“Six surreal, obsessive and hypnotic songs. Quirky fables, gloomy and humorous, smashed and squeezed pop, onieric and psychedelic, future songwriting — experimental in the best meaning of the word.
Surprising with the originality of the sound and ideas. Expressive in her introvertiveness. Absolutely astonishing. Unusual. Perfect.”
“The March Issue is HUNKER DOWN ROY’s effort to twist your earbrain up into an unfamiliar knotspace. Hints of madness and method entangle you as you listen to it. This release features contributions from the notorious Crash Mitchell, as well as remixes by Mike Love 666 and Bloxwich Beat Box.”
“Set to stand alone with a strong physical presence is Ophibre’s REFERENCE. This sonic sculpture communicates through complex interconnected paths that breathe as natural forces allow them to adapt. The track begins with a prickly textural abstraction, both organic and mechanical, and then continues to a melodic and psychedelic outgrowth of the original movement.
Unified by layers of recordings the first half of REFERENCE is shaped by the experiences of the past, not directly representational but guided by spiritual and intellectually developed sonic imagery. The floating quality of atonal noise creates a moving mirage of thoughts and memories that are shifted and refracted through the second movement. The melodic movement solidifies the references to the past as it allows for meditative tones to set a common focus that acts as a guide to self-awareness.”
“Hermetic Sound surprise us with their latest net-release. Vastly different from the house and drum & bass tracks we were used to from them, this release is an intelligent mixture of hard driving beats, sonic experimentation and provocative samples. Sweet and luscious melodies bring light and hope into the dark and claustrophobic ambiances achieved by ruthless complex rhythms and oppressive sounds.”
“Sustain Braille presents 4 tracks which take you to different settings. With every listening you explore more layers, more sounds and you hear something new and surprising. Environmental sounds, field recordings, abstract soundscapes, all is put together to an organic and intimate symbiosis that embraces you and takes you to places you’d never expect.”
“C’est juste les murs qui changent (’its just the walls which change’) is an allusion to Jim Jarmuch film Permanent Vacation, with this feeling of drift, this detached glance which graze abstract.
Behind the series of tracks which make the album, there is a will to create an introverted and detailed music, carved in the almost nothing, (micro) daily mirror, a music for the inner ear where equilibrium is to be reinvented.
Between evocations of melodies and rhytmic prances, an holded electronica scrapes with the nail end dirt and memory and slack acoustic sources and numerical languages .”
“A gentle flute motive introduces us to the world of Quest.Room.Project from Russia, and one might at first expect a relaxed listening experience. But by the time more voices chime in, it becomes obvious that these spotlights are going to be swallowed by shadows of tragic compassion. ‘Room Number: Fiducial Banality’ is organised in 4 parts (one could as well define them as movements, because there are some key themes occuring throughout the entire release) and each of them features a room with distinct acoustic characteristics:
‘The reason for surfacing’ appears like a shadow of a doubt that gradually turns into overwhelming certainty. Almost inaudible at the beginning, ‘Assemblage’ soon escalates to several emotional outbursts, before exhaustion will take its tribute in ‘Possesion’ and create a haunted, threatening atmosphere. As reminiscence of the beginning, ‘Combined Exercises’ begins with a flute solo and continues to pick up previous motives to escalate them to a wall of sound. Finally the dissonances wither away and make room for the last remnants of the ever occuring flute theme. A cycle has been completed and we are at the beginning again…
Bogdan Dullsky, the creative head behind the Quest.Room.Project, describes his intentions on the project’s website as ‘a search of space for the life leaving for borders of habitual linearity.’ But ‘Room Number: Fiducial Banality’ doesn’t attempt to descibe a solution to break free: It’s left up to the listeners themselves to recognise their personal ever returning patterns of life and change them by their own strategy. Or - as Bogdan concludes - as an attempt to live by some own rules on which borders it is possible to breathe freely”
“A 25 minute chord consisting of the mechanical sounds of a four track tape recorder, a slot loading cd-rom, a floppy drive and an external hard drive.”
“Angel Galán signs the 5º delivery of this netlabel. This incipient figure of the electronics of Madrid presents us a new work that begins with a track called ‘funcomputer,’ a retro minimalist track that brings us smells of other epochs but with a sound of our days. Besides it comes accompanied by two other remixes of hotter cut, the first is focused on the dance floor and the second, ideal for moments of abstraction. This is one of those cases in which an apparent simplicity in the composition manages to create the results expected. Congratulations and spirit for following launches!”
“Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the violence, the word and the action. While violence hides behind many faces, sex remains its favorite one. Violence devours all that it touches, its voracious appetite is rarely satisfied. However, violence does not just destroy, it also creates and forms.
Mesdames et messieurs, soyez les bienvenus à la violence, le mot et l’action. Alors que la violence se cache sous de nombreuses apparences, sa préférence reste toujours pour le sexe. La violence dévore tout ce qu’elle touche, son appétit vorace est rarement satisfait. Cependant la violence ne fait pas que détruire, elle crée et façonne en plus.”