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Thursday, May 30, 2013

Outre - "Tranquility"


Awesome and fairly technical thrashy black metal from Russia courtesy of Outre. Kick ass riffs and chords, vocals are a nice breed of thrashy blackened death, and the drums are full of double kickdrum assaults under really rad fills, rolls, and cymbal workouts. Get it.

Outre - "Tranquility"

- DCKR

Thursday, May 23, 2013

HIMIKO - DethNoizzz

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HIMIKO brings it hard and dirty with "DethNoizzz". Filthy gabber kicks support guttural death metal vocals and shredding, mixed well with HIMIKO's higher pitched shrieks. Most of the tracks have a sludgy slow pace, like plodding through a sewer where Carl Crack's spirit drowns any interlopers with discordant ectoplasmic slime. While the album is mostly made up of a well balanced mixture of various incarnations of extreme metal and digital hardcore stylings, there are smatterings of dubstep, electronic hardcore, breakcore, and crossbreed. D-TRASH proves its worth and relentless dedication to the music with another fine free release. Be sure to check out HIMIKO's last release "Fuck Off", a digital hardcore re-workings of classic American thrash metal tunes. Mochipet was close, but GIRLS LOVE DIGITAL HARDCORE!

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Monday, May 20, 2013

[SOFTWARE POST] Integra Live

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"Integra Live is an application that makes it easy to use interactive audio processing to create new music. The software was originally supported through the EU funded Integra Project, and is now developed by Integra Lab at Birmingham Conservatoire. The software has applications in education as well as professional artistic practice and opens up new possibilities for those seeking an entry point into interactive ‘live electronics’.

With the Integra Live routing panel, anything can be connected everything else. External MIDI controllers can be routed to module parameters, or parameters can be routed to each other.

This allows complex one-to-many mappings and advanced operations such as automatic event triggering through a single simple interface. Parameters have non-linear ranges where you’d expect, allowing for more musical control over details such as filter cutoff and delay times. Scaling is of course fully adjustable.

For those who like to express themselves through text, all module parameters in Integra Live can be scripted through Integra script a lightweight superset of the Lua language. In just a few lines of simple code a parameter can be set to change randomly or conditionally based on the values of other parameters." - From the Integra website

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Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Toxic Chicken - Flastic Fantastique

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Toxic Chicken comes through silly and strong with this fine release on the DIY Warrior net/limited run label Flaccid Plastic Records. 6 tracks. Almost 20 minutes of material. Despite the short run time, you are transported away to an alien planet... a twisted dreamscape where mutant women whisper backwards computer chatter with a feminine flair seeping into your ears through digital backwash. Twitchy minimal mechanical electro is absorbed by gelatinous IDM frog beings, now pulsating with a light blue inner glow inducing synesthesia..... Groovy, happy ditties exhibiting IDM playfulness in a way reminiscent of Mouse on Mars' more playful moments. Weirdo melodies mesh nicely with well chosen vocal samples, the main perpetrators behind the cheerfully odd atmosphere. Toxic Chicken comes through once again with another swell release. I am proud to be label mates with this guy. Don't miss this one.

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Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Anorak - Breakbeat Overdose

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Superb breakcore EP from Anorak. Well produced energetic edits get you pumped while samples with sweet timing assail you, pulling you completely in. The edits at times remind me of personal favorites dev/null or Venetian Snares ("Bolt Thrower" and "Higgins" eras respectively), spastic and engaging. Gets the adrenaline flowing. The track that stood out the most to me was "Up Your Inuendo", which also happens to be the opening song. Ravey synth stabs jump between sporadic nasty breaks, though fairly standard kits, are in no way boring due to the sweet cuts perpetrated by Anorak. Anorak lives up to the reputation of Bristol, UK being a hot spot for tasty breakcore happenings. While still a fairly hard release, gabber kicks are relatively absent (although the track "Leave a LiTTle Piece" gets head bangy with a crossbreed groove). Instead you find acid licks, ravey stabs, and a capella shout outs. Altogether an enjoyable four track EP experience. A happy addition to any breakcore fanatics collection.

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1234 - How To Get To 1234

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"How to get to 1234" is third in a series of albums, each a separate alias of the artist known as Iamdeadsmiles58. With "How to get to 1234" Tito (as Iamdeadsmiles58 is known) shows a softer side and that he has influences that are far more eclectic than simply grindcore and harsh electronics. Iamdeadsmiles58 cites Trip-Hop as a big influence on this record, which is exhibited well with the slower paced break beats and synth noodlings like in "femmes jeux vidéo" which contains chip bleeps and bloops swimming in and out of existence within the french chatter and consistant low bpm mechanical drum break. . While more mellow than other Iamdeadsmiles58 efforts, it is no less dark. Low octave synth growls abounds. For those that aren't fans of high pitch screams, which happens to be an Iamdeadsmiles58 trademark, are absent. 'Its a good thing' as a certain home maker felon would say. High pitched grind vocals would only detract from the well established vibe of "How to get to 1234". Well chosen samples mesh well with what appears to be Iamdeadsmiles58's blossoming talent with psychedelic downtempo hip hop flavored message tracks as shown with the track "Corruption". I've watched this artist mature over the past few years, feeling out and developing his own brand of harsh grindy electronics, well made with a minimal set up. "How to get to 1234" shows a more seasoned artist, willing to explore far different sounds from his previously established style. Everything isn't perfect. "Another Joy Killer" has an enjoyable, slow breakcore vibe, which is later elaborated on in the next track "I Created a Monster In You", though goes on too long. "I Created A Monster In You" has well done high auto tune vocals and some sweet gabber kicks and supporting drum kit, but again it drags on a tad too long. With each track clocking in at on average five minutes, it makes each song a slight endeavor. Although, despite the longer song times, there isn't blaring repetition to be found. Only in the piece "Alone" do you find any kind of irritation. It takes until nearly four minutes through for any real development to happen, but the majority of the track is the same few notes on the piano pounded out over and over again. The piece would be much better suited to a phasing minute interlude. The album picks up some with the next track, a veritable cemetery drum and bass joint brimming with warbling organs and wailing females. The real beauty in this track is the supporting sound fx flourishes and samples. The light break that phases comes in and out does the same diddle through out. Still, much promise is to be found. If honed, a more refined version of this style is very much of the breakcore great, Ablecain. Though Iamdead was inspired by trip hop, little is to be found here. Instead there are promising buds of Breakcore, Stoner Hip Hop, and Jungle/Drum n' Bass. My hopes are for this artist to move in those directions even more with the next effort. Until then, enjoy "How to get to 1234".

Released on the superb french net label, Sirona Records.

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Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Mr. Kitty - D E ∆ T H

kind of riot grrl - witch house? 

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fxbip - 50 tracks

"oh hey i'm fxbip i'll just make 50 tracks of acid whatever no problem."

wtf this is cool.

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Friends of Friends Music - Show Me the Future

An eclectic group of tracks compiled by Friends of Friends Music.

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Ennnn - Kyoto Go!

Some crazy breakcore/noise/lolicore freaking intense shit.

Released by Tsundere Violence
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Dropping Gems - Gem Drops Three

third installation of a compilation series by dropping gems.
" gritty forest beat, maximalist shuttle launch, underground lake narrative, late-night loner keyboard, futuristic hip hop, and emo-juke."

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Dorcelsius - Climax Air Climax

Dorcelsius create strange mindbending sounds with a hypnotic tribal quality and a bittersweet beauty.  Released by Aural Sects.

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[A​+​H013] v/a - Architects + Heroes Sampler Vol. 2

"Two years since the 12 new, archived, and stylistically varied tracks from a then modest roster of artists were collected for their inaugural release, Los Angeles' own Architects + Heroes returns this month with part two in their ongoing "Sampler" compilation series. This time around, they present fresh work from both longtime affiliates Kemek and Demon Slayer, Ninja Tune-affiliated multimedia artist Neotropic, and recent signees, QBLA and The Koreatown Oddity. Moving across ambient textures, experimental hip-hop, and even tender, beat-based love songs is all in a day's work for these voracious Miracle Mile mainstays, keen to exhibit the full splendors of their musical surroundings."

Featuring a dope track from Demon Slayer.

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A.I.(d) - Disorder

The debut album of the djent musician Lou Gregoire's project A.I.(d)

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denevomutans - X

denevomutans creates
minimal and yet captivating darkish electronica
with cool art and a retro-futurist vibe

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Cory Johnson - The Legend of Zelda

Superb post-rock styled arrangements of Legend of Zelda music by Cory Johnson.  So awesome.  You've never heard it like this before.  Probably.

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Auxcide - Dimensions

A sonic "post-chiptune" experiment by an unsung chiptune master (Auxcide), this album rules, kicks ass, slays, destroys, annihilates, regenerates and recreates the universe in 4 short tracks. And then it does it again, in LSDJ.

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V/A - "Hell's Headbangers Compilation 6"


Hell's Headbangers is one of the best and most respected metal distros and labels out there. So, it goes without saying that you should pick up this free compilation from the crew. Hails!

V/A - "Hell's Headbangers Compilation 6"

- DCKR

Isaac Rohr - Harmony

Isaac Rohr (Sexual Prey) is
some pretty damn brilliant melodic idm / breakcore

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Monday, May 6, 2013

Tenebrositas - "Toward The Solemn Realm Of Prophet's Twilight"


No scene. No politics. Darkness alone.

Well said. Trve cvlt black metal from Croatia's Tenebrositas. Get it.

- DCKR

Deuil - "Acceptance/Rebuild"


Belgian post black metal and forward thinking doom by way of Deuil. "Acceptance" spends half of its 20 minutes in borderline ambient/drone doom realms before ultimately unleashing a blackened beast from the post-apocalyptic bowels of post-whatever-as-a-genre while the fittingly titled "Rebuild" continues on the basic trajectory of "Acceptance" as it attempts to rebuild your psyche after the pummeling it received from "Acceptance". Loud, deep, angry, inviting.

Deuil - "Acceptance/Rebuild"

- DCKR