30 November 2011

Turzbot - "Dronerysm"

Very good electronica (8/10)
Turzbot was originally founded as Polymorphic back in 2000. The music hasn't changed a lot since then. It is not that innovative nowadays as it used to be, but is more mature and more sophisticated. The project name has been changed as the old one was no longer unique. If you like pure, abstract IDM old school electronica give it a go, and you're gonna like it.

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Very good electronica, highly recommended to all the fans of the genre. It's fully instrumental, with broken beats and influenced by glitch. It's not focused on catchy melodies or beats, but rather on contrasts and creative use of strange sounds.

I have only one complaint - it's too short.

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29 November 2011

Fau - "Unwanted Machine Noise" [SP]

Nice techno (7/10)

Fau is a young producer from Poland focused on: techno, tech house, electrotech and similar genres. He says that he is better in producing music than talking about himself.

A short techno tune with mechanical, industrial feel to it. Nicely done - check it out.

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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Rastadeush & Mr. Nooze - "Split"

Mr. Nooze wins (6/10)

Mr. Nooze - single producer, dj from Gdynia in Poland. Inspired by french music scene, and produce music in this french style (especially remixes). There's not much to say... more to listen: Mr. Nooze at Fairtilizer

Split album consisting of tunes by two electronic music artists - Rastadeush and Mr. Nooze. Each of them is represented by three tracks.

In my opinion, Mr. Nooze wins. His tracks are much more interesting, intelligently combining breakbeat, minimal and 8-bit. Rastadeush delivers more straightforward techno, very repetitive and lacking creativeness. Mr. Nooze would get 10 points from me, while Rastadeush only 4. I would love to hear a full length album from Mr. Nooze.

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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28 November 2011

Residus Plasmiques, les - "Politiquement acoustiques"

Nothing special (5/10)
Amis auditeurs, ne vous surprenez pas d'entendre des instruments électroniques et électriques sur un album annoncé comme étant acoustique! N'oubliez pas l'adjectif ''Politiquement'' acoustique, et qui dit politique dit au moins en partie mensonge!

Musically - nothing special. Plain uninteresting rock.

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25 November 2011

FusionArt - "Details"

Very good trip hop (8/10)



Another solid series of deep sounds from Absys Records stable. This time, however, drum & bass gives way to a different type of music, usually defined broadly and encompassing genres like idm, ambient, breakbeat or dubstep, but at the same time always well-acknowledged by similarly different listener environments. We’re talking about “Details” LP – the newest album by the Polish producer collective known as FusionArt. Recently there have been some changes in the group – the producer duo has been joined by MC Susiah whose role is to soften the otherwise rough and austere tracks with her soft but spirited vocals, thus supplementing the already coherent whole by additional intriguing details, as it is the case with the deep, slightly metallic “Believe” or the dreamy “Details”.



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Rather calm electronica with instrumental part based mainly on breakbeat with some traces of dubstep and downtempo. The half of the album includes female vocals, adding to the dreamy atmosphere and justifying placing this work under trip hop label. Highly recommended to fans of intelligent calm electronica.

The album has been released by the Absys Records netlabel and is available for downloading at the netlabel's website in mp3 format.

24 November 2011

Laufer, Daniel - "In Between" [EP]

Very good electronica (7/10)

If you like to support the artist, you can buy this album for a few bucks on Bandcamp (with slightly better quality).
However, if you prefer to get it for free, you can still download it here. It's your choice, really.
Enjoy the music.

Very good electronica - nice melodies, good sounds. The only thing I don't like is track no. 6 "Shadows Of The Past". The singing is very very weak, with a terrible accent. I would recommend the author limit himself to instrumental music or hire a different singer.

If you like trip-hop and/or downtempo - check it out.

You can also obtain a lossless FLAC version of this album from Bandcamp for as low as 4 euros.

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23 November 2011

Residus Plasmiques, les - "Testament des banlieues, le"

Plain simple rock (5/10)
Groupe de musique alternative sarcastique
Plain simple rock - without any interesting features. Maybe lyrics are interesting (I don't speak French), but musically - an amateurish effort.

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