c0ld l▲k3 - Lanceton Ice Factory, Magic Hour (2011)

Parafago

7.7

/Witch house, Drag, Experimental electronica, Avant-garde, Weird pop, Plunderphonics/

Comment: In fact, for all of those people who have erlier made acquaintance with c0ld l▲k3`s oeuvres the recent issue makes up some surprise though. It sounds like a skeletonal approach of witch house-alike madness. A bleak, abrasive soundscape, which seems to be running on digital hisses and dust, does make strongly sense. Yet, within it there are some lightest moments as well. For example, Robocop makes itself out as a fine instance of afrofuturistic/voodoo funk mongrel. Or Detroit 9000, which does have strong references toward the seminal scenes of Detroit club music.

Due Samoani - Early Tapes (2011)

Parafago

9.6

/Avant-garde, Krautrock, Kosmische musik, Synth prog, Noise fusion, Experimentalism, Power pop, Weird pop, Psychedelic, Avant-rock, Progressive rock/

Indigenous Peoples - Indigenous Peoples (2011)

Parafago
Bandcamp

8.7

/Experimentalism, Avant-garde, Minimalism, Avant-industrial, Dark ambient, Illbient, Ritualistic, Non music/

AnalogNoiseMaster The Aural Enthusiast (Parafago)

AnalogNoiseMaster`s aesthetics and ideology seems overtly to hark back to those days when full-electronic scoped krautrockers kicked off proceedings on repetitive sonic patterns and developments of their inner spaces in the mid of 70`s, for instance, if to come over to the workouts by Conrad Schnitzler and Cluster. The 9-track set is relied mainly upon propulsive and abrasive sounds, sometimes lopsided by having subtle swayings from one channel to another or sheer proto-industrial/old school industrial music alchemical experiments or producing slightly dream-alike fabric layers above those hard cored lookouts. Beside krautrock it can be considered minimal music as well, more detailly, if to consider the austere supplements of analogue/modular synth-based whimsical chords and overthrows. At times it will be exploded into noise-infused rhythms and brown noise-backed examples (noise techno?!). For sure, the ANM`s recent brainchild is ebullient, playful, and fruitful, all in all, full of aural fun. Check it out the other issues under Parafago Records as well, however, this Italian label has developed into one of the most solid experimental music records nowadays already.

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9.5

c0ld l▲k3 - °∆° (Parafago)

The appearance of the Italian label Parafago was highly welcomed in the ending of the previous year having revealed an interesting mix of peripheral and whimsical electronics which at some of its points is related to witch house/haunted house/drag appearances. For instance, the second release in the label`s discography is issued by c0ld l▲k3, which is probably the best known artist in the roster. So far c0ld l▲k3 has got some attention with his/her previous accomplishments in the circle of blogs closely related to witch house/drag hype. Indeed, I have no idea about who she/he is but I have experienced his/her excellent touch of sound.

By obsessed with murky, industrial-infused sonority the recent case is related to a 16-minute track which is fulfilled with propulsive shards, layer changes, (over)shadowed borders, delay effects and stomping beats. Being properly channelized, balanced and dosed for the impression will overwhelm a listener in the first place for sure. And it makes the difference on its own.

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9.3

Park Bench Trauma Nix (Paragrafo)

My pleasure is to announce that the new label Parafago (obviously from the South America) has been available since the beginning of December, having reached for 3 albums to be released already. In any cases, its first notch by Park Bench Trauma (stupid yet witty name, isn`t?) is bounded up with stroking contradictions and peripheric sonic manifestos. 11 tracks could just be summed up as a mashup activity, for instance, reminiscent of the vast scale of sample/stylistic exploitation by Stock, Hausen & Walkmen. First off, although it consists of 11 tracks the time is quite limited for. Once again, as it is cued yet it is a very strange mess-up veering from electroacoustic/psychoacoustic/old school industrial/witch house-drenched nihilism and austere sound art to likely irony-filled sporadic pop numbers of classical music-based avant-garde, latin rhythms, spoken word, and electronic pop. No doubt, one of them The Neon Bible is a great pop standout, though I don`t know is it the original oeuvre or beatific outtake from elsewhere. Indeed, the anonymity of PBT is its distinct sign, thereby giving no possibility for different kind of side-effects to be surfaced sometime. In fact, there is just the case about music regarding its genuine position to be retained.

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8.4