Sunday, May 9, 2010
Chris D. / Divine Horsemen - Time Stands Still (1984)
Awful. Sounds like an unironic Adam Sandler. I don't even know where i got this crap. d-e-l-e-t-e-d
Sunday, May 2, 2010
Cat Rapes Dog - Maximum Overdrive
very simplistic. Not even "minimal electro", just simple. entire album sounds like it was composed on one little drum machine. File away with nitzer ebb and 242 for ebm i can't listen to.
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Rome - L’Assassin
CD single. Sounds like slow gothrock vocals over far too adult contemporary acoustic guitar, piano, cello, and violin. All really well produced but i'd be embarrassed to be caught listening to it in the same way listening to michael bolton is embarrassing. not my style. not that i like "neofolk" at all anyway. d-e-l-e-t-e-d
Thursday, August 6, 2009
Atrax Morgue - 6 albums
Cut my throat - improv moog knob turning, this is the AM i try to avoid.
new york ripper - Multilayered horror soundtrack, very good!
Paranoia - Over the top PE vocals, "evil" whispering, very minimal moog loops of drones, sirens and alarms.
Sweetly - more evil whispering, nice running concept throughout. the electronics seem somewhat improvised on some tracks, not as layered or orchestrated as ripper or paranoia. The glitchyness in Sodomizing Sweetly really stands out and sounds good, but it's a little long at 7mins. Undermeat sounds like all improv and doesn't fit well with the other tracks.
Death-orgasm connector - super minimal single analog tone or pulse makes up the majority of the music on almost every track, with evil vocals over them. The exceptions are the first track which is almost acapella voice performance with feedback, at about 1:20, 2:40, a superthick zipzappy synthwash floods the speakers as the vocals' reach squealing crescendos. Track 2 Inside Your Body is definitely the standout track for its urgancy and forcefulness. The final track The Game Is Closed is also nice for the slow buildup towards the end.
Woundfucker - A whole album of horror soundtrack synth textures that never really goes anywhere. I love the sounds he chooses to make with with his wonderful toys but too much knob noodling and not enough concept for my ears. Listening to this i almost wonder what it would sound like with more instrumentation like percussion and more dynamic changes in the synths.
new york ripper - Multilayered horror soundtrack, very good!
Paranoia - Over the top PE vocals, "evil" whispering, very minimal moog loops of drones, sirens and alarms.
Sweetly - more evil whispering, nice running concept throughout. the electronics seem somewhat improvised on some tracks, not as layered or orchestrated as ripper or paranoia. The glitchyness in Sodomizing Sweetly really stands out and sounds good, but it's a little long at 7mins. Undermeat sounds like all improv and doesn't fit well with the other tracks.
Death-orgasm connector - super minimal single analog tone or pulse makes up the majority of the music on almost every track, with evil vocals over them. The exceptions are the first track which is almost acapella voice performance with feedback, at about 1:20, 2:40, a superthick zipzappy synthwash floods the speakers as the vocals' reach squealing crescendos. Track 2 Inside Your Body is definitely the standout track for its urgancy and forcefulness. The final track The Game Is Closed is also nice for the slow buildup towards the end.
Woundfucker - A whole album of horror soundtrack synth textures that never really goes anywhere. I love the sounds he chooses to make with with his wonderful toys but too much knob noodling and not enough concept for my ears. Listening to this i almost wonder what it would sound like with more instrumentation like percussion and more dynamic changes in the synths.
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Blackhumour - ...it was inappropriate
First track is enjoyable looped voice cut-up creating a fast rhythm over a looped 5 note drone.
track two isn't as enjoyable, 2 voices played together saying various phrases creating a murmur while a muted alarm woop woop and wuuh play over a deep drone. this goes on for nearly 10 mins.
Track three sounds like rapid tapedeck play+rew+play+rew+play done with voice samples creating a disjointed non-rhythm. the left and right channels have separate manipulations going on that collide randomly and blend together on speakers, but is rather disorienting and separated through headphones. Interesting but again it's the same idea going on for 10mins with no variation but the randomness of were the looped sounds from one channel intersect with the other.
Track four is a repetitive loop of treated echoed murmurs and a 3 note synth loop. There's a couple short outbursts of voice fragments at 3 points that liven things up. Enjoyable mood created with the loops and i didn't start looking at the >> button til the 3 min mark after i realized it was going to do the same thing for another 7 mins, the outbursts of sound were a welcome addition, i wish there was more of them.
track five is just 4 voices saying "one hundred, thirteen, two, four" for 10mins, not very interesting. ff>>
Track six appears to be a 3second loop in the left channel, slightly altered version of that loop in the right channel. the loop reminds me of a combination of cafeteria noise and bullfrogs at night over top of amplified dusty record static. Nice atmosphere but like the other tracks it doesn't really go anywhere, same 3 second loop for 9mins.
Tracks 1 and 3 are the standout songs because of their faster cuts in the foreground of the mix. The only other track i really liked was 4 for the eerie tone the loops created.
track two isn't as enjoyable, 2 voices played together saying various phrases creating a murmur while a muted alarm woop woop and wuuh play over a deep drone. this goes on for nearly 10 mins.
Track three sounds like rapid tapedeck play+rew+play+rew+play done with voice samples creating a disjointed non-rhythm. the left and right channels have separate manipulations going on that collide randomly and blend together on speakers, but is rather disorienting and separated through headphones. Interesting but again it's the same idea going on for 10mins with no variation but the randomness of were the looped sounds from one channel intersect with the other.
Track four is a repetitive loop of treated echoed murmurs and a 3 note synth loop. There's a couple short outbursts of voice fragments at 3 points that liven things up. Enjoyable mood created with the loops and i didn't start looking at the >> button til the 3 min mark after i realized it was going to do the same thing for another 7 mins, the outbursts of sound were a welcome addition, i wish there was more of them.
track five is just 4 voices saying "one hundred, thirteen, two, four" for 10mins, not very interesting. ff>>
Track six appears to be a 3second loop in the left channel, slightly altered version of that loop in the right channel. the loop reminds me of a combination of cafeteria noise and bullfrogs at night over top of amplified dusty record static. Nice atmosphere but like the other tracks it doesn't really go anywhere, same 3 second loop for 9mins.
Tracks 1 and 3 are the standout songs because of their faster cuts in the foreground of the mix. The only other track i really liked was 4 for the eerie tone the loops created.
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