- Post-industrial
- Lo-fi
- DIY
- Avant-garde
- Experimental pop
- Art music
- Experimentalism
- Electronic music
- Leftfield
- Alternative
- Outsider house
- Jazz
- Crossover
- Post-punk
- House
- Experimental electronica
- Avant-pop
Comment:
if I can remember for the right way once there existed such an
imprint as Milano, Italy-based Paragrafo Records which was reclaimed
as having focus on weird, electronic and experimental music. One of
the artists coming out from there was Berlin, Germany-based
Mogadiscio Ensemble. Unfortunately almost all the traces behind the
imprint are gone (just a couple of issues are uploaded at Bandcamp)
though fortunately the combo is up there at Bandcamp to provide an
immense set of 38 tracks. The amount of the compositions is big
enough to write a solid column about it. First of all, it is huge
enough to get enough material to feed your ears and brain. More
profoundly, the average track within it is quite short of being
approximately 2-3 minute long and containing a shitloads of diverse
ideas. From old school industrial synthesised layers and rough yet
vivid rhythms, deliberately clogged-up progressions of the lo-fi and
DIY culture, appealing outsider house numbers, off-kilter, outsider
jazz induced developments. It may resemble a bit an early Cabaret
Voltaire which had provided different impulses and ideas on
industrial and post-punk to further progress into a wider audience
appealed compartment, more profoundly to trod seminally on dance
music, post-disco, proto-house music. At times it chimes as if being
channelized through some shitty filters and cables. Yet the result,
however, is very elegant. On the other side, the title does have a
clear hint at Aphex Twin`s
Selected Ambient Works
85-92 which similarly did provide an episodic coincidence with
the ambient style. In fact, there is no classical ambient structures
within that whole, there are up only some fragments of reminding of
the style. However, there may be behind a methodology of
deconstructing the style. Anyhow the result is a top predator.
