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Benzo - The Tapes - 08-Jun-05 05:23 AM
first word that comes to mind is techno. Good old. Remastered. Repatriated. Catchy, groovy rhythms of funny house, sometimes reminding "speed garage" drums. The album begins more strangely with slow tracks with ethnic feel given by guitarish sad sequences (Unsuccessful Hunt, At The Campfire) and some panflute (The Village Morse) over dirty-as-they-should-be pulses, bass notes and noises of old sound apparata.

Then begins The Cellar at Technical Scool - funny rhythm through all 8:14, sauced with adorable analog noise sometimes, which makes people wonder whats going on in my headphones.

Summertime is another rhytmic minimalism, like funnier, much funnier pan sonic, up to the middle where it becomes slow analog techno with ambientish sounds over it.

Next 6 minutes and 55 seconds Benzo spends searching for vodka in atmosphere of rather anxious minimal techno. I dont know if he found what he was looking for.

Wheres My House - this title is funny in english. Your house is right here in this track! But in fact it should be "Home", not "House". The track starts with sounds which resemble raindrops under some old bridge in the middle of the night. Then maybe the house is found, cause it starts.

Rubber Weights remind some tracks from Kotra "Tek" with technic-industrial sounds.

On the Tractor is a funny track with repeated square wave bass riffie. Too long as for me.

Wallpaper with a Flower Pattern is very good, joyful, funny techno with an extremely lovable hi-hat. At the beginning of track there is an extract from some american movie, which were translated by one person and shown on local tv channels during several years after the end of USSR.

A Trip to Bukhara is indeed a step into the Uzbekistan and oriental melodic. Little step, though.

Dark analog ambient from Dimitrov-town closes the album. There is a voice from a telephone saying "best wishes to you, goodbye". But last seconds of this track are like "to be continued" played by notes - harsh techno riff comes out on the surface and starts to develop, but sorry, the album ends and well continue this in a new one. Something like that.

Aksak Maboul - Onze Danses Pour Combattre La Migraine - 31-Mar-05 01:48 AM
This is a re-release as part of Crammed rec. Global Soundclash series; the album has been recorded and primarily released in 1977. It is often called legendary over the web, because its been something radically new and different in comparison to music spread at that time.

Graeme Revell - The Insect Musicians - 25-Mar-05 04:29 AM
Its one of my favourite albums. Strange, sad and beautiful melodies over mysterious harmonic soundscapes and sometimes simple bass riffs, spiced up with sampled sounds of insects.

According to some of small bits of information from internet searches, this music was entirely composed from insect samples.. This is just a guess-work - can be true as well as wrong. If Graeme Revell himself poured some light on this.

Kotra - TEK - 21-Mar-05 04:26 AM
Lots of industrial techno can be found on this album. It is not the indeterminism of present state of Kotra self-investigation - everything is thumping pretty determinedly. Some people may say this is a boring record, but I wouldnt say that it is that bad. Music is good and can be entertaining and fun. Especially tracks 15 and 20 - energetic groovy industrial tech and VERY strange rhythm of heavy machinery correspondingly.

From a web-zine interview (http://www.indie.kiev.ua/kotra.html): Stan is not a label as we know it. It was a snap-shot of current mental, physical and whatever state ("stan" means "state" in Ukrainian) of some people by some work, not necessarily work of art. This album was not released anywhere - it came out straight out of the artist.

[The User] - Symphony #1 For Dot Matrix Printers - 06-Jan-05 01:11 AM
The sound quality is better than on Symphony #2 - better mixing and mastering. A lot of structures from this release are used in Symphony #2, making it sound like alternative lo-fi versions of Symphony #1 tracks.

Some tracks here have irresistible groovy rhythms and industrial bass - its hard to believe that it has been done with a dotmatrix printer.

Three mp3 links on their page have some decent titles, "Control to Efficiency", "Efficiency" and "New Existential Clause" - working-titles, maybe.

This is a hard work of a genius. A must-have experimental record.

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