N-Qia - Haze EP (2012)

Pharmacom

9.2

/Chamber pop, Indietronica, Folktronica, Alternative, Electronic pop, Crossover/ 

Comment: this 3-piece issue involves some rough, heavy punching rhythms, fairy female vowel effects, lofty violin chords and bulging orchestrations thus making up enough magic-filled reciprocal moments. In a word, the whole is an astonishing one which can be compared with the likes of Efterklang, Bed., mùm, Bjork, Amiina. So you can breathe to these sounds made up by the Japanese musical project.

Ohrchitekt - Snakeseed (2009)

Pharmacom

8.8

/Breakcore, Glitchtronica, Electro pop, Electro, Industrial electro, Brekabeat, Breaks, Club dance/

Comment: there are up 14 tracks by Ohrchitekt (Carsten Lehmann), a Germany-based producer whose main concept is to evoke breakcore-charged conceptions. Indeed, Ohrchitekt`s pieces are very tight and galvanized ones, with no pause for resting time; those breakbeat/breakcore-centered pieces are filled in with the elements of billowy electro, glitch-filled smithereens, industrial-drenched noise, stutteringly running sonic effect-related madness. It is though for dancing at full speed and just for listening and enjoying. Very good indeed.