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11/04/2018

Macchiato Funky – Bugella 20-50 (2018)

La bél

Free Music Archive

Bandcamp

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Post-rock
Indie rock
Alternative rock
Yacht rock
Art rock
Electronic
Funk rock

Comment: Macchiato Funky is a quartet from Italy whose line consists of such musicians as Michele Seggiaro (guitar), Massimo Ferretto (guitar), Nicolò Seggiaro (bass guitar), and Adriano Bossola (electronic & production). I would like to compare Macchiato Funky with Tortoise but the main difference between the combos is that Macchiato Funky`s music used to lean more toward yacht rock-ish horizons rather than flirting with jazz-y edges. Yet, the line between these stylistic characterizations is relatively thin. At times even funky rhythmic patterns used to drive the course (however, it is a bit more synthesised funk than the music of Pop Group, or Gang Of Four due to prominent role by Adriano Bossola). Similarly to Tortoise they use electronic layers and sonic effects around the pace in an adept and intriguing way. Otherwise, the music is an artsy alternative rock/post-rock example being issued on an Italy-based imprint, La bèl. Great album by any means.

11/03/2018

Radj – Bitolomaka EP (2017)

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Yandex

Illsound

Trip-hop
Sampledelic
Downtempo
Electronic music
Urban music
Cinematic
Nu jazz
Chillstep

Comment: this set of 9 notches consisting of sloppy decelerated rhythms, lone piano chords, and minor orchestrated chamber music fringes. Some tracks are adorned with spoken word snippets in Russian (obviously sampled from old cartoons of Sojuzmultfilm). It is a bit autumnal music with stylised sadness coming from Montrèal, Canada. One can feel invigorative chill flowing from the slots of it. At times it is so slowed down you cannot call it trip-hop anymore – it is rather chillstep instead of it. The exquisite outing is a part of the discography of such labels as Illsound, and Dusted Wax Kingdom.

Deophobic Necrosis – Persecution (2016)

Torn Flesh

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Death metal
Brutal metal
Grindcore
Goregrind
Crust punk

Comment: it is nice to be back again at Torn Flesh. Predominantly does it mean to experience something brutal and aggressive. The human being as a species is violent and for me as a fucking human being it is very suitable to float in a soup of death metal, grindcore, and crust punk (with verbal hints at killing, atrocities and other adverse things). Supposedly aggressiveness is closely related to the development of intelligence so for Western European people there is no chance to get survived while being exposed to the so-called soft values. With regard to it for almost every day we are exposed to bloody news about the collapse of Russia soon but such sort of news are profoundly fake. Do you believe in the collapse of a country who owns a huge territory with a fathomable amount of resources, whose population is high-spirited due to their religion and who don't give a heck to weird and weakening and frequently contrary impulses coming out of the Western side, and who own the optimal amount of aggressiveness to survive and develop further. That's called the evolution. The point of mine is that the Western world used to undermine itself from inside and through uncontrollable migration (which is caused by those who are elected by us due to wars being induced to get entrance to new resource fields. As you see it is a fucked-up closed circle). Actually Deophobic Necrosis hints at the conflict between Christians and Muslims thoughout the 16-track outing. Yeah, Deophobic Necrosis provides a vital and uncompromising whiff of energy which is needed to get out of a pink dream. You can also listen to it as an alleviating remedy to the closed circle hinted above.