[ALT 12] Basic House ‎– Oats (Album) 2013

Basic House ‎– Oats
Label: Alter ‎– ALT12, Alter ‎– ALTER 12
Format: CD
Country: UK
Released: Oct 2013
Genre: Electronic
Style: Experimental, Noise, Techno, Drone, Ambient

Tracklist:
1         AR II     5:59    
2         Child Confession     8:34    
3         Interiors     1:35    
4         Est Oan     6:43    
5         B.G. Feathers     6:27    
6         Dry Contract     3:09    
7-15         (no audio)     0:54    
      Bonus Tracks
16         Time Table     6:55    
17         Nurse     5:58    
18         La Coccinelle     7:30    
19         C-Beat     10:00    
20         L-Wave And Comb     9:25    

http://boomkat.com/cds/818428-basic-house-oats
Opal Taper, Stephen Bishop's intrepid Basic House project is steadily becoming one of the most fascinating off-road electronic projects around. 'Oats', for Luke Younger's highly esteemed Alter imprint, places him in good company alongside textural and rhythmic explorers such as Jamal Moss, Helm and Damien Dubrovnik. It's his 2nd album of 2013 after the crumbling deconstructions of 'Caim In Bird Form' for Digitalis, and finds his sound at once congealing and diffusing with a unique sonic syntax. Textural decay demarcates its six tracks, flowing from the buckled tape loops and guttural bass thump of 'AR II' to the soiled grunge techno of 'Child Confession' by way of a trans-temporal fag break of porno lite keys and a gasping vocal fragment before heading back into the concrète workshop ambience of 'Interiors' to close the first side. On the second, 'Est Oan' features a chamber group of swirling shapes and acephalic voices, before the grotty expanse of 'B.G. Feathers' crackins with distortion before the sinkhole of 'Dry Contact' slowly swallows its contents in a gurgling muck soup. Like any good and properly *new* music, Basic House is breaking down convention and rebuilding new forms with each subsequent release...

[SP 011] No UFO's – Soft Coast LP (Album) 2011

No UFO's – Soft Coast
Label: Spectrum Spools – SP011
Format: Vinyl, LP, Reissue, White
Country: Austria
Released: 15 Dec 2011
Genre: Electronic
Style: Noise, Experimental
Mastered By – Helmut Erler
Originally released as Nice Up Int'l NU001, April 2010
Mastered at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin, August 2011.
First press on white vinyl, with subsequent ones on black vinyl.

Tracklist:
A1 Evidence / Century Park
A2 Vertigo (K. Alexi)
A3 Punx On The Promenade
A4 Broken Glass
A5 Freeze • Drift
A6 Untitled I
B1 Cajmere Dreams
B2 Archer Heights
B3 00/00/2010
B4 Duck Egg
B5 Fog In The Pavilion
B6 Soon Come Happy
B7 Why Be Something You're Not?

http://boomkat.com/vinyl/478176-no-ufo-s-soft-coast
Following that fine side for the UK's Public Information label, Konrad Jandavs No UFO's decamps to Spectrum Spools for a new vinyl edition of his debut cassette, 2010's Soft Coast. Though it has a clear and central debt to 1970s German electronic music, Jandavs pulls on various other influences - minimal synth, new age ambient, Detroit techno - to craft his hypnotic, pulsating synth-scapes. The weirdest tracks are the most rewarding: the beatless, almost Autechre-style techno of 'Cajmere Dreams' and the sly guitar drones of '00_00_2010', which makes us think of The Velvet Underground if they'd formed in '91 under the influence of E. For dedicated fans of reconfigured kraut and kosmische tropes, Soft Coast is beyond essential, but is singular and strange enough to deserve attention from the rest of you too.

[ABX 050] Haxan Cloak, The – The Haxan Cloak CD (Album) 2011

Haxan Cloak, The – The Haxan Cloak
Label: Aurora Borealis – ABX050
Format: CD, Album
Country: UK
Released: 2011
Genre: Rock
Style: Noise, Avantgarde

Tracklist:
1 Raven's Lament
2 An Archaic Device
3 Burning Torches Of Despair
4 Disorder
5 The Fall
6 The Growing
7 In Memoriam
8 Parting Chant

http://www.aurora-b.com/shop_EU_AB.php
*Thick card gatefold jacket* Beguiling, unsettling and deeply mysterious, The Haxan Cloak's eponymous debut album is a riveting experience. In case Demdike Stare hadn't inspired you to read up on the pre-1900 occult, the term "Häxan" is an old German word for witchcraft, a theme shared by the two artists besides their northern English latitude (which would technically intersect with northern Germany, geography geeks!). But for that, and the monotone artwork aside, The Haxan Cloak takes a very different approach to his craft, one rooted in his studies in sound art and more concerned with "the very real potential and power of the actual physical properties of sound" he can elicit from treated strings and primal percussion, and the space between them. His unrevealed, alchemical processes summon an immersive spectrum of ethereal drones and often shocking sounds, from the nerve-jangling, near-infrasonic subbass fluctuations of 'Fall', to the stereo-dynamic fata morgana of 'The Growing'. Occuring at the apex of the album, this astonishing track is a work of pure black magic sorcery, transporting us through a digital wormhole into shuddering, hallucinatory electro-acoustics and heart-quaking subs to a climax of percussion recalling both Zoviet*France and Scorn. Equally, when focussed on strings the effect is vividly arresting, like with the petrified drones of 'In Memoriam' or the sustained dissonance of 'Parting Chant', both achieving something more than just an evocative cinematic appeal. There's a more hallucinatory and abstract narrative to these compositions, which may be dissipated with leaden concrete imagery. The finely rendered mixing and dynamics create an illusory space all of their own, much akin to Raime's breathtaking gothic architectures, but probably more connected with the likes of KTL and Sunn 0))) overlord, Stephen O'Malley. A massive recommendation.

[DIGIV 006] Ricardo Donoso – Progress Chance LP 2011

Ricardo Donoso – Progress Chance
Label: Digitalis Recordings – DIGIV006
Format: Vinyl, LP
Country: US
Released: Sep 2011
Genre: Electronic
Style: Drone, Noise, Experimental

Mastered At – Dubplates & Mastering
Distributed By – Boomkat
Design, Layout – Lee Tindall
Mastered By [Vinyl Cut] – Loop-o
Written-By – Ricardo Donoso
All sound made with Korg MS2000R, Radius, MS1, Yamaha DX7, Nord Lead 3, Voice.

Tracklist:
A1 Chrome Decadence
A2 Klatu
A3 Baiting Disappointment
A4 The Deck Of An Ancient Ship
B1 Morning Criminal
B2 The North Quadrant (Ascension)
B3 Conditional Formatting (Descent)

http://www.digitalisindustries.com/digiv006.html
*Limited vinyl pressing of this excellent album where the retro-futurism of Leyland Kirby's "Intrigue & Stuff" series meets classic John Carpenter and the kind of squashed arpeggiated electronics Emeralds are so loved for. Initial copies come on gorgeous transparent green vinyl* The electronic obsessions of the U.S. underground follow the current somewhere darker and literally tranced-out on the first full length album of synth music by Brazilian ex-pat Ricardo Donoso. A background in jazz drumming and as member of avant-metal outfit Ehnare give little indication of what Ricardo has been up to in his own time, which probably couldn't be any further from those disparate styles. 'Progress Chance' is based on the "morning dance music" of raves which Ricardo visited as a youth, namely the Goan and Scandinavian strains of heavily gated and arpeggiated dance music, but he's removed the unwieldy rhythms to leave lushly pulsating patterns and the all-important chord changes which carried all the emotive weight, resulting in something quite unexpected and brilliant. Using only the choicest parts of what for most is simply a "cheesy" genre, Donoso manages to reminded us of Leyland Kirby's opaque approach with the 'Intrigue & Stuff' series or the psychedelic lather of loops in Diamond Catalog's 'Magnified Palette'. boomkat

RICARDO DONOSO - Conditional Formatting (Descent) from Moduli TV on Vimeo.

[Crónica 051~2010] Mosaique - Shattering Silence 2010

Mosaique - Shattering Silence
Label: Crónica http://www.cronicaelectronica.org
Catalog#: Crónica 051~2010
Format: 14 x File, MP3
Country: Portugal
Released: 24 May 2010
Genre: Electronic
Style: Noise, Abstract, Drone, Experimental, Hardcore, Minimal
Credits: Mastered By - Miguel Carvalhais

Tracklist:
1 Semendia 4:04
2 Axis Tilt 5:52
3 Ithom 12:16
4 Mundo 8:16
5 Typus Und Form 4:24
6 Ropea 9:12
7 Photon Hills 6:40
8 Fissures 10:40
9 Recoil 5:16
10 Tessian 7:20
11 Golden Vertical 6:48
12 Beasts 4:32
13 Gravity And Grace 14:08
14 Sinum 4:00

Following his 2008 release in Crónica, “Filare”, Jan Ferreira presents his new work “Shattering Silence”, 14 tracks totalling over one hundred minutes of music. Once again, Mosaique releases in the Unlimited Series and is available as a free download in either 320kbps MP3 or Apple Lossless formats.

Jan Ferreira is one of the most promising Portuguese new composers of hands-on electronic music, creating his pieces from a limited palette of tools and resources, including the manipulation of feedback, analog synthesis and distortion. His pieces have deep roots in live performance, and that imbues them with a characteristic immediacy and freshness, as traces of his creative touch and direct manipulation are felt throughout the pieces.

“In this release I worked for the first time with analogue synthesis. It was new territory so I spent long time exploring timbres and textures and what especially drew my attention was the "sharpness" of sound as if one could sense its outlines like with forms and shapes. Also how sounds emerged and 'cut' through the air was of special interest to me. After recording the material it was put into composition with emphasis on the effect of layering certain sounds (and hence what depth or sense of contrast they create) and the feeling of change that occurs when the "sound scenery" shifts. The composition then was more a frame in which these things were allowed to occur (especially in the more abstract pieces) than a linear narrative. All this is also based on a general visual quality that sound conveys to me.”

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