- Post-industrial
- Avant-garde
- Dark wave
- Electronic
music
- Drone
- Experimentalism
- Dark ambient
- Electro-acoustic
- Psycho-acoustic
- Leftfield
- Illbient
- Neoclassical
- Noise
- Experimental
electronica
Comment: it is one of the most voluminous
if not the most voluminous release having ever been appeared at RMH.
It clocks in at a 197 minute (based on the set of 24 tracks) which
exceeds more than 3 hours of pure music. The reason is actually
simple – it encompasses all the sounds having been produced by the
artist. The status of the combo is unknown due to health problems,
and collaborative disagreements between the members. The only
constant member behind the project has been Tim Van der Schraelen
from Antwerp, Belgium, and the members also have been Mattia P.
(Italy), Theofil Tsiolakakis (Thessaloniki, Greece), and Joseph
(Athens, Greece). In truth, a couple of tracks are added as the
oeuvre by Drowned In The Sewers (a collaborative act between Tim, and
Theofil). Contingently I tagged the music as post-industrial (among
many other tags) because it is a contemporary example of industrial
music though by its attitude, approach and characteristics of sound
it may even more remind of early old school industrial and noise
music acts like Zoviet France, for instance. Second, it also comes
very close to neoclassical and dark wave artists because in some
tracks the soundscapes are loaded with ominous and depressive seeds
and even sickening milieus reflecting upon the shortness and decay of
the human being`s life. Indeed, that has always been a moral
statement of such sort of music. Given the extent of time, and the
nature of music the listener can be very sure to be flooded by
intriguing sounds and obscure and morbid moods of different kind.
Experiments with disparate timbres and varied rhythms. And you should
be warned again – it is very far away from an innocent fun. It more
a kind of music providing you a stark accompaniment while walking
through a catacomb or a graveyard. Such sort of sound (I mean noise
music) is universal in a way because it used to incorporate so many
sounds within it (lo-fi, spoken word, sample-based
music/plunderphonics, electronic music, drone, improvised music,
ambient, electro-acoustic) and while needing no any further
categorization and explanation. It is more about the method rather
than about certain sounds. The style is being an all-devouring
phenomenon. The prodigious issue both by its physical, psychic and
intellectual extent is a part of the discography of Etched Traumas,
the imprint headed by the same Joseph being mentioned above.
