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Lumisokea: “the physicality of sound, moving bodies and inducing trance-like states.” Interview by Orlando Edmonds.

Lumisokea are a Belgian-Italian duo based in Berlin. The first time I saw them was at MUTEK festival in Mexico City last year where they were shrouded in darkness, bar two white lights shining out …

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Ghost in the Machine: Vladislav Delay’s ’Multila’ – An Analysis by Orlando Edmonds

Finnish Producer, Sasu Ripatti, has released under a number of aliases, but it is as Vladislav Delay that you can find him at his most deconstructive. Multila (2000), his most important work, is …

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Multi-instrumentalist / electronic producer Reuben Ingall is easily one of the busiest figures currently operating amongst the Canberra music scene, whether it's under his Dead DJ Joke alias, perfo...

A review of my new album by Chris Downton for Cyclic Defrost.

...‘Eyelids’ opens things with blurred, digitally stuttered piano keys and subtly placed found sounds providing a treacherously fluttering backdrop for Ingall’s multi-tracked vocal harmonies, the sense of warmth and intimacy that’s generated gradually overpowering the fractured rhythms that tic beneath, the entire track even dropping out completely at one point....  read on

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Markus Mehr "On" - Cyclic Defrost

On, the second installment of a triptych of albums by German experimental ambient artist Markus Mehr, stretches for a sense of monumental form as is suggested by the audacity of envisaging such a series. After only a cursory listening it is hard not to agree; after longer listenings the very scope of the achievement of this album becomes clearer. It opens with the bombastic ‘I will make you love me’, waves of chopped up industrial noise thumping slow beats interwoven with static and string electronic trills moving through the air broken by an interlude of an eastern string section. Then a quiet track, ‘Flaming Youth’, breaks the mood and builds into a static melancholy with horns and a wide palette of discrete noise. ‘Barcelona Waltz’ moves very quickly from the quiet to a dense tapestry of effected vocals static, drone and synth washes with highlighted melodic phrases and breaks of environmental sound.

‘Only for a While’ begins as an isolationist ambient piece full of long drones that tend towards choral effect, the equal of recent work by Bvdub or Netherworld, or any of similar works on the Glacial Movements label. If not for a brief burbling glitch mid track its epic nature is constant and the second half introduces dystopic elements that cut into the sense of its formation as a monument. ‘Duck became a Swan’ is attacks of noise wide spectrum, controlled and layered, high pitch drones and a lone trumpet rendering a mournful melodic element, disjunctive strings and a low in the mix downbeat drum phrase. The combination of all the elements working against each other in full spectrum dominance makes it a highlight of the album. Then there is ‘Olympia’ a schizoid brief assault of interjected noise thrills against cut up beat making a minute of inspired madness. ‘Monks on the Beach’ has the general elements of ambient collage, monk chants, found sounds, field recordings, discrete rhythmic touches all seamlessly woven together. ‘Tunnels’ completes the album with piano tinkling, rounds of melody, static interjections, water samples and assorted instrumental embellishments along with moments of sharp attacks on the silence before closure.

Hidden Shoal have quite a gem in Mehr’s work, its vision of melding jazz, electronicia, noise, drone, ambient and experimental elements into a work that grows with their fusing into a work that resembles something monumental and classical in inclination. Anyone who enjoys William Basinski or Christian Fennesz will find this a welcome addition to their collection.

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The music is not going to change the world just yet, but there’s a good chance the world might seem to sparkle a little more for a few 3-minute bursts.

Cyclic Defrost on Dear Eloise's 7" releases

http://www.cyclicdefrost.com/blog/2012/03/dear-eloise-castlesong-for-her-tenzenmen/

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Nice review of our ambient release, Love In The Time Of Anticipated Defeat at Cyclic Defrost.

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...this debut self-titled album offers up the first fruits of their collaboration as Author, with the eight tracks collected here taking their aesthetic cues more from the smoky likes of The Herbaliser and Kruder & Dorfmeister...