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A mere few weeks after Water Mirror, and we’re already treated to another Fourcolor album. The man never stops…
Guitarist Timothy Young won my heart when I saw him perform with Wayne Horvitz' Zony Mash ensemble. I knew the CD's but this band truly came to life in the live-situation, something I can give Timothy a large part of the credit for because his performance was much wilder than the recorded versions seemed.
The man/machine concept seems a neverending source of inspiration for new metalbands. Particularly because homerecording has spread and the use of drumcomputers and synthesizers is available to everyone with a PC. Not that this is a homerecording, this is recorded in a real studio and it sounds professional indeed.
It’s already the fourth releases for Andreas Tilliander under the Mokira alias. And his 17th, all projects combined. I’m not even taking his various works as producer into account. Impressive record for the Swede, especially given the general quality of his music.
Biosphere. One of the biggest names in the music we call ambient. Albums which we will still enjoy after 50 years. Timeless and abstract. Mysterious and distant. Cold, as well as warm. Not always easy, but always a relief to listen to. That is Biosphere. And there’s a new album out…
"OK, here’s your motivation: you’re lost and angry in the woods and there’s no one here to help you". Lines taken from the Blair Witch project, but I think they sum up perfectly the feeling of the title track from Wolf Eyes' Dead Hills ep.
F.S. Blumm is one of the most prolific and interesting musicians of the German new music scene. On Sesamsamen, he has fun with some of his friends. The result is interesting, but not entirely captivating.
Since Nasum was created in 1992 the band has lifted the grindcore genre to a higher level, and proved that this type of music knows no limitations whatsoever. Last week they toured through Holland for the first time in four years to promote the new album Shift; a good reason for yours truly to go completely crazy at their show.
The young Norwegian folk-rockers Gåte should be known by now by readers of m[m]. The quintet has just released their second full-length album which entered the Norwegian charts at the #3 position and they deserved it!
Keiichi Sugimoto’s solo project Fourcolor gets at long last a wide distribution with this release on Apestaartje.
The DJ-Kicks formula from the !K7 label is not an unfamiliar phenomenon anymore. Not surprisingly, when you notice that some of the best musicians have already contributed to these series. But Erlend Øye? Not that he’s a bad musician, on the contrary, but as a DJ? Is !K7 suddenly changing a winning concept?
Sun lights down on the fences begins like many albums of today’s experimental music: glitches, noises, saxophone, a little bit of guitar, nothing really engaging. Mind you, it ain’t bad. It’s nothing special. Then comes the second track. All of sudden, there is light at the end of the tunnel. This is one gem of an album.
Coil offer us up another black audio ritual, topped off nicely with a DVD of all enveloping mindscapes.
With Legacy, dark ambient legend vidnaObmana concludes his Dante Trilogy with yet another endless CD full of, hmmmm, well … dark sounds.
Are you happy now with the choices you have made? Are there there times in life you know you should have stayed? Will you compromise than realize the price was too much to pay. Winners and losers......which one will you be today?
The first rumours about this release I heard were those concerning Ulver's participation which seemed quite interesting, hearing the label which was going to release it made me worry a bit. Within the current gothic metal scene Dead Can Dance have quite a rep, but although I like the honoured, aforementioned scene honouring it didn't seem my cup of tea.
Among all the US rock underground, few achieved a more legendary status than Harvey Milk. They broke up a good six years ago, having released a handful of essential ep’s and lp’s on various small indie labels. Not many people did actually pay attention at the time, now is your chance to jump on the bandwagon.
It has been more than two years since the last Tha Blue Herb full-length. A very long time. Right now, it’s a bit unclear when new stuff will be released. Earlier this year, though, TBH released a CD featuring the soundtrack they made for a film.
Over the last couple of years, quite a few bands mixed rock music and electronics. Sometimes it was great, but quite often it was just another CD release we could have done without. The new Signer album does not fall in the great_as_in_fucking_awesome category, but is worth every minute it took me to listen to it.
With their tenth album Ireland's Therapy? are maybe even stronger now than they were a couple of years ago. Every album released has been compared to their intitial succes Troublegum from 1994. And honestly, none of them had the same impact on me as that one.
Some people felt let down by the latest Dillinger Escape Plan, for those people (and of course people who are into extremity, by which I mean extremity! This ain't no kid's stuff we're talking about here) there's the trio called Pig Destroyer. Guitar, drums and vocals (yep, no bass) are enough to rip your fucken head off!
Ekkehard Ehlers is one of the main players in the German electronic scene. However, leftfield electronic music is not his only passion. He is back with the second album of März, his pop project.
Herbest Moon is the side-project of Tha Blue Herb’s MC, Ill-Bosstino. After a few 12 inches, here are two full-lengths. I’ve got mixed feelings on them.
Zombies. Films. Dario Argento. And then music. And then Zombi. And then Cosmos.