“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.”
“Different artists were asked to submit material of a dark/disturbing nature. The resulting tracks explore these themes through dark ambiance, noise, lo-fi electronics, and sound collage.
The compilation begins with the droning ‘14k scumbag’: a resonance of distorted synths and insect-crackle. Next, ‘Swed_Fl’ lures us into the darkness with its deep bass and cheerless ambiance. Belgium’s Roebin de Freitas delivers the circuit-bent noise of ‘Trailblazers Anthem,’ which is followed by the Merzbow-like assault of Rotted Brain’s ‘Misunderstood.’ The next two tracks, ‘Battle Ready’ and ‘Rumr’ feature lo-fi electronics and misfiring drum machine patterns.
Turmoil returns us to the darkness with ‘Auditory Hallucinations,’ a night-time walk through an unfamiliar landscape. ‘Waxing Elephant’ shifts and jostles like a carnival ride gone haywire, while ‘Armaments’ sounds like a cheap video game being eaten by a distortion pedal. Aptly named, ‘Transmissions from the Asylum’ creates a disturbing atmosphere where disembodied voices cry out in the silence. The haunting ambiance of Wavespan’s ‘The Bridge’ evokes a sense of being followed, as footsteps echo amidst a background of dark drones and chiming metal.
Mystified expands his netlabel discography with ‘Instability 2′: an unsettling arrangement of shifting electronic tones. The compilation finishes with the urban field recording of ‘Drugs and Our Youth,’ by label head Jon7.”
“‘Clinical experience, and also carried out practical researches show, that simultaneous use of two hearing aids allows to distinguish more precisely sounds and, that is especially important, better to understand speech even to people with serious loss of hearing of one ear and full deafness of another…’ (from ‘Binaural prosthetics’)
* This citation has no attitude to the given compilation.”
“Field recordings, dark melodic electronica, mysterious spheres, psy- chill, but also quite rocking tracks form the compilation’s content. Bad Comfort (Seldomtype, Retinascan), Mr. Incognito (drop bass network, dirty dancing, sleepy city), madstyle (Goldtears, Kahvi), Modul (no-response, nishi) …
Guest-appearances by Phundamental (Lithauania, binkcrsh), Solar Sound Network (Dresden), Skies Unlimited (Cologne) and Christian Björklund (Sweden).”
“a mini-EP based on some field recordings; its called Lansdowne (a shopping mall where they were recorded); were performed live using Audiomulch”
“The most clear in language happens not a word, and tone, an accent, rate with which a number of words is said, — to tell more shortly, the music disappearing under words, the passion disappearing behind music, the person disappearing behind passion, that is all that cannot be written.” (F.N.)
“Ekwals first release is a collection of 4 tracks by Deer aka Martin Hirsch, featuring a blend of fieldrecordings and experiments in techno and electro. While the first three tracks explore various aspects of the four- on-the-floor paradigm, the last cut, Stationary, features an excerpt from a living room livejam with Source Records founder Move D. The Track Delay EP was mastered by John McCaig at PanicStudios, Seattle. Deer has previously released as “random noise productions” on Neo Ouija and Hippocamp. His website can be found at http://www.regicide.org.”
“Brian Grainger Field Recordings.”
“Field Recordings.” [editor: thanks for the elaborate description!]