Search for   wildcard searchword search With search mode ANDOR in allband specialsreviewsarticlesmp3 section(s) And sort the results by BandnameAlbumtitle/Articletitle/SongDate show articles written by All authorsNiels van Rongen Andreas Oelke Sander Hordijk Jacob Avlund Justin Faase Aldo Quispel Dan Felch François Monti Jeff Jacobus David Bauwens Roger Batty Patrick Toepoel John Pusieski Duncan Simpson Erwin Michelfelder N.S. Endebo Nicholas Szczepanik Delirious Insomniac manuel pereira Russell Cuzner Sven Klippel Serdar Yegulalp Josh Landry Lawrence J. Patti David Bourgoin Viktorya Kaufholz Andy Ortmann Various Justin Marc Lloyd Martin P James DC Todd Robinson Nicola Vinciguerra Bill Too Ross Baker Richard T Williams Paul Casey Hal Harmon Dave Biddulph Michael Cunningham Jean-Paul Garnier Tyler L. Julien Skrobek Cory Strand Adam Skyes Darren Charles James Shearman Sergey Pakhomov Johan Strömvall Hammarstedt Lob Instagon Jennifer Wallis Jan Warnke Damien De Coene A. Cooley Manuel Armida-Honner Julien Skrobek Karl Grümpe Colin Lang Alex McLean Cavan Gilbey Sarah Gregory Jac Silver Casper van der Veen Joanne West William Burns    Review archive:  # a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z Atomsmasher - s/t [Hydrahead - 2001] James Plotkin's latest release is a departure of the poppy and ambient activities of the last five years. The very dense material on this album is very intense and energetic. The album sounds like Squarepusher has been drinking coffee and has been using speed for a couple of days, listening to grindcore instead of jazzrock. Electronically dissected and reassembled blastspeed drums and highpitched, frantic vocals pierce your ears in frequency regions you can cut glass with. It takes four songs to get to a point where you can gasp for air in an oasis of ambient guitar. Atomsmasher really needs some time to sink in. After a few listens it reveals the melodic content. It's somewhat similar to the way OLD's 'Lo Flux Tube' started to grow on me after some puzzling listens. You can discover some more conventional structures buried in layers of mindmelting noise. Other parts are better to consume like a very aggressive ambient soundscape. The developments in James' music of the last few years that incorporated more 'direct' sounds instead of using kilometers of echo and reverb are also evident. Some guitar parts are very dry and others are more distant and ambient. There's a lot of aggression is this music but, just like the first Old Lady Drivers album, despite its violent nature there are definitely some humorous injections. Both the vocals and certain sounds are very funny. Personally I also see humour in the extreme amounts of noise themselves. Maybe it's the 'over-the-top'-ness of it all, but that's just me. Although everything is heavily edited and often constructed with computertools there is a strong, organic element in the music (though I have no idea how to perform something like this live!). The songtitle 'Pokemon Gangbang' might illustrate what to expect for people with a imaginative mind. For people familiar with OLD: imagine OLD on 78 rpm or something like that. Atomsmasher - s/t James Plotkin's latest release is a departure of the poppy and ambient activities of the last five years. The very dense material on this album is very inten... 240226   Stephen O‘Malley - Spheres ... 200226   100 Tears - 100 Tears( Blu Ray) 200226   Garden Of Love, - Garden Of L... 200226   Blood Dolls - Blood Dolls( Bl... 190226   Various Artists - So High I'v... 190226   D.A.M. - Inside The Wreckage 190226   Senso - Senso( Blu Ray) 190226   Columbia Noir # 7: Made In Br... 180226   Brutal Shift - Pain Has Broug... 180226   Jakob The Liar - Jakob The Li... Crude ‘n’ Hope-corroding Wall... Back in 2024, I got my first taste of Absurd Reality, and I was so impressed by how crude and nasty its take on walled noise was. Behind the project is South... 290126   Crude ‘n’ Hope-corroding ... 231225   Creepy Images Books - Killer Art 221225   Best Of 2025 - Music, Sound &... 041225   The Spectral Sounds of The Pr... 281025   Michael Hurst Interview - Unb... 071025   Xiphos - The Rise And Fall Of... 030925   Third Window Films - A Label ... 130825   HNW fest- Barcelona- 12th Apr... 250725   Raté interview - Walled-in F... 180625   Matthew Holmes - Of razor-sha...

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