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6/02/2019

Olympic Smoker – Noises And Echoes (2009)




  • Electronic music 
  • Alternative dance 
  • Breaks

Comment: undoubtedly this patch of 13 tracks is not an easy fare to be described although musically it is an enjoyable ride. Olympic Smoker is an artist from Russia who did start making music in the mid of the 00s. Lots of spiky rhythms, low frequencies and different tempos used to surface and fade away. Clangour is traded for silent progressions occasionally (even a couple of piano balladry stylised snippets are represented over there). I would like to call it post-breakbeat/post-techno/post-jungle music because it contains vague echoes of the aforementioned styles yet surpassing obviously their limits and thriving toward a wider comprehension. Some advantage of the album is a partial withdrawal at greater extent from the annoying contemporary post-dubstep and autotune/poptronic influenced (electronic) pop scene. There is no need to waste time on the aesthetics of softened artists and thin machines. All we need is more power, more jungle, more sweat, more pain, more sincerity, more natural feelings and organic consequences! We need more Barry Whites, Fausts, Sun Ras, Aphex Twins, Kraftwerks, Pulps, Joy Divisions, My Bloody Valentines, Scott Walkers, Johnny Cashes, CANs, The Smiths, Sonic Youths, Carpenters, Authechres, Lee Hazlewoods, Nina Simones, Diana Rosses! We need more obsessed characters and especially natured mavericks! The release is a part of the discography of Chinese imprint, Bypass.