October 20th, 2006
AA #009 [monsieur connard - apnée cérébrale]
“Elaboré a Trinec (Czech Republic) durant l’été 2006.”
Archive for the Glitch category
October 8th, 2006
Tube #051 [ocp - sound check]
“OCP stands for Operador de Cabine Polivalente, an ongoing sound project by Joao Ricardo, a portuguese born world citizen. OCP has released before for the excellent half portuguese/half japanese MiMi Records and for the young but already great british Serein Net-audio Label. Joao Ricardo suits up his OCP moniker whenever he wants ‘(…)to develop uncommon sound textures / patterns / compositions taking different approaches, applying diverse techniques.’ He also produces as Pygar, together with his friend Hugo Olim. Some months ago, Joao submitted this Sound Check piece to Test Tube, asked me to listen to it and later to think about publishing it. Usually I like long pieces, yes, but this one got my special attention. This 55 minute track is not your typical drone-ambient- long-as-hell-track that makes you want to go to bed. No. Sound Check has many different personalities inside its shell, many different mood shifts. It has ambient moments, noise and glitch parts, beat sequences, everything you can imagine in the abstract electronics genre. Its sad sometimes, but also has its bright and sunny moments. Taking its title literally, it could be a sound check for Joaos latest sound database, a work in progress for something else yet to be born. But its already alive, trying to break the outside shell and mutate into that something else. One of my favorite sequences starts at minute 20, a funky electro/IDM driven dialogue that wants to pull you out of your chair and throw you into the dancefloor, but never makes the decision. Mighty, mighty sound check.”
October 4th, 2006
AA #008 [antanas jasenka - ultra z]
“Coming from Vilnius, Lithuania, Antanas Jasenka sculpts micro structures based on digital pulses and tonalities, creating tensions and their opposites on a post-enchanting ground where the computer replaced the cat to run after the mouse. [38min24sec / mp3 320kpbs]“
May 21st, 2006
SND #002 [amiable fellow - cross porpoises one]
“Keeping things nicely moving along, the second SND release is a neat little bundle of electronica from Berkshire resident Amiable Fellow. Cross Porpoises One seamlessly combines digital and acoustic elements to create a playful and engaging sound that extends across classic and modern electronica, with layers of diffused ambience, organic melodies and carefully constructed glitch rhythms. Expect more in the coming months…”
- we fear change
- kinkygirl
- like dust in the sunlight
- glimpse of shining path
- yes, i am bulletproof
- happy thoughts
May 18th, 2006
ZYM #008 [takeshi nakamura - easy listening]
“Takeshi Nakamura is back on zymogen for another brilliant work taking his sound to another level of complexity. This 6 tracks ep has been produced after Ordinary Days following similar processes of composition, always keeping a quality level near to the maximum and creating sonorities similar to his previous record without any loss of intensity. Takeshi accustoms us to pure geometric structures stained with digital rough sketches, sweet discords and harmonious glitches, but with these compositions he overcomes his strandards. Wonderful…can you find a better word to start this promenade through artificial landscapes? ‘I Sink’ moves from frenetic beats with hissing basses in constant evolution and slow pads expanding under robotic voices, a lesson of composition. The following ‘Cloud’ is an hypnotic sequence with cuts of a melody lost in reverbs wich becomes concrete into ‘Defeat’, a groovy declaration of digital pessimism, totally amazing! During ‘Particle’ an incredible flow of silicic acid will reach you neurons, floating high frequencies over a rough snares wich keep up the fragile structure of the beat. The conclusion of the ep is ‘Sundial’, a long evolution of a simple idea based on soft loops slowly submerged by an enormous flux of ultra-low frequencies and drones for an intense growth wich finishes in the same way it started like an infinite mantra; personally one of the best song created by Nakamura so far. With this work Takeshi shows once again his abilities to creating deep experimental music and we feel really lucky to have the possibility to release a work of this kind of quality…an ‘Easy Listening’ near perfection.”
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Ambient, Downtempo, Experimental, Glitch
May 12th, 2006
STMNET #004 [VA - interconnect]
“our fourth release ‘interconnect,’ is now available. included is a bizarre & unique electro production by deemah, a second minimal track by encrypted, two skillfully produced songs from our friend’s tatsu & zucchini @ bumpfoot in japan, a creative re-edit of andrew duke’s ‘carnival’ by athens based artist stefanos kourtis, a glitchy tech-house song from toronto’s jamie kidd, a stripped down, funky, minimal track from berlin’s kujoma and an abstract production from stratagem founder adaptive. enjoy.”
- zucchini - leaving
- encrypted - cipher
- jamie kidd - the grab
- andrew duke - carnival ( stefanos kourtis mix )
- tatsu - sunday afternoon
- deemah - one
- adaptive - inabstracto
- kujoma - amok
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Compilation, Electro, Glitch, Minimal
May 11th, 2006
CAM #093 [selfmademusic - 4_12am]
“Here’s a new ep from Romanian multi-talented artist Selfmademusic. This 4 track ep is an exploratory ride into different shades of aural and visual story-telling; a comic book provides us with perfect company to the noirish feel of his music. Just like his comic book, the music transports you to familiar yet slightly altered places; environments stitched with dark ambiences and suspensefull moments are overseen by delicate yet macabre violins, guitars and pianos, with glitch and retrigger creating waves of distortioned beatwork. Great debute ep!”
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Ambient, Glitch
April 30th, 2006
XGN #028 [martsman]
“Martsman returns on Exegene with two tight crunchy slabs of robot breaks. Since his debut release for Exegene, he’s been showing his glitchy expertise on labels such as Offshore and Plain Audio which have been greatly recieved. With more release on Breakin’, Counter Intelligence and more on Offshore it’s time we got him back for another round of distorted xeroxfunk for Exegene. ‘Roads’, which has been recently remixed by Sileni for Exegene (and is featured on the CD with Knowledge #66) starts off the journey with luscious ambience and echoed slices of glitched breaks. ‘Roads’ then moves into a tight rolling number with a deep but rugged bassline. A melange of mangledness twists up things before a funky little bassline bleeps away with a barrage of mechanical edits and cymbal smashes. The B-side ‘Blob’ takes the release to a more minimal level. Spacious 808’s lead the way over light pads whilst bleeps and plinks flow over a pounding deep kick. Slithers of glitches move in and out of the microbic blips and reverbed claps. Both these tunes definitely fit into a more daring set to change things up a bit.”