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1/06/2015

Mihidea - Sites (2013)




/Experimental, Drone, Microscopic, Electro-acoustic, Ambient drone, Experimental electronica, Dark ambient, Dystopbient/

Comment: if to explore the track titles of the issue you can see the artist is obviously activated by pessimism and failure of human activity. Eroded Homeland, Displaced Technology, and Buried Desires are all lengthy progressions in sound due to microtonal shades and veiled shards. The soundscape used to sway between ominous dark ambient/illbient currents and austere electro-acoustic bits as if communicating impending doom or catastrophe to the listener. Or is it just the wind coming out of uncharted areas into your room loaded with dreary messages and awful murmurs? Anyway, it just one example – there is also up a more lucid, signal-alike droning component with phase shifting and microscopic electronic ornaments and sonic effects on the top. Ultimately the issue offers up a nice listening time with underlying density.     

9/25/2014

Data Snow – Phases (2014)




/Dark ambient, Abstract, Dystopbient, Sound art, Epic, Illbient, Soundscapes, Minimalism, Microtonal, Avant-garde, Experimentalism, Post-industrial/

Comment: although Data Snow`s 8-piece issue is formally starkly bleak and austere its emotional impression renders into something remarkably significant and striking. The project`s thoroughly experimental approach emerges through minimally composed music predominantly providing hints at classical music, ambient soundscapes, and minimal music. Indeed, some sonic details are barely within earshot and the narrative used to meander without blasts or crackles. However, all the aforementioned stylistic firmaments are contaminated with evil-sounding stances and visages. Instead of outer space it is rather music composed for the visualization of abandoned junkyards and nuclear test territories foreboding an impending catastrophe coming out of there. Ironically, it is fairly beatific and arching composition at its core. Less is more...imaginative.          

4/10/2014

Lethal Bronze - Lost Knowledges (2013)



  • Ambient
  • Microtonal
  • Experimental electronica
Outstanding tracks:
Lost Knowledges #3



11/22/2013

Zoÿ Archa - Tremendous Fury (2013)



  • Ambient noise
  • Ambient drone
  • Experimentalism
  • Avant-electronica
  • Abstract
  • Post-industrial
  • Noise
Outstanding tracks:
Dog 
Lamb
Crocodile

Obscure Blood - Dead Water (2013)



  • Drone ambient
  • Abstract
  • Avant-garde
  • Experimentalism
  • Post-industrial
  • Dark ambient
Outstanding tracks:
Dead Water 3
Dead Water 4


10/02/2013

Empty Flat Resonance - Cephalothorax (2013)



  • Drone ambient
  • Sound art
  • Abstract
  • Microsound
  • Experimental electronica
  • Noise
  • Avant-electronica
Outstanding tracks:
1-2
3-4
5-6
7-8

5/20/2013

Transparent Body - Black Lights From The Wandering Stars (2013)




9.6

/Ambient drone, Microtonal, Abstract, Dystopbient, Ambient noise, Minimalism, Drone, Avant-garde, Psycho-acoustic, Experimentalism/

Comment: firstly, the title says everything. Indeed, this handful of compositions is dark/black, filled in with a huge array of full and half shades, monochromatic, subdued noises and hissing drones which used to sprout, undulate and blossom in the background. Sometimes the whole resounds like a mechanical device at a short distance. Maybe the only exception is the opening track due to the exploitation of some pitch effects channelized into the mix. All these elements have been managed to result in the so-called holophonic soundscape - while you are listening to it you have been equipped with new imaginations and impressions, however, some of them might be chiming quite otherworldly and abstract. For instance, Light #4 sounds like a shimmering, mystical sea of microtonal chants, soothing brown-ish noise bits, and reverberating effects overhead. It can be assumed it is a very profound, even psychedelic experience. Indeed, less is much more you are even able to perceive. Furthermore, the density hovering above the aforementioned elements can be cut with the knife. One of the best albums in 2013 to date.