Coma Cinema - Baby Prayers (2009)

Bandcamp
Lastfm

9.0

/DIY, Chamber pop, Alternative pop, Singer-songwriter, Experimental indie, Lo-fi/

Comment: this is the debut album by Mat Cothran aka Coma Cinema involving 14 tracks just spreaded out over 27 minutes. It contains exclusively demo staples recorded between 2005 and 2009. Indeed, the album provides lots of hints at Cothran`s further DIY aesthetics tightly dabbled with electronic undercurrents and curious elements of singer-songwriter-ism and baroque pop-esque sweeps. More profoundly, it is elegantly rough due to its lo-fi guitar fingerpicking which is interlaced with compelling orchestrations, droning synths and dreamy vocal lines. In the first place his aesthetics reminds of Mark Linkous aka Sparklehorse.

Max Cavalerra - Der Mensch und seine Gänsehaut

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dreKu - In Homine Natura (2003)

Oftanova

9.2

/Cybergrind, Cut and paste, Grindcore, Brutal metal, Cybermetal, Sound collage, Hardcore electronica, Experimental metal, Hardcore, Crossover/

Comment: this project obviously comes out from Chile, South America having been active since the end of 90`s. By analysing the titles of notches and the coverprint of the particular album there can almost be sure about a fact the release is militantly arranged and channelized for. More profoundly, there are up 8 short-running tracks which are designed for to be certain battlefields for elliptical guitar noodling, punching a little brassy/corroded programmed blasts/machine gun-alike shooting and threatening bass lines. Furthermore, it exploits a huge array of samples (spoken word snippets, electronic bits, brass forays) to variegate and provoke the soundscape. On the other side, it pretends to be a bridge between metal/grind and hardcore (and) electronica/cybercore and, if you wish, sound collage/cut and paste. Ultimately, the result is a mesmerizing one. Let`s call it guerilla metal.

Pavol Ambiont - Irrhythmia (2012)

Foundamental Network

9.3

/Ambient dub, Robo pop, Dubstep, Spoken word, Tech-dub, Avant-garde, Club dance, Crossover, Dub-tech, Experimental electronica/

Comment: this album involves a shitloads of tracks/snippets spreaded out over 45 minutes, however, recorded in a timespan of 4 years, more particularly, from 2007-2011 by Pavel Niakhayev who is known as being a member of many other musical collectives either. Stylistically it veers away from cosmic ambient dub vibrations and lush dubstep progressions to more exact, club-centered endeavours and even bubblegum-esque techno/robo pop glimpses and concrete sound and spoken word-fringed mystical rays. There can be drawn parallels upon the likes of Randomajestiq (his compatriot - from Belarus), Kraftwerk, The Orb (of course!), Sidharta (Andrey Kiritchenko), Alio Die, Gennaro Molino, Koalips etc. In a word, the issue is truly profound, subtly variegating and suggestively contemplative.

Radere - The Earth, Laid Bare (2012)

Basic_sounds
Bandcamp

9.7

/Organic electronica, Epic, Ambient, Ambient noise, Post-rock, Crossover, Experimental electronica, Musique concrète/

Comment: similarly to other releases on basic_sounds this issue by Carl Ritger contains just one track/composition, though, spreaded out over 35 minutes. It is highly organic involving the elements of electronica, ambient, microscopic noise, and experimental/post-rock, however, all of these stylistic elements are seamlessly interlaced with each other. Furthermore, all these aspects in turn are infiltrated with the seeds of found sounds/field recording. It brings forth a bunch of pleasant consequences - it is soothing, it is epic and thus even exulting. At times it seems to be more the burning of a campfire than the sequences of deliberately treated chords. By kindred souls, however, it can be compared to the likes of slept., Labradford, Tudo de Volta, Tim Hecker, Ecovillage, Clark Nova Portable, Beth Kleist, Machinefabriek, Loscil, Pan American and many other ones. What a stupendous flow! In a word, it is an instance of a God`s trace.

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