₦ihilis₮ – untitled (2018)

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• Illbient 
• Electronic music 
• Breakbeat
• Breakcore 
• Techno 
• Experimental techno 
• Dark ambient
 

Comment: this 7-track outing unveils like an ominous, mystical thing slowly surfacing from the bottom of darkness. Upper layers are imbued with a bright, glaring light, the sort of light brought to us by Lucifer which in turn are amplified by sultry, very tight broken beats in the frequency of breakbeat and techno. The listener can perceive a shitloads of intriguing progressions inside the rhythms and outside on the flank of it like a thousands of legions were dancing around the backbone of The Fallen Angel. This great issue is a part of the discography of MNMN (aka Monumental) Records.

Alzar - DrOwL – Nymph of the Alien (2018)

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• Electronic music 
• Alternative dance 
• Psychedelic 
• World fusion 
• Ethnotronica 
• Breakbeat
• Ambient

Comment: this bunch of 15 compositions is dedicated to strangers/aliens/different kind of life forms. To those living beings having no deal with the human race and the planet Earth. However, contacts with a stranger may enrich our life. Otherwise it may result in annihilation of the human race given that species with lower intelligence have no potential to reach other planets in the galaxy. At least having had a fantasy about the stranger would result in one fine album. Musically it is a sultry blend of psychedelic synthesised whiffs, mid-tempo driven ethnic-tinged rhythms and intriguing electronic roundabouts and arousing loops. At times songs are sensualised by mystical female chanting as if mysterious supernatural creatures from within the Russian forests in fairy tales. So yeah, (horrendous) strangers can come from inside us and from our fears as well. Furthermore, given that we may be even more horrendous than our opposite ones. However, it is just a rough, very generalized overview of it. In fact, it embraces a hundreds of combinations in sonic and rhythmic texture. There are different depths, there are different intensities. It is search for balance between gravity and volatility. The impressive issue is a part of the discography of MNMN Records.

Tripnectar – The World Is Yours (2017)

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• Electronic music 
• Chillstep 
• Alternative  
• Chilltronica 
• Sampledelic 
• Trap 
• Dubstep

Comment: Tripnectar is a producer from a small town from Siberia, Russia and The World Is Yours gets a third place chronologically in the list of four releases so far. The 9-notch outing consists of relaxing beats even if some more acute frequencies and angular patterns are incorporated into it, and truly atmospheric layers filled in with synthesised orchestrations, tectonic dubstep inflected bass thudding and slowly rotating phrases and reverberant effects toward the rhythmic backbone. At Left-Right the listener can hear more outlined trap cadences injecting more life to the whole. One of the favourite pieces of mine is South thanks to the murky, scurrilous monologue from a movie and a wonky rhythm to keep shuffling thereafter. All in all, Tripnectar is on the right track. The solid release is a part of the discography of MNMN Records, a Russian imprint.

Rastr – Tales Of the Druid (2017)

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• Industrial rock 
• Breakbeat 
• Alternative rock 
• Electronic 
• Alternative dance

Comment: this bunch of 6 instrumental tracks is an instance of industrial rock. More profoundly, it does mean heavily clanging drums and slamming programmed beats which are up there to show direction and provide the back-up to incisive and harsh guitar riff-based attitude. Due to a typical industrial example it is very straightforward and emotion oppressive, it is more about showing off its muscles and power. Due to an atypical industrial rock release it involves lots of torrents of broken beat massacres. Just a couple of sequences are aligned with one another to prevent possible greyish zones and deviations in between. It`s now your turn to decide is it either positive or negative value to go out from the set. The issue is a part of the discography of MNMN Records.

Must Wave – Suffocation (2017)

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• Hardstep 
• Electronic music 
• Rave music 
• Dance music

Comment: this set of 6 tracks is a profound blend of rough rhythms and piercing synths. As if a drift between the rave culture induced dance music and more industrially influenced electro sounds. On the other side, in principle, it can say the whole chimes like a huge composition with minimal variegations here and there. Only the beginning of a track called Flaw is a bit different due to being atmospheric and volatile which later will be mixed up with heavily stomping beats. In a word, let`s find out those differences from this set. The issue is a part of the discography of MNMN Records.