scal.g - "Open World"

Calm electronic music with rock influences - very good! (8/10) Calm electronic music with rock influences. Many tracks remind me of Moby, but I don't say they are just copies. Rather than that, both artists have similar approach to creating their music and they both use the same pieces of puzzle - just place them in a different way to compose a different picture. In brief: very good album for both electronica and rock fans. [mirror @ archive.org] | [Myspace] SUPPORT INDEPENDENT ARTISTS If you like this album and you can afford it, consider supporting the artist by making a donation on this page - use the button "Donate" in the upper left corner.

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Bownik, Adam Certamen - "Mars Global Inspiration"

Nice ambient electronica (6/10) 'Mars Global Inspiration' is my newst album in a Berlin School-style. The music is enriched with sequencers, background pads, solos and singing vocoder. Nice ambient electronica. Especially fans of space music, the sound of 80s and such artists as Klaus Schulze and J.M. Jarre should be delighted. However, turn off the player before the 4th track starts. It's a terrible song with a singer's voice transformed with a vocoder. The voice is very ugly and on top of that the singer has a terrible English accent. Avoid at all costs. [Artist's website / Myspace]

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Rastadeush - "Hard Beat Dilla"

Hard techno, heavily influenced by house and disco (5/10)

Newest full length release of our most controversial artist! This guy refused to cooperate with people from electroclash.pl, he was made one of the best Michael Jackson (when king was alive) and Madonna cover that we ever heard .. not the end .. this bonker young hooligan prepared a great never released remix for one of well known polish electroclash/power-pop group called yummy cake. if you're thirsty of dirty, street electro, ghetto tek sounds in the horrorist mood, this release is waiting for you...

This is a hard techno album, heavily influenced by house and disco. Too much influenced for my liking... While it is professionally crafted, it just felt primitive with all those tiring marked beats and stupid generic vocal interludes. However, 4 tracks stand out from the crowd, showing the true talent of Rastadeush:
02 - No One Knows
05 - Hard Beat Dilla
09 - Dark Symphony
12 - Billie Jean (Rastadeush remix)
Check them out.

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Hearing, Harry - "Little Green Martian" [SP]

Vocoder kills electronic stars (1/10) Hey! you though that only musicians from berlin make good minimal electronic sounds? Test newest release in 49 catalogue! Harry Hearing it's our new brilliant purchase straight from poland! Little green martian is his first official released stuff. This short single is essence of all the best traits contained in beautiful minimal stucture. Deep, heterogenic spaces, multilayered, far-outed beats, multithreaded, untypical structures, modulated politicial involved texts ..you need more recomendation? Harry Hearing is a pseudo of Piotr Gajcy born 20.10.1988 in Poland. As a child he was interested in instruments instead of toys. He started his music production from program called Music 2000 (for Playstation). Subsequently he changed it into computer composing. In 2006 he started to play also as a DJ. In performances, he connects his own productions with sophisticated motives. "I have to connect everything which was the best in my work... And show what I can afford to do... Be someone, whose music will not be closed in one template". Generes: all electronic (chillout, downtempo, progressive, minimal, techno, dnb, dub and his own mbc...)

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Well... It seems I overuse one particular title in my reviews... But what can I do, if it fits so well?

It would be very good minimal electronica, if it wasn't covered and destroyed by a vocoder vocal line. :-/

I know I'm not objective as I particularly hate vocoder and consider it to be an evolutionary dead-end. But then again, it is me who review this track and I don't like it. Every review out there is filtered by the critic's taste. And for me this is a flop. If you like vocoder - go for it. You'll love it. All the others - stay away.

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Radiosonde - "Try Again" [EP]

Interesting electronica (8/10)

Try Again from radiosonde on Myspace. Radiosonde is Brian Judkins,born in Nashville,Tennessee in 1972.At age 14 began taking drum lessons. Played drums for several bands around Nashville. In 2003 I gave up playing drums and wanted too try something different in my musical journey.Having been a fan of different types of music for along time,including different styles of electronic music.I decided too try writing my own style of electronic music. Taking influences from other bands/artist that I have listened to through out my life so far,but trying too stay original. I have two music projects at this time. The one you're checking out at the moment (radiosonde) and my other alias,the new slumber. I have also gone by the name "Lyra". Have performed live in the Nashville area under,the new slumber and lyra at Ruby Green Art Gallery,Caffeine CoffeeHouse,and Springwater. Also I have had songs played on Vanderbilt's radio station 91.1 on the show, 91 Mixdown under the name Lyra on October 12th 2003. Have recently been played on the Black Wolfe Radio podcast as Radiosonde on Episode 2 and Episode 3. Three songs combined within one track. Each one equally interesting. The first and the second are rather calm electronica (the first with a more experimental side to it). The third is more energetic electro. They are all well crafted, with good melodies. Really nice work for fans of straightforward electronic music. The album has been released by the 49manekinow.net netlabel and is available for downloading at archive.org in mp3 format.

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paniq - "Neurons: Fire At Will"

Well crafted techno... but someone should ban vocoder (8/10) "Neurons: Fire At Will" is an instrumental electronica album, containing songs written between 2004-2005. It consists of four sections, separated by style: a.) uplifting/quirky, b.) straight four to the floor, c.) funny tracks, d.) ambient and downtempo. Enjoy. It's a very good techno album. As the artist says in the description, this recording contains a mix of tunes in different styles. But that's not a problem. All tracks are creative, production is flawless - just read the other reviews. So why such a low rating? The answer is: a vocoder. Someone should ban this. I really hoped that the most pitiful invention in the history of music, which is able to kill even the most interesting tune, passed away in disgrace along with the 80s. I was wrong. Lately it crawled out of its grave and started to haunt different musical genres, scaring people with its decaying flesh and rotting bowels. I know some people like it, but for me it is pitiful. It has its place in Kraftwerk's tunes, but that's it. Really. We have 21st century, for Zeus' sake. Your song won't turn into another "Das Model" just because you use a vocoder. So don't. Save the mankind. Fortunately, only a few tracks on this album are vocoder-"enhanced", so I encourage you to check it out, cause except from this issue it is really good. Update: After re-listening to this album I came to the conclusion that the above review is too harsh. I still hate vocoder, but firstly - it is used only in two tracks and secondly - its use on these tracks is justified, because the artist tries to imitate the sound of 80s. Therefore, I raised my rating from 6 to 8. And once again I highly recommend this album - mixing so many genres shows how talented paniq is. From breakbeat, through 8-bit, plain techno, crazy and funny experiments in the middle up to the ending downtempo tunes - all is great. Every genre that he touches turns into gold. I dare him to try some Village People kitsch.

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