The Air Was Thick - Prototype 1.0 (2011)

Canata
Lastfm

8.7

/Alternative rock, Shoegaze, Noise rock/

Comment: Damian Hughes, Andrey Pavlovic, and Tom Peden from Wakefield, UK established TAWT after the demise of their old project Candid Squash, and Lover Octave. Indeed, it is their debut album where 32 minutes are spreaded out over 8 tracks and issued on the Japanese label Cnata Records. By and large, the trio combines glowering guitar lines with heavily stomping drums. The group can be compared with the likes of Smashing Pumpkins, This Lonely Crowd, Inverness, and Ride.

Acquired Syphilis - Big Titty Babe Begs For Orgasm (2010)

Dis-Organ-Ized

8.8

/Goregrind, Porngrind, Grindcore, Experimental metal, Brutal metal/

Comment: as you have already figured out this album is about earthquake-esque goregrind and slobbery porn. 12 very short extreme metal blowups are introduced with the snippets from porn videos. However, the album makes a huge impact on the listener because of ferocious energy pouring out from every bits and slots.

Clinker - Isolation

Cosmos Laguna - Karma Cleaner (2011)

Trash Can Dance

9.1

/Industrial electro, EBM, Industrial trance, Synth industrial, Alternative, Dark synth/

Comment: Cosmos Laguna is a brooding industrial electro act with apparent dodges by the side of trance and dark wave/synth music. Of course, the reference of mine must not be misunderstood. The album has nothing to do with the kind of cheesy trance acrobatics, though, some tracks show up weird dance-appealed vibes. Otherwise massively piercing beats and drilling electro forays are surrounded by wraith-alike veil and tight murky vapour. Behind this idiosyncratic project is Alari Keskla, a 33-year-old producer from Estonia. The album is released on the Estonian underground (CD-R) label Trash Can Dance.

elektrolandmusik - automat (2010)

Bandcamp
Elektrolandmusik
Archive.org
Lastfm

9.0

/Electro-acoustic, Experimental electronica, Acousmatics, Avant-garde, Toytronica/

Comment: elektrolandmusik provides a handful of compositions, made up of natural, repetitive xylophone-alike cuts and sequences wrapped up in loose electro-acoustic environments. Indeed, at times it rings like an explorative act on toytronic music based on the sounds of a modular synthesizer. The musician`s experiments resemble of the Finnish project Thuoom`s first album.

Dadala - Dreams (2006)

Dadala
Lastfm

8.9

/Improvised music, Noise, Experimentalism, Avant-garde, Weird pop, Post-industrial, No Wave/

Comment: RDunlop is an avant-garde musician who has been active since the mid of 80`s exploring the boundaries and realms of experimental music. On Dreams he takes on a wide array of genres and sounds, veering out both natural and synthetic, running across both sparse and overloaded ambiences. However, I am wondering how he is able to change those patterns permanently and seamlessly, being sometimes very relaxing through mellow jazz/downbeat standards and, on the other side, get involved in noiseful, soil-engorging mayhems. Or how he used to mix up pitchbent layers with found sounds or being obviously subjected to improvisatory algorithms. In between those extremities you can be a witness to the No Wave-alike explorations (reminding of Tuxedomoon, for instance) and malignant ambient.

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