Barthol Lo Mejor - For play Ep (2011)

Barthol Lo Mejor
Lastfm

8.8

/Electro pop, Alternative, Breakcore, Club dance, Robo pop/

Comment: this is a powerfully bouncing and drilling, totally fuel-filled 4-track EP by an Estonian electro musician (he is educated as the semiotician) who has been active since 2005. While the EP is highly flame spitting prima facie it seems to be austere due to its methodology (because of being subjected to the control of artificial intelligence). Eleganz und dekadenz.

M1hk3l - Pattern Box (2011)

XLR

8.8

/House, Techno, Tekno, Psytrance, Drum and bass, Tech-house, Club dance, Dub-tech/

Comment: this 11-track album comes out from XLR, an little Estonian label. These long-running notches do merge together brooding techno and tekno. At times it is a sort of suffocating club/dance, sometimes inflected enough to run on dreamy, deep techno rails. Of course, there can be met some exceptions as well. The Pattern Of Chaos functions to bounce through drum and bass and dub-inflected reflections. Or Carpet Chill which is a light-hearted house sequence which onward gets involved in kind of psytrance undulation. Smooth Mod does display joyous bubblegum-ish beats shimmered with cosmic beats and a little pitchbent electronica behind it. An intricate release indeed.

Microcobra Micropopcorn in our heads (XLR)

Microcobra is a 8-bit/chiptune activist-musician from Tallinn, Estonia who had previously released three albums under the labels such as Qulture Production, RUSZUD, and Drill. Micropopcorn in our heads is released under the Estonian label XLR and shows up his affinity toward retrodelic music and old game consoles, also being very keen to samples of such kind of tracks having their origin date from the 90`s or the Soviet era. However, you can sight of drifts having a fuelled drive through smart, camp-y and sometimes slippery taste as well. But it is not the matter in the first place actually - his progressions toward agressive rhythms including some flirt with jungle-paced feeling resulting up in some good impressions (8 Serdec (Telliskivi Hard Mix) ). In fact, though, in the ending part I get a bit of tired riding on it. No doubt, his first release Please, play with me (2008, RUSZUD) is used to sound as his best one continually.

Listen to it here

7.4