, who plays a whole orchestra of instruments by himself and also does the electronic programming. The result is a diverse and rich sounding debut album.

Oil 10 is the brainchild of Frenchman Gilles Rossire. He produces electronic music in the shadowzones of ambient and techno. Beyond is the follow-up album to Arena (Brume Records, 2003).

Antigen Shift, a project initiated by Nick Thériault from Canada, made a good impression on me in the past with an industrial soundscape style. The way of the north appears to me as quite a departure from his previous work.

Most of the time Hymen comes up with good releases. From time to time their releases are even more then just good. This Ginormous album is one of those. Expect no standard IDM. This is really something else.

I had to pick up this cd when I saw it at a fleamarket for a single euro. Morr Music is a respected label in the field of contemporary electronica, and B. Fleischmann has built up a name with his harmonic electro soundscapes. For Duo 505 he worked together with the lesser known Herbert Weixelbaum.

When I first encountered cdr’s of Detritus I found the music directly exciting. Now Detritus has released his second album on Ad Noiseam. The musical recipe has not changed that much, only the musical spectrum has become wider and the production richer.

Here we have an interesting collaboration: Reutoff from Russia and Antlers Mulm from Germany. On this streamlined looking LP release both acts contribute an exclusive track, as well as remix two tracks of each other.