(MP 300) Various - Clicks & Cuts 5.0 - Paradigm Shift CD (Compilation) 2010

Various - Clicks & Cuts 5.0 - Paradigm Shift
Label: Mille Plateaux
Catalog#: MP 300
Format: CD, Compilation, Digisleeve
Country: Germany
Released: 07 May 2010
Genre: Electronic
Style: Abstract, Glitch, IDM, Experimental, Ambient, Minimal
Notes: CD edition contains 2 bonus "Evac" tracks not available in the regular digital edition.
Comes in a nice 6-sided digisleeve.

Tracklist:
1 Scattertape - Shelving A Tempered String (Intro) 1:00
2 Aoki Takamasa - RN4-09 (Short Version) 5:36
3 Wyatt Keusch - Object 02 (C&C Cut) 4:26
4 Loom - Isolex 03 4:10
5 Ametsub - Repeatedly (Video Edit) 4:41
6 Kiyo - Bear In. Warm-Noiz (C&C Fade) 3:32
7 Marow - e.coli 4:12
8 Manathol - BAKETO (C&C Cut) 4:18
9 Kabutogani - CXEMA 3:48
10 Nicolaus - Inner (C&C Fade) 5:28
11 Sifa Dias - Eitec Aa (C&C Fade) 3:14
12 Klive - Sweaty Psalms 4:22
13 Gultskra & Artikler - w 3:59
14 Yu Miyashita - Scrypt 3:43
15 Alinoe - Il (Outro) 1:24
16 Lodsb - Eve (CD Only Evac Track) 4:25
17 Rimacona - Message (CD Only Evac Track) 5:38

The influential electronic label MILLE PLATEAUX kickstarts it's newest chapter with it's flagship: A new edition of the legendary CLICKS & CUTS compilation series, that in fact named it's own genre. Volume 5.0 (subtitled "Paradigm Shift") features a totally new generation of young artists giving a 360 degree view on fresh glitch sounds: from Minimal Clicks to IDM-/Dub-ish tracks via Ambient and Sound Art to the 2 'Evac' tracks going to the Artcore and Organic extremes. Each song has it's own distinct character, and with a significantly higher amount in melodic and compository details than it's predecessors, this is probably the most musically substantial CLICKS & CUTS compilation ever.


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(PRE 029) Ous Mal - Nuojuva halava CD (Album) 2010

Ous Mal - Nuojuva halava
Label: Preservation
Catalog#: PRE029
Format: CD, Album
Country: Australia & New Zealand
Released: 25 May 2010
Genre: Electronic
Style: Experimental

Tracklist:
1 Marraskuu
2 Parveke
3 Tuulensuoja
4 Viima
5 Vaskiset Kielet
6 Kumiseva
7 Kotiin
8 Merilaulu
9 Ystava
10 Talviaamu
11 Aamubussi

Here's something very special indeed from the Preservation label: Nuojuva Halava is the debut album proper from Finnish artist Ous Mal, aka 22-year-old Helsinki resident, Olli Aarni, who recently appeared on Under The Spire with his Viime Talvi release. As with that outing, this album features a scratchy old sound palette, seemingly made up of several layers of dust, cobwebs and crackling atmospherics. The fustiness makes for a beautiful production technique, but the music itself is often incredibly light and ebullient. For all the lo-fi trappings encasing the record, you're seldom starved of something beautiful at the heart of the mix. For instance, on opener 'Marraskuu' there's a lovely swell of orchestral melody cutting through the sliced-up, heavily looped debris, and as Nuojuva Halava unfolds you'll hear Aarni putting to good use a combination of samples and instrumentation (including the indigenous Finnish string instrument, the kantele), conjuring a sonic playground that's loaded with fantastical imagery and faux-nostalgia. By the time 'Vaskiset Kielet' arrives you might be a tad surprised to hear a warm, low-end beat plodding alongside the track's patchwork of decaying melodies, but eroded away rhythms are buried throughout the album's sequence and as the label is keen to point out, this is a collection of of works that finds "common ground between the dusty tenor of old-school hip hop cassettes and the fog of deep ambience". A very fine album indeed.

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[Cotton Goods 001 SP, 002 SP, 003 SP] Sub Loam - Ohr CDr 2009

Sub Loam - Ohr
Label: Cotton Goods, Cotton Goods, Cotton Goods
Catalog#: 001 SP, 002 SP, 003 SP
Format: 3 x CDr, Mini, Single
Box Set
Country: UK
Released: 18 Jun 2009
Genre: Electronic
Style: Experimental, Ambient

Box Set containing three singles by Sub Loam. One track per CDr. Each CDr has a seperate catalogue number though they were released in this Box Set format only. Each CDr in a seperate hand made envelope fashioned from pages of old books. The whole thing packaged in a cardboard microfilm case, with a string tied archive strip around it.

Tracklist:
CD1 Ohr Part 1 Nettle Mix
CD2 Ohr Part 2 Overgrown Path
CD3 Ohr Part 3 Stones, Sunlight, Morning

When writing about releases on Craig Tattersall's lovingly handcrafted Cotton Goods label it's always a temptation to start going on about the packaging first, and this new triple disc set from the mysterious Sub Loam proves to be especially alluring in that department. You'll find the three 3" CDs collectively housed inside a sturdy microfilm box, with each one therein individually slotted into envelopes made from old books, embossed with the Cotton Goods Ltd stamp. And of course everything's hand-numbered, with just 100 copies in circulation. It's a lovely and outlandishly elaborate item, so let's hope we find that the music has been similarly laboured over once we've prized it from its housing. The first disc in the Ohr triptych ('Nettle Mix') initiates us into a world of flickering delays and tape reel manipulations - a billowing soundscape littered with analogue recording artifacts, Radiophonic effects sweeps and overloaded space echo. The vintage feel is perfectly in tune with the recovered, antique feel to the presentation, and it's carried over onto the next disc (titled 'Overgrown Path') which features fragments of grainy chords and hiss-saturated background noises. Once again, the piece is characterised by the warm repercussions of vintage echo - carving thunderclap sound effects into the background - but there's a more prominent, Basinski-esque melodic element here too. The final disc ('Stones, Sunlight, Morning') is inevitably suggestive of that great buzzword du jour, 'hauntology', offering shadows and reverberations of something that once was, rather than anything tangible. These evolving, ambient echo loops eventually give way to more discernible constituents, and the sound of the elements consumes the final few minutes: gusts of wind and watery field recordings draw the disc to a close, leaving you with the same sense of mystery and puzzlement you probably had when you entered into all this. The discs played in sequence make for a beautiful, tape-spun sound cycle, but as an alternative serving suggestion, you could probably fashion yourself a rather wonderful Zaireeka-style multichannel listening experience by rigging the discs to all play simultaneously. However you choose to digest it, Ohr is clearly a very special release in all departments, act fast if you want one as these babies just never last very long...

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[ZagZig 004] Ryoji Ikeda - Dataphonics (Album) CD 2010

Ryoji Ikeda - Dataphonics
Label: Dis Voir
Catalog#: 133938 ZagZig004
Format: CD, Album, Book
Country: France
Released: May 2010
Genre: Electronic
Style: Abstract, Minimal, Experimental

Notes: Book 64 pages with 62 illustrations in black & white + free Cd.

The sounds for this Cd was commissioned by the Atelier de Creation Radiophonique (ACR) de France Culture.: It was broadcasted monthly troughout the year 2006-07 and finaly remixed as a special version.

Tracklist:
1 Principle 6:00
2 Spectrum 6:00
3 Transmission 6:00
4 Transformation 6:00
5 Rhythmics 6:00
6 Automatic 6:00
7 Quantization 6:00
8 Harmonics 6:00
9 Counterpoint 6:00
10 Structure 6:00

Ryoji Ikeda is one of the world's most radical sound artist famed for his detailed and precise audio-visual work at the extremities of digital engineering, as well as an occasional collaborator with Carsten Nicolai aka Alva Noto. 'Dataphonics' is Ikeda's brand new book & CD exploring the relationship between the data of sound and the sound of data. It appears via the ZigZag series of book/CDs intended to create an editorial space for sound works by artists. The CD accompanying the book contains an edited sixty minute version of the series of 'Dataphonics' broadcasts commissioned by the Atelier de Création Radiophonique (ACR) de France Culture throughout the year 2006-07 and features an hour of utterly visceral and ultra precise physical digital processing using non-audio data as elemental source material and deploying frequencies at the periphery of human audition, sounds that as Ikeda explains, "the listener becomes aware of only upon their disappearance". The book attempts to explain the processes and methods behind the creation of these sounds through mathematical and graphical examinations of the fundamental binary reduction/representation of sound waveforms. It makes for another challenging yet beautiful addition to Ikeda's hugely impressive canon - and a startling, beautifully produced artefact in its own right. Highly recommended.

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[SPNet 11] Fm-Ra & jjoth - Impossible Worlds 2010

Fm-Ra & jjoth - Impossible Worlds
Label: SP
Catalog#: SPNet11
Format: 4 x File, MP3, 320 kbps
Country: US
Released: 22 Jun 2010
Genre: Electronic
Style: Ambient

Tracklist:
1 Fm-Ra - Fallen Eons 2:21
2 Fm-Ra - Oblivion 2:38
3 jjoth - Waste 3:57
4 jjoth - We Are Alone Now 3:05

Impossible Worlds is a split EP composed and produced by Fm-Ra and jjoth on June 2010.

The EP is one of many possible soundtracks for a dystopic world,
in which the quested paradise has become a vivid image - a memory? - in one's mind,
mere reflex of the past communion man-nature,
now overwhelmed by the assymetric relation man-technology/machine.

Therefore, the EP can be divided in two parts:

the first 2 songs, more melodical, are still reminiscent of the now only remembered harmony;
the 3rd and 4th songs, more amelodical, twisted and sometimes (post?)industrial,
reflect the experience of a cannibalesque humankind living in a now harsh world.

For more informations:
www.myspace.com/fmrafmra
www.myspace.com/jjoth

SP Net info:
http://www.myspace.com/spnetfa
http://flataffectsp.blogspot.com/
http://www.archive.org/details/sp-net

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[wh 127] O.E.S. - A Material, A Sound, A Shape 2010

O.E.S. - A Material, A Sound, A Shape
Label: Webbed Hand Records
Catalog#: wh127
Format: File, MP3, 320 kbps
Country: US
Released: 17 Jun 2010
Genre: Classical, Electronic
Style: Leftfield, Modern Classical, Experimental

Tracklist:
1 Steve Layton - Night Lights (Shintaro Sato) 6:54
2 Massimo Croce - Middan Tharir 8:16
3 Steve Layton - Canto Notturno (Giacomo Leopardi) 7:46
4 Imago Meccano & Marco Lucchi - Glitchy Fragment #1 (Curtains Remix) 3:57
5 Giza - O.E.S. Sketch 1 Entia Non (Steve Layton - Canto Notturno) 2:58
6 Giza - O.E.S. Sketch 2 (Onomelotron) 3:11
7 Imago Meccano - Uncertain (Entia Non Remixed) 7:30
8 Giza - O.E.S. Sketch 3 – Celer 5 4 3:30
9 Steve Layton - O Saffo 3:45
10 Angelo Secondini - Evaporate 8:26
11 loALUe - Along The Serpentine, Under The Snow 2:37
12 Lolek - A Material, A Sound, A Shape 5:20

Orchestra Eclettica e Sincretista is a musical collective led by Marco Lucchi.

The concept of this album is group members remixing or constructing pieces from tracks and
samples contributed by other members.
"it is about remixing and reworking each other -- an "internal" project... it concerns the pleasure of a collective and shared work... the title lightly refers to alchemy" - Marco Lucchi.

Features tracks contributed by Steve Layton, Massimo Croce, Loalue, Cometa, Imago Meccano, Giza and Lolek and sounds by Entia Non, Marco Lucchi, Kozo Ikeno, The Onomatopoeian, Celer, Christian Vasseur, Wara Tito Rios, Sonicbrat, Satoshi Arisaka, Naoki Ishida and Harold Nono.
Visit www.musichevirtuali.org for more information about Marco Lucchi and O.E.S.

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[BB 048] Mœbius & Plank - Rastakraut Pasta (Album) CD 2010

Mœbius & Plank - Rastakraut Pasta
Label: Bureau B
Catalog#: BB048
Format: CD, Album, Reissue
Country: Germany
Released: 2010
Genre: Electronic
Style: Krautrock, Experimental

Credits: Artwork By [Cover By] - Mœbius
Bass - Holger Czukay (tracks: 3-4)
Composed By - Moebius & Plank

Tracklist:
1 News 4:53
2 Rastakraut Pasta 6:17
3 Feedback 66 4:58
4 Missi Cacadou 5:32
5 Two Oldtimers 7:03
6 Solar Plexus 4:55
7 Landebahn 1:29

'Rastakraut Pasta' is the 1980 album of odd studio experiments from the legendary Conny Plank and Dieter Moebius (also of Harmonia/Cluster/Kluster etc). In the scheme of things, this album appeared after some of Dieter's best works with Eno and Roedelius, and at the start of a fruitful pairing with seminal studio engineer, Plank, before they would go on to create the frankly awesome 'Zero Set' album together with Cosmic Courier, Manfred Neumeier. Obviously influenced by Jamaican dub and perhaps tired with lovely kosmiche trips, this album just reeks of smoke and heated circuitry, keeping the pace to a lethargic waddle throughout. The title track is basically a weirdo dub pattern scrawled with skronky Teutonic melodies and fizzing electronics from all corners of the studio and sounds like they had a wicked time making it. With 'Feedback 66' they version Ramones style punk at halfspeed with warped vocals, while there are a couple of more typical synthesizer workouts on 'Two Oldtimers' and 'Solar Plexus', but these both have a playful sense of humour that's generally not found in their other material. A landmark LP of late krautrock experimentation, then!

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