CD Feature/ Ulna: "Frcture"
Powerbooks for instruments: Flexible and funky 21st century electronica.
CD Feature/ Aranos: "Koryak Mistress stakes Golden Sky"
A shifting body of sound: Tonality is tweaked and tweezed into a slightly different form.
CD Feature/ Denis Patkovic: "Bach & Tiensuu: Goldberg - Mine Variations"
Beyond the Novelty factor: A new conglomerate, longer and even more mysterious than the famous blueprint.
Metal Visions International 2
A planet forged of steel: Exploring Metal releases from all around the world.
Vital Weekly 638
Frans de Waard presents the experimental releases of the week.
CD Feature/ The Ting Tings: "We Started Nothing"
Monstrously infectious: The Ting Tings want to shut everyone else down.
CD Feature/ Janek Schaefer: "Alone at Last" & "Extended Play"
Schaefer has long put his three-armed turntable aside: If hope could become music, this is what it would sound like.
CD Feature/ Damian Lazarus: "Sci-Fi-Lo-Fi Vol 2: Night of the Dark Machines"
This man keeps smiling: Lazarus thinks from the beat not from sound.
LP Feature/ Andrew Liles & Fovea Hex: "Gone Every Evening"
Everything is bigger: Incomprehensible loops outside one’s own control.
CD Feature/ OceanLab: "Sirens of the Sea"
Improves your summer experience: Slow, medium and medium-fast synth arpeggio percolation.
CD Feature/ Thelmo Cristovam: "Paisagens Sonoras em Õstrõ Hyija"
His most important album to date: Morphs complex acoustic phenomena into seemingly homogenuous pastures.
Vital Weekly 637
Frans de Waard presents the experimental releases of the week.
CD Feature/ Annea Lockwood: "A Sound Map of the Danube"
Stories from the river: An audio theatre of amazing plasticity.
CD Feature/ Lars Akerlund: "Ur/Volt"
Nonmusical associations: Dance as the physical equivalent of poetry.
Random Stabbings 36
July's round of interesting records, subjectively compiled by Eric Saeger.