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"Unequal house" begins this release. Low fidelity, out of sync distorted synths play, as if competing for space. One of them starts playing higher notes, and the other follows. The melodies become more complex, as they rise above the surface and then rest fo…
Tag: experimental
fernand – New Quantum-profundis-133
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“133-a” begins the release, with a fade-in of some noise (both tonal and not) crashing like waves while a synth-brass patch plays some melodies. The noise and brass interact, creating on one hand chaotic noise, and a sense of relative order …
die ANGEL – Utopien I
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Utopien I begins with “Epikouros”, which starts with a heavy, distorted, brassy pad that is soon accompanied by higher pitched bell-tones that play forward and backwards in a repeating pattern. A reso-sweeped synth joins the fray, and soon so…
Accidental Tones – Disordered
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This release by Accidental Tones starts with “Untitled A”, and the sound of water dripping and flowing with reverb on it fades in, with a deep rumble present as well. There is the sound of something being tapped occasionally with a large am…
Alan Morse Davies – Junk Shop Radio
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This album is the result of Alan Morse Davies recording the sound of him going through an AM radio when the power was out during a typhoon in Hong Kong.
“Hong Kong AM1” is the first track. First, there is the sound of periodic noise bein…
Prophétie Froide – Prophétie Froide
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Prophétie Froide begins with the track “Saut de mémoire”, which starts with a drone of harsh full-spectrum noise, interrupted a couple times by a split-second of silence, and then machine-like sounds start in the background, soon accompani…
Enearth – Daze
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Enearth’s Daze begins with “Intro: Time Zero”, which starts with quickly delayed beats which have a secondary delay effect on them for rhythmic effect. Over this, murky synth pads start accompanied by a repeating minor-key synth string an…
Bastian Void & Errant Space – Bastian Void & Errant Space
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In-scale sequences of synth tones play, and make way for a pulse-wave-containing patch which plays a melancholic melody. The sequenced notes play more chaotically, and guitar plays a chain of melodies which are obscured by the sequences of note…
Vanity Productions – Memories of Kazan
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“Polaroids (Feat. Tonje Terese)” begins with a fractured melody in a rhythm with an aesthetic of error, and then moves into what would seem to be a more pedestrian melody upon cursory listening, but is actually quite complex, using fracture…
Lowered – Arche (For Singing Bowls)
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A fairly low tone from a singing bowl plays, and after a short period is joined by another tone. Then, a singing bowl is struck and rings out over the two constant tones. After fading out and a short period has passed, it rings out again in the…