EDASI - Die Lügenrächer

The Dark Side of the Moon - The 8-bit Album (2011)

Pterodactyl Squad

8.2

/Chiptune, 8-bit, Conceptual, Experimental electronica, Console music, Tracker music/

Comment: So now it is done. The Pink Floyd`s classic album Dark Side Of The Moon in the full format is covered by chiptune artists like Bit_Rat, Khades, Videogame Orchestra, Echosignal and many others. More concretely, the music on this release was created using sounds from various old games consoles including the Sega Mega Drive and Nintendo Game Boy. By depending on the special sonic characteristics of chiptune sounds, however, the cover versions do sound more rigid and austere, though, on the other side, it has more acid-filled/psychedelic angle in comparison with original ones. An interesting try nevertheless.

Dmitriy Rodionov Experience - Learn To Keep Silence From Trees (2009)

Circlesandlines

9.0

/Experimentalism, Ambient, Avant-garde, Dark ambient, Musique concrete, Avant-industrial, Ambient drone/

Comment: Different subgenres of ambient meet drone meets sound effects-samples (pounding metal, hazy moaning, reverbed metallic sounds, avant-electronics) meets concrete sounds, all of this is forged off by the Russian experimental musician-guitarist Dmitriy Rodionov. Of course, difference on the stylistic level could not have made out any sense if there were no interesting patterns (looping sounds, repeated motives, differentiated guitar playings) and tensity at all. Especially great momentums can be found out at Transformator. On the contrary, this would be a lopsided recommentation regarding the greatness of the whole album.

Our Ceasing Voice - The Inevitable Fall

Hox Vox - The Wanderer (2011)

Hox Vox

Jamendo
Bandcamp
Lastfm

9.1

/Progressive rock, Avant-prog, Sound collage, Crossover, Avant-garde, Jazz, Latin music/

Comment: Gianluca Missero, a prog-head from Venice, embarks on The Wanderer from an ironic point of view - with samplings by Iggy Pop`s Passenger pouring it over with sound effects and a speech line. Upon it the clear-cut cuttings and sudden starts of progressive rock chords and rhythmic revel will be brought forth, including the details from latin rhythms, funky bass thudding, jazz-hued interventions and electronic undercurrents. A hectic business as usual. Just 5 tracks, yet much enough for a spectacular ambience to be evoked and marvelled. Although the whole is aesthetically multi-layered, it is seamlessly elaborated and subsequently accomplished indeed.

Mirabilia - Sümpaatiline õudus EP (2011)

Bandcamp

9.6

/Experimental indie, Psychedelia, Singer-songwriter, Art-pop, Indie pop, Psychedelia, Leftfield, Space pop, Krautrock, Avant-pop, Indie folk/

Comment: Dallas was a cult combo from Tallinn, Estonia, and was considered as one of the most prominent Estonian (if not the most well-known) indie pop names in the ending part of 90`s (they released the last and self-released output Delay Lama in 2003, though, after being on hiatus for some years before it. By the way, some days ago were their seminal albums Raj Kapoor/Sleeper`s Entertainer re-issued under Seksound). The band which was apparently influenced by Stereolab, blending indie rock tunes with bossa circulations, fairy-alike orchestrated progressions, psychedelic electronica, some dance vibes, all in all, making it out as a beatific pop group anyway. However, Holger Loodus, their leader, made comeback with the project Mirabilia in the mid of 00`s, having released the album Log In Eye (Seksound). In any cases, the follow-up Sümpaatiline õudus EP is a 4-track issue being named after and using the text of Charles Baudelaire`s Horreur Symphatique as well. He is assisted by the members of now or previously existed acts like Galaktlan Project, Kismabande, Chance, and Sinine, all in all, playing out a very solid set, indeed demonstrating himself as an exciting singer-songwriter, who incorporates besides "usual" indie guitar sections the elements of dynamical psychedelia, catchy alt-folk, krautrock-esque experimentalism, variable sound effects and space contexts. Indeed, it may resemble Dallas at times, yet it is an obvious leap upon the next level.

Pablo Akaros - Unis par les cliks (2006)

Edensonic
Archive.org

8.0

/Tekno, Techno, Club dance, Remix, Minimal, Progressive, Minimal/

Comment: A 4-track brainchild of this profilic Spanish-based club music gearhead reflects upon those dodges and beat manipulations so characteristic to the middle period of 00`s. However, it is an example of bouncing yet minimally fluttering, repeated shapes-relied techno-tekno blended sets, which is intersected by progressing, acid-filled synth brooding at times (Mikro Punto). On the other side, though, it is an insertion into more elemental and warped, spaciously blasting avant-techno realms, for instance through the Catkin Bay Remix of the track Mikro Punto by Jesse Somfay.