- Ambient
- Drone
- DIY
- Electronic music
- Lo-fi
- Dreamwave
- Drone pop
- Organcore
- Mood music
Comment: just
discovered that Blackpool musician Neil Scrivin`s both albums
Twenty
Years On Ben Nevis, and
Tomorrow`s World are uploaded at
Bandcamp, both of them are remastered and are available in tape
format being now closely related to such Blackpudlian imprint as
Fonolith. However, my intention is to review it as a bit in the
discography of Rack &Ruin Records, a record label reflecting upon
an interesting microscopic sonic space at the end of the 00s, and the
beginning of the 10s. Rack & Ruin Records had been heading by the
Englishman Dean Birkett from 2008 to 2011 whose taste was DIY
friendly while experiment orienting. There was up enough noisy indie,
peculiar folk-based issues, clumsy lo-fi and bedroom masterminds,
warped electronic and deranged ambient-alike stuff. If to name only
some artists I would like to denote such artists as Gnomefoam,
starstarstar, Tropical Australian Stinger Research Unit, Zgress, Chad
Golda, Patrick Hussey, If The People Were Paper, Tyson Brinacombe,
Hipster Youth, Dog Bite, Cody England, Gnouli Monsters, Vincent
Lillis, The Macadamia Brothers, Lean Horse Marathon, Frost Faire,
dessktop, Andy`s Airport Of Love, Chimney Fish. This album of 14
compositions which will clock in at a 35 minute is a sublime drift
within droning ambient coated electronic music where the listener can
perceive dreamwave-tinged seeds to appear. It is almost (indie) pop
music but I have to emphasise the word almost. It is being always
admirable if electronic music is produced in dreamy mode (to do it
one hs to surpass the mechanical, machine-drenched nature of it). In
fact, such sort of sound would mostly get popularized some years ago
after the recent release thanks to such artists as Oneothrix Point
Never, M Gedded Gengras, Steven Hauschildt. All of that is the
contemporary counterpart of Kosmische Musik where adorable vibrations
and otherworldly beatific drones are followed by one another or
superimposed on eath other. While listening to it you do not need
nothing else for your fortune. It sounds like going backwards the
past you could find the future from it waiting for you. Originally it
was released in 2007 yet at Rack & Ruin it was released one year
later.
