Before one can listen to a CD one must confront the CD’s cover, one has to be able to see it, to be able to pick it up, to open it and finally take out the CD and put it in the CD-player. With this new CD by Florian Hecker that was a hard thing to do as it has one of the ugliest covers I’ve ever seen…
Lopez, Francisco + Steve Roden – Le chemin du paradis
January 15, 2003 by
Francisco Lopez is well known in the drone-scene for his amazing sound recording and sound-manipulation of natural phenomena. Recording rainforests, underwater life, etc. He often ranges from very silent and total quietness to huge walls of sound. Steve Roden is best known for his In between Noise project, that did lots of recordings on special sites, such as unused buildings, etc…
Grey Wolves, The – Blood and Sand
January 14, 2003 by
England is well known to most people for a couple of things; English people, black pudding, The Royal Family, Thatcher, inbreeding, hippies, crusties, hooligans, etcetera. This sets the scene for England’s less well known and small but persistent power-electronics scene. One of the more established acts in this scene is The Grey Wolves…
Dissecting Table – Memories
January 14, 2003 by
The Japanese Dissecting Table generally has two kind of releases, one is more ambient-noise oriented soundscape stuff, the other is a combination of rhythmic-industrial and noise. I’m not sure if this new CD also presents new material, as it sounds exactly like older stuff by Dissecting Table, but this CD certainly falls into the second category of his releases…
Predella Avant – Predella Avant
December 24, 2002 by
Predella Avant is a new project by a musically very talented, and very productive guy from The Hague (the Netherlands). He has released tons of other releases in quite different musical styles and with Predella Avant now focuses on neoclassical-industrial, a style that I guess was once started by Laibach…
Moljebka Pvlse – Sadalmelik
December 23, 2002 by
After a contribution to Cold Meat’s ‘esthetics of cruelty’ compilation, which cought my attention because of it’s subtlety, a stunning full-lenth CD ‘koan’ on the Pre-Feed label, and some excellent live cdr’s and live performances, my expectations for this new release by Moljebka Pvlse were very high…
Barrett, Natasha – Isostasie
December 17, 2002 by
[this review also deals with Stephan Dunkelman – Rhizomes] The Empreintes Digitales label has over the years released lots of material by composers of so called ‘musique concrete’ and ‘electroacoustic’ music…
Dunkelman, Stephan – Rhizomes
December 17, 2002 by
[this review also deals with Natasha Barrett – Isostasie] The Empreintes Digitales label has over the years released lots of material by composers of so called ‘musique concrete’ and ‘electroacoustic’ music…
Scanner + Tonne – Sound Polaroids
December 17, 2002 by
This cd is a collaboration between Scanner, who released lots of cutting edge electronic records over the years, and Tonne, whom I’ve never heard of so far. It is a soundtrack for an exhibition held at various locations…
Pure – Noonbugs
November 22, 2002 by
Having heard some of Pure’s previous solo works and the split 12″ with Christoph Fringeli (who runs Praxis) I expected this release to be one big noiseblast. That is why this cd came as a total surprise. The tracks seem to be built around loops of classical music, concrete sounds and skipping cd players…
Baker, Aidan – Pretending To Be Fearless
November 22, 2002 by
Aidan Baker, from Toronto, Canada, combines warm drones with minimal post rock structures. The drone parts are really pulsing, deep and minimal and are very well done. They remind one of the works of Amon/Never Known or perhaps Moljebka Pulse…
Professor Smalls – Out of body experiences EP
November 21, 2002 by
Professor Smalls is a project by Martin Stovey, who is also involved in Elixir (experimental beats) and Sykes (more relaxed dance orientated tunes). “Out of body experiences” is called an EP, though it contains 60 minutes of music. To be frankly, this release by prof…
