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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…
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…
OPINION: Everything is beautiful, even ugly things.
Beauty is something that a lot of people have serious issues with. What we consider beautiful as a culture is often based on concepts which are filtered through ideas, which in turn might be part of an ideology, and by the time you get your beauty to appreciate its been, frankly, dismembered.
And yes, that beauty that you get is beautiful, in m…
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…