Full album by this obscure project playing a personal form of concrete/ambient/goth/industrial. Released on the Italian Alampo Records in 2010 in a limited edition of 71 copies as CDr.Strange enough it is not available on the Alampo Records Bandcamp page.
Alampo Records was created in 2001 to release on CDr music from Criopalmos and related projects. Previously the samemusicians released on tapes as Lanzoni Records, Bolgia Folk, Noir Tapes and NecroNovi.
Long and interesting double CD compilation covering a wide range of artists playing abstract,experimental,industrial and ambient music.
No Type is a Canadian netlabel in the experimental music scene since 1998and this sampler is their first non-MP3 release.Packaged in a cardboard folded sleeve inside a separate cardboard cover. reports quite a few info about the artists included. (official webpage,bandcamp,archive.org)
Psychick Warriors Ov Gaia is a project of the Dutch electronic musician Reinier Brekelmans. Formed in the early ' 80, they came to light only when they converted to the "ambient house" scene with the single Exit 23 (1991), strong with a heavy beat and the voice of Timothy Leary that murmurs "return to the source ".
Their art progressed with the individual Ov the Maenad (1991), which mixes world-music and techno, and Out Now.
The album Ov biospheres And Sacred Grooves (Kk, 1992) was in the ORB's ambient dance music vein. (The album contains eight tracks distributed over four tracks.)
The Challenge (eight minutes) presents a soft techno and veils of African polyrhythms, moved by Bubbles Electronic Linkage (starting at the minute 7:56) omits all the electronics and disintegrates those polyrhythms in the long wasteland of scattered noises of the Tides (starting at the minute 12:15).
Anathema Ov Jean Jacques Derrillard (first song of the third track, about seven minutes) is instead a grubbing concert of subliminal music for noises, "treated" sounds and electronic buzz, from which the second part of the Challenge (at seventh minute) takes body, a kind of psychedelic soul deconstructed in a cubist manner, and then the Key (to the minute 14:17), a sort of paleohistorical Lambada, and finally the exuberant Batucada of New Edge Mantra (retail 20:36). The last track is a remix of eleven minutes of the single Exit 23. The album was taken from the monumental single obsidian (20 minutes), which was inspired by the first Klaus Schulze and the ambient music of Brian Eno. On the album is the second track (i.e. the fourth track), lasts only seven minutes and resumes the "African" techno with an electronic melody string. source: https://www.scaruffi.com/vol6/psychic... -
Derlist is a confusional state of mind, the man left at the mercy of events.
It is blood gushing forth from an injure, a scar unable to be healed.
It is an exactmoment after which everything is not like ever before.
Words are un-necessary, none of the above can be mentioned that way.
Everything is dark and empty, an unheard scream, it is like going adrift losing yourself where no one ever will find you.
It is the state of mind of those who lose their minds.(from Alampo Records webpage)
Alampo Records is an Italian label focusing on ambient and experimental electronic music(info from Discogs)
Formation from Holland (Tilburg), specialised in blends of
deep techno, subtle trance and ambient soundscapes, mostly redefining
the adjective 'tribal'.
At the end of 1992, Robbert Heynen left the group to concentrate on his solo project Exquisite Corpse.
PWOG went through different line-ups and after a long silence
re-emerged in the 2000's with a remix compilation and a few
appeareances. They dissolved after an final performance at Incubate
2016.
Tim Freeman, Robbert Heynen and Reinier Brekelmans started a new project immediately afterwards; SUMUS.(from Discogs)Facebook, Bandcamp
Formation from Holland (Tilburg), specialised in blends of
deep techno, subtle trance and ambient soundscapes, mostly redefining
the adjective 'tribal'.
At the end of 1992, Robbert Heynen left the group to concentrate on his solo project Exquisite Corpse.
PWOG went through different line-ups and after a long silence
re-emerged in the 2000's with a remix compilation and a few
appeareances. They dissolved after an final performance at Incubate
2016.
Tim Freeman, Robbert Heynen and Reinier Brekelmans started a new project immediately afterwards; SUMUS.(from Discogs)Facebook, Bandcamp
All music by:
dAS
Edward-Ka Spel
Frans De Waard
Ninah Pixie
Philip Knight
Recorded at TeKaSky Studios in Nijmegen, Netherlands, late October 2018.
Ninah first prepared her collection of sipsi reed flutes, before bonding
at the studio Crumar organ (also a Pixy!), with all it's stuttering
(broken!) idiosyncrasies.....
Frans conjured textural movement by mixing multiple cassette players and I-Pad.....
dAS experimented with contact mics and sound boards, feeding his computer to his looper....
Edward conducted a ballet of custom voice samples and played software synths.....
Phil surfed the aether-static world of circuit bent radio, and powered up the analog synth armoury.
The recordings were mixed by Frans, and the sound mastered for CD by Edward.Cover artwork by Phil...and much thanks to Astrid, and to Sascha.
“Revolutions In The Head” represents the almost
transcendental result of “Discipline In The Studio” as members of The
Big City Orchestra, Legendary Pink Dots And Frans De Waard (Modelbau,
Kapotte Muziek and much more) combined to create a stream of 60 minute
soundtracks for a TV station in San Francisco .
If that sounds like a recipe for chaos, then think again. The
concentration involved was almost terrifying, but the satisfaction
displayed when that clock hit the magical 60 minute mark seemed like a
glorious release.
All the music here was recorded in The Silverman’s Attic studio .
Das And Ninah of Big City Orchestra instigated the project and flew to The Netherlands for these sessions.
The first hours involved them, The Silverman and Frans while Edward
Ka-Spel joined for the last part of the penultimate session and the
final hour.
Edward had literally just got off the train from London, tiptoed
upstairs, unpacked his keyboard and various devices, connected the wires
as soundlessly as possible and found his patch in the cauldron. The
“Hellos” were delayed as only 30 minutes had passed of that particular
musical voyage.
When the music was over, there seemed to be a general consensus that
this meeting of minds needed to be heard by a wider audience. A big
thank you to Frans for the hours he spent editing to make this release
possible.click me
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The Stone Tapes is the project of Ninah Pixie and dAS from Big City
Orchestra, Edward-Ka Spel from Legendary Pink Dots, Frans De Waard and
Philip Knight.
A mix of interesting and accomplished personalities can be a tricky
terrain but the whole album is a gem. Starts with strong synth lead in
"Trapped in the Wall" - a good start - then moving on to hauntological
narrative of voices and prepared sounds with a bit of radio waves in the
next track.
"Groundbyte" is pretty noisy track of sound sculpture - abstract and raw.
"Late 4 Assembly" is somewhat magical arpeggio of wonder - lightweight and sounding like a trance soundbox.
These are but a few of the tracks that open up a great album where all
the participants nicely jumble up different pieces of the puzzle they
create collectively.
A souvenir, a gem, something that is both rare and unique enough to be remembered more than well.
This is a unique collaboration between dAS, Edward-Ka Spel, Frans De
Waard, Ninah Pixie and Philip Knight calling themselves The Stone Tapes
(an unlikely combo of The Big City Orchestra, Legendary Pink Dots and De
Waard). I’m unsure if this is a one-off project but Revolutions In The
Head sounds stunning and nu-psychedelic. It’s trips the mind with
blurred voices and siphoning synths, deep breathing, transistor radio
frequencies and plenty of leftfield spirit.
Tracks like Groundbyte make rings and reverberate into new modified
shapes. The watery trickling like a late night shower permeates into the
darkness. While some of these folks may have worked together in the
past, as a unit they bring their alternate worlds into focus by finding
(un)common threads. It’s sometimes switched-on, dazed but never
confused, combining drone with understated industrial knob fiddling.
Snaking Down Bourbon is a drunken jam fusion, a mish-mosh of orchestral
warp and aching metaphor. But wait for the sizzle of The Clock Always
Stops At Zero to find its light. Between static and harmonization is the
unknown, and that’s where they find themselves, in the grind, afloat.
Just in time for the liquified ambient ending which is deftly haunted.
Kid606's music is similar to the work of his friend and colleague Lesser, as well as hardcore and IDM acts such as Atari Teenage Riot, Autechre, Mr. Oizo, and Matmos. He is primarily inspired not by his electronic contemporaries, but by his love of the industrial music, death metal, and industrial metal of the 1980s and 1990s, particularly bands like Godflesh and Napalm Death.[1] His music is known for its high tempo breakbeats and liberal use of noise and sampling,
as well as its punk aesthetic, uninhibited genre-mixing, and irreverent
sense of humor. However, he is equally adept at creating more serious
tracks that often reside in the realm of ambient and glitch ("Parenthood" from Kill Sound Before Sound Kills You and the entirety of P.S. I Love You being good examples).
Notable releases by Kid606 include Don't Sweat the Technics (VC140: 1998), Down with the Scene (IPC-7:2000), P.S. I Love You (MP93: 2000), and Kill Sound Before Sound Kills You (IPC-46: 2003). He collaborated or participated in the groups Flossin, Spacewurm, Ariel and Disc.[2]
In 2005, he put together a band with a drummer and guitarist called Kid606 and Friends.(from Wikipedia)
Notes
All
songs on this album were created with analog source material (analog
synths, AM/FM radio, microphone) then processed on a computer, then
mixed and mastered to two-track analog tape.
The album cover and title are both a reference to Big Black's album Songs About Fucking, of which Steve Albini was lead singer and guitarist. Also, all of the track titles are anagrams of "Miguel De Pedro", Kid606's real name.
Issued in a clear tray digipak style cover. The shrink wrap has a sticker on the front.(from Discogs) click me
Nice and old CD compilation introducing a bunch of great acts playing various genres :EBM, Experimental, Industrial, Ambient, Martial, Indie Rock and more.It came out on the German label Dossier,label set up in 1985, focused on experimental and electronic industrial music, now defunct.
In 2012, Tomoroh Hidari will release his light absorbing ambient monster
"Some Stars Not Yet Black Holes" as double 12" on Record Label Records.
Due to the extreme mass of this project, laridae was able to utilize the
caused divergency in space-time, to release the spin-off album "The
Black Star Variations" even BEFORE its own source release.
So, we invite you to swap the Star of Betlehem with Hidari's Black Stars of dark ambient and wish you all a merry saturnalia!
"Tomoroh Hidari encapsulates its rugged outer shell composed of tethered
wiring, low bass rumbling and an industrial pulse as it enriches the
core with atmospheric and rhythm bending skills. Each derivation
compliments the other as glitched life forms merge to the surface just
as quickly as they dissipate. Originally intended for live adaptations,
“The Black Star” collects itself and breaks down into five enriched
pieces that are both mechanical and inspired in shape."
- Igloo Magazine
One of the quietist starts to an album to come through my front door in
quite a while. however, this first piece builds into a chaotic
assemblage of disembodied voices and simple but effective electronic
pulses, added to this is the sound that could be a heavily treated
marimba but probably isn't. the title track on this disc is a beautiful
piece of atonal electronics whose morphology has been executed
exquisitely. the spatiality has to be admired, i'm listening to this on
speakers but i think it would be an excellent listen through headphones.
this track alone is over 20 minutes long and it never tires or seems
drawn out, every minute has been utilised to the full... there's six
tracks in total on this disc and none are 'fillers', each and every one
of them stands out on their own merit. a very well accomplished album
(particularly for a debut) and highly recommended." (from Cheeses International)click me
'Musicians have come together to contribute their talents to a cause that we all find to be dear to our hearts, the people of Yemen and their wellbeing. The people of Yemen have been exposed to the horrors of war,
one that has raged on for the last five years. As a result of the war,
the country’s infrastructure has been dismayed, with the majority of the civilian population left exposed to hunger, disease and homelessness.
We all need to do our part to assist those in need. We offer these recordings as our way of helping. With the purchase of our album, all proceeds will be contributed to two charity organizations that are working on the ground in Yemen, Mercy Bakery & SaveTheChildren.org.
You will be able to enjoy our music of love with the knowledge that you
brought some comfort to a Yemeni caught in this senseless violence.'
(Jamal Najjab)
For further information concerning the crisis in Yemen, go to:
www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-29319423 bit.ly/3isRwPd
CYCLIC DEFROST:
A gorgeous collection of music from artists who have donated their music to assist people on the ground in Yemen.
As you’re probably aware the people of Yemen have endured five years of war decimating the country’s infrastructure and leaving the majority of the civilian population exposed to hunger, disease and homelessness. Not to mention the dangers of COVID-19.
It was compiled by Dutch sound artist and composer Michel Banabila, who
has enticed everyone from Rutger Zuydervelt aka Machinefabriek to Anne
Bakker, Rapoon, Pierre Bastien, Christine Ott, Radboud Mens, Stijn
Hüwels and even Cyclic Defrost web editor Peter Hollo (Raven) to
contribute pieces. There’s some really great music on here. Particularly
from artists, we’d never heard before. (Bob Baker Fish)click me
credits
released July 3, 2020
Artwork by Huda Abi Farès.
Compiled by Michel Banabila.
A special thanks to:
Naseela & Zaman Amdeeb,
& Marlon Wolterink.