T1nn1tuzzzz – N​.​R. [x​]​no [ ]yes (2016)

Malware

• Noise 
• Abstract 
• Avant-garde 
• Non-music 
• Experimentalism 
• Improvised music 
• Electro-acoustic 
• Leftfield

Comment: this is an uncanny issue of two long-running compositions, the first of them (Lado A) sounding like a tribute to all those bacterial monsters living in the toilet. Indeed, as if depicting sonically all these microscopic monsters you can see in the advertises of Domestos, for instance. Crazy and frightening, isn`t? Indeed, it is a rough, abrasive and shrill audible matter made up of brown, black and white noises and then all the elements being tightly intermingled with each other. Yes, you can perceive different shades coming in and out of focus. It can be said formally it is an example of pure anti-music though it is more vivid and full of life than most those pop fabrications you can meet in the charts because it predominates both physically and mentally over the listener. However, behind the chaos you will see eventually a sublime structure and order. The second track (Lado B) is more subdued and static, indeed, it could be said it is a fine tribute to the electricity, the movement of its particles, the flow of an invisible yet ravaging. The outing is a bit of the discography of the Brazilian label Malware which started to appear approaximately one year ago.

Gabrielle Agah – Elètrica (2016)

Malware

• Electro-acoustic 
• Avant-garde 
• Experimentalism 
• Microtonal 
• Musique concrète 
• Field recording 
• Sound art 
• Sound poetry 
• Micronoise 
• Non-music 
• Abstract 
• DIY 
• Lo-fi 
• Leftfield 
• Experimental electronica 
• Primitive music

Comment: undoubtedly it is a mind-boggling issue though while listening to it for the first time it might take some minutes to align yourself to the austere and somehow buried level of this 10-track issue. It is partly music and partly not in many appearances. Firstly, the artist from Sào Paolo, Brazil exploits recorded field sounds and recites and chants her poetry in an awkward yet suggestive way. Indeed, it could be tagged as lo-fi music but the tag for figuring out the artist's intention and goal does make a little sense. Given that there are represented infantile melody snippets being mixed up into hiss laden soundscapes which would pop out and then lay out from unknown sources then the tag primitive music might even be a more proper definition. For a music listener, to listen to this issue is like being a part of everyday life where the ups and downs come in succession and more brighter moments are varied with more depressing ones. The Brazil artist's music is a subject to an intersection of sound poetry, warped electronic effects, microscopic noises and hazy flickers. In a nutshell, this intriguing issue is a part of an intriguing Brazil imprint, Malware.

T1nn1tuzzzz – Metalli(ɔ)a (2016)

Malware

• Noise 
• Harsh noise 
• Brutal metal 
• Avant-garde 
• Non-music 
• Avant-metal 
• Black noise 
• Leftfield 
• Trash noise

Comment: firstly, after the first chords of listening to this one-track issue (clocking in at an almost 10 minute) I realized it would be better to turn the volume down for the sake of my ears (indeed, the trajectory of the oscillator in my music player is as active as an indicator in the block of nuclear wastes). Additionally, I don not recommend for bourgeois people to listen to it because it brings out a mental illness in you. You`re admonished! The project comes out from Brazil demonstrating itself as an indicator for the country. More profoundly, the annihilation of forests (greetings to Western companies over there), environmental problems (pollution), the Zika virus, outstanding crime activity, an economic recession, the corruption scandal of their president. On the other side, Brazil is being and has been one of the most outstanding music scenes worldwide, including in the underground scene by now. Although the art is much higher than the mundane live, the point of mine is that good music needs controversies and a filthy environment and polluted soil to bring forth sharpness to express an artist’s mind with great(er) fervour and ardour. There is up one of such sort. As you have already pinpointed the ending embarks on with a torrent of vibrant harsh noises though almost implicitly revealing what will be happening in the final part. More concretely, it progresses slowly into the hammering, blackened metal and noise-tinged span where Metallica could sound as an easy listening act. The US-based heavy metal/trash metal juggernaut was mentioned by me because the title is called a somehow reversed Metallica`s title form, Metalli(ɔ)a. In fact, in the final part the music of the legends is represented briefly coming out of overwhelming trash noise to move atop. Otherwise it has much more in common with Japanese harsh noise and metal combos, with the likes of Boris, Gerogerigegege, Fushitsusha, Boredoms. Get this metal/noise gem for you being issued under the newborn Malware Records (it is a great imprint in addition to many Brazil-based ones). In fact, it says more than a thousands of words in total. At least during this brief span of time.

Satanoise – No Music For The Films (2016)

Malware

• Sound collage
• Hauntology
• Ambient
• Cover
• Vaporwave
• Sampledelic
• Musique concrète
• Soundscape
• Seapunk
• Radiophonic art
• Experimentalism
• Avant-garde

Comment: this 7-track issue of 17 minutes only could be tagged as an imaginative soundtrack of a motion picture which is imbued with wondrous and beatific sounds and sonic collages where any sound does mean actually more than one could perceive at the first glimpse. There are up a bunch of eerie symphonies and hiss and microscopic noise drenched passages which used to go by to entertain you in a ghastly way. Moreover, the artist wields the sounds of musique concrete and radiophonic art to create disorder in. At times Satanoise`s aesthetic coul be considered an glimpse of ambient music though it is a distorted one with hints at seapunk and vaporwave and hauntology, for instance. The issue is ended up by a cover of the Suicide`s classic Ghost Rider which is an exclusive choice relative to the context to bring to fruition. The great release is a part of a very exciting Brazilian label, Malware.