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SAFE HAVEN EP begins with the track “Stay Home”, with droning, tonal synth pads which are soon accompanied by the occasional pop. There is a brief burst of noise as connections are made, some bassy tones, and then another connection is made…
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Blear Moon – Expanding lands
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Flute-like synths come in and are pitch modulated, playing almost playful melodies with quite a bit of delay. Low string-like melodies play as the low-end, repeating, evolving, and then moving toward simplicity again. The flute-like synths stop…
Garrote – Valley of Knives
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“Valley of Knives” is the name of both this EP and the first track. As it begins, a few drum hits play in repetition, which leads to manic female vocal samples with reverb and delay on them accompanied by an instrument being played backwards…
Torturing Nurse – Validity
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The first side of this release is “Validity”. A full-spectrum, sustained blast of noise is played, with contortions of filtered, distorted resonance creeping up from behind it, which resolve in a bassy blast of noise, then return to their c…
Hermann Holsgr – Virtuell Weltanschauung
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“Wissenfiniti” begins Virtuell Weltanschauung, and periodic noise is made resonant, with the resonance being moved across the frequency spectrum, first fast, and then moved out of the range of human hearing. A low-end of noise is brought in…
Blear Moon / Cape Willoughby Road – split
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This is a split between Cape Willoughby Road and Blear Moon.
Cape Willoughby Road’s side starts with “Shipwreck”, which begins with a synth-pad chord, and soon some semi-periodic noise comes in. The synth pad swells to a higher volume, …
Weith – Weith
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This two-track release by Weith, which is self-titled, starts with the track “Menit” and begins with swelling synth horns, which are soon filtered, with a syncopated beat that starts with a fade-in with the cymbals and moves to the rim, and…
CV & JAB – Landscape Architecture
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The first track of CV & JAB’s Landscape Architecture, dubbed “Stone Circle”, begins with soft, reverb-laden piano playing, and then the clink of glasses can be heard. The sound of a car passing, and soon some birds chirping also accom…
Chris Child & Micah Frank – Tape Pieces Vol. 2
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As Tape Pieces Vol. 2 begins with the track “Distances”, a synth pad with a sustained major chord can be heard, with looping white noise in front of it. Soon, a bass drum being hit hard, then softly a few times, and then repeating this patt…
Hydra Transmitter – Early Favorites
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The first track of this album is “The Passage”. Almost frantic percussion plays, with a focus on cymbal and snare, and soon a highly distorted guitar comes in and plays a progression of several long, very distorted chords, half-drowning out…