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1/31/2019

Porzellan – Mountains Cycles (2008)




  • Experimental electronica 
  • Ambient 
  • Minimal techno 
  • Abstract
  • Glitchtronica 
  • Avant-electronica 
  • Drone

Comment: It is said that sit down, close your eyes, listen to the mountain's birth, listen them rising, remain there forever. Indeed, it is a fine introduction by their French imprint Abyssa into this 12-track issue where silence, as it is said, is the most beautiful instrument. Indeed, nature is something unique and monumental and an artist's ambition to relate to it through his/her oeuvre it could be an immense challenge in any cases. I am convinced that an artist's fancy to record natural sounds to convey them to other people with intention to bring nature to their apartment through loudspeakers it used to be a naive, fallible idea. Because nature is an environment with an innumerable amount of sounds, perceptions and dimensions which all together establish a singular, unrepeatable phenomenon. Of course, if an artist's purpose is closely related to mix it with artificial sounds and subsequently synthesise something transgressive then I am going to say yes. This album is the latter case. This set of a 39 minute is an austere and minimal glimpse into the heart of an electronic genre where the basic algorithms are not unveiled only but also magnified in front of us. The examples are fine – one can hear swaying drones and agitated ambient shards and minimally pulsating techno vibes and roughly droning impulses.