11/20/2012
Isaak - Remember EP (2012)
9.2
/Tech-house, Club dance, Afrobeat, House, Electro-house/
Comment: this batch of 3 pieces is issued on Prozent-music which does mean approaching to the kind of club dance music. The first track John is influenced by sunshiny and happy afrobeat vibes, the other ones are more technical, more hypnotic house music-centered propulsions which reveal their more murky shimmer and electro-hued touch. In a nutshell, Isaak`s release is solid and sublime worth to give a try.
Xesùs Valle - Gently Annoying (2012)
9.3
/Abstract, Experimental electronica, IDM, Microtonal, Glitchtronica, Glitch ambient, Avant-garde, Experimentalism/
Comment: Xesùs Valle is a knob-twiddler from Galicia, Spain whose current album of 12 compositions consists of glitchy beats, rough bass thudding and more or less microtonal frequencies, abstract digitalized chirps and twitters, some ambient-affected appearances and noiseful progressions within it. Sometimes it is emotionally evocative and even obsessive (full of glowering repetitions and minimal shifts within it). It is a sophisticated and intriguing issue of basing on algorithm-induced analogue and granular synthesis. In a word, it is a consistent result.
11/19/2012
Martiini - Virr-varri ähvardus (2012)
9.1
/Lo-fi, Home recording, Spoken word, Psychedelic, Experimental folk, Ambient, Organic electronica, Noise, Experimentalism, New Weird Estonia, Avant-garde, DIY, Anti-folk/
Comment: the artist and sound experimentator Martiini hails from my hometown Tartu, Estonia. His 8-track album is a quite unusual issue in the context of Estonia because of containing weird experiments which used to extend from cagy ambient/electro-acoustic textures to more tumultuous folk and organic electronica tinged coils and noisy psychedelic explorations tapped out on a keyboard or guitar and channelized through filters, effect devices and machines. Indeed, his instrumental (with one exception called Psaiko & Martiini lindistamisest) soundscapes are charmingly lopsided and warped filled formally with cellar aesthetics and anti-music business statements. In addition to it I recommend to seek out such Estonian lo-fi/experimental groups as Tuljak, Kago, Kreatiivmootor, EDASI, NE! (by the way, it was a project where Martiini was involved in previously)
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