«For the last release of the year, we bring you mon0. mon0 (with a zero in the place of the last 0) comes from a small place near Düsseldorf and Cologne, Germany and started his career in music as a Dj somewhere in the last half of the 80's. It was only some years later that he turned to computers and began composing, first with Rebirth and Reason and later with Live.
As he was (is) a big fan of Plastikman and monolake - who probably inspired him when he started to sign his work as mon0, his first compositions were something along the lines of minimal/ambient techno. Most of mon0's releases are along those aesthetics.
But from some time now, mon0 has turned his attention to pure ambient, using only sprouts of percussion elements in his tracks. His latest tracks sound like something Biosphere and monolake could be doing together, without the beats. It's some deep, dense and heavy form of very minimal ambient techno with all the beats taken out. 'Interference' and 'SeNØrd', two long tracks with roughly 20 minutes each, make up this small album called 'Beyond', and if you're into ambient music, you really should listen to this.»
- Pedro Leitão
Oh, and have a nice new year's eve! Happy 2009 to you all!
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December 27, 2008
TIDY KID FOR THE EYES
We've added a new video taken from Tidy Kid's 'One Week With My Casio'. It's called 'Coma For a Dog' and it's brilliant. Check it out below.
You can also watch both videos at Vimeo, in bigger windows or even fullscreen, here and here.
«This small album by Japanese musician Naoto Taguchi comes only a few months after he released a four tracker at on;(do) music. Those four tracks were re-mixed and re-recorded, Naoto added four more and an extra one which is a remix of 'Untitled Fragments #3' by Daisuke Miyatani, a fellow artist.
Presentations aside, Naoto's music can be described as a gentle and complex tapestry of electroacoustic, field recordings and lush drones sounds. The release notes of his previous release talk about an artist which «is also an active dj with own distinguished style. His music combines electronic sounds and real-life sounds into static and poetic soundscapes that breathe like living compositions. His unique and precisely detailed music style often evokes listeners moving pictures and stories.», and this is a very accurate description of what Naoto Taguchi's music sounds like to me.
Enjoy this late Christmas present» - Pedro Leitão
«'One Week With My Casio' is a little gem of an EP originally released in cassette by Germany's Froggi Records - talk about being oldschool... - which literally covers a week's worth of song composition and recording around a CASIO CT-102 by NYC based musician Tidy Kid. This K7 only release is limited to 150 copies, by the way.
In approximately fifteen minutes of music, Tidy Kid covers some electro-pop territory from the 80's to current time, while exploring some of its known boundaries. Examples? 'Mute Face's freak-pop which easily turns out as one of the best songs of this year; Shortest dance track ever 'I Lost My Mind', which fuses BoC style pads and eighties dance-pop (video here); 'Pretty Girl' and its 8bit drum kits and droopy synth. And this doesn't end here.
'One Week With My Casio' is a release not short of extraordinary and leaves us wondering about how a full album could've sounded if Tidy Kid spent a month with his CASIO instead of a week. Get this now!» - Pedro Leitão
As a bonus, here's two videos from 'One Week With My Casio': 'Coma For a Dog' and 'I Lost My Mind'. Great videos!
«Adam Balušík comes from Slovakia, one of the last european countries to regain independence in the 20th century and also one of the youngest members of the European Union. With his room101 disguise, Adam crafts some very nice drones based on low-frequencies hums and high-pitched samples. We usually identify this style as Experimental Ambient.
'Subconscious'
opens up with 'Neurosecretory Cell', one of the two pieces in this album that push the drones into agressive territory. 'Vertical Décalage', 'Cyclic Nucleotide' and 'Subconscious Suite' are much easier to assimilate and provide longer and lasting appeal to the ordinary listener. In fact, the last track is my favorite because it grows in its womb a big, phat and reverberating drone. A beautiful piece occasionally splintered with audio debris, which actually comes as a nice plus as it diverts the listener's attention towards other interesting elements. Well worth of your time.» - Pedro Leitão
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December 08, 2008
LIVE ANAGRAMS
This is for all you local netaudio and good electronic music fans: next saturday Organic Anagram will be playing a live show in Viseu's FNAC store (check out Google Maps for locations). Admission is, of course, free. If you're in the neighborhood, don't miss it.
