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This humble lo-fi rehearsal tape is the most valuable document in the history of BM. More black than metal, this is the quintessence of this amazing scene, influencing all influencers - those old enough to witness the early days know well what i mean.
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Muslimgauze discography is a collector's nightmare, but you don't really want to have it all. His 80s industrial albums and his post-mortem post-00s dub albums (more demos than albums, really) are interesting but not exceptional. But his 90s...
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'Raw and dirty it has to be! That's my vision. Because there is so much energy and magic in this disturbing distorted sound. It triggers your own imagination. Like in a blizzard, where you can't really see anything but a blur. You are forced, to use...
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The theme of Drykkjuvisur Ohljodanna is alcohol and its effects, though any periods of induced euphoria are tempered by hangovers, blackouts, and the nihilism of those who would drink themselves to death. The mechanistic rhythms and ice-crystal drones...
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Imperceptible transformations, passing without notice from one frequency flux to another, a voyage through material sound, time suspended and stretched.
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Paysage d"hiver at their (his) best, over 2 hrs of raw hypothermic ambient black metal without losing its momentum even for a single moment. Savage and sublime and already classic, the best thing that came out since Exercises in Futility.
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To dig deeper into sine and square waves, this is quite illuminating: https://youtu.be/v4XG_NHLWcs
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A truly cult album of dark electronics. Ambient techno it is, but so ominous, bleak and uncompromising that it sounds like a black metal side-project.
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The most satisfying industrial/techno act since more than 10 yrs now. Mood and tension favoured over sound and arrangement, the result being unyielding and brilliantly boot-faced. As-salamu aleykum, bastards.
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: : No-nonsense menschliches-allzumenschliches black metal for grown ups : :
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What do you expect from a KW album entitled 'Allah Infinity'? Nothing else but Allah and Infinity. This is the most weird and dark KW record, a frozen and paralyzing minimalism as if in awe of Something. More like a message rather than music, this is...
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Effervescent euphoria, mesmerizing haziness, the best dub ambient there is out there, his worst works are almost excellent, his best beyond words.
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Despite the serene and seemingly apathetic movement of these megalithic glacial drones, there is a very eerie tension from the beginning to the very end of this remarkable record. A huge iceberg abound in dark tranquillity slowly but steadily moving...
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'Not saved': a mind-bending earworm of lupine quintessence. Not saved, saved not.
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A calm but powerful beast that has passed the test of time, over 2 hrs of music and not a single weak moment, each time and a new revelation, give the sisters some time and you will be surprised to what they unveil.
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Dear Lic0001: Suppose that once upon a time Grassow used/edited original material from Wiese (let's call it version 1). Then, some years later, Weiss also used/edited the same original material from Wiese (version 2). Now, the software you mention...
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Dear 212: concerning Wiese’s ‘fake’ material, you write on March 13 that they are Weiss’ own recordings, while on April 15 that they are Grassow’s. I am sure all Wiese’s fans are sick with this story and we all demand the truth, or at least, some...
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Max volume, no headphones. Let the electronic mayhem blast through your speakers, sterilizing everything in the room, your bone marrow included. Inhale and let be inhaled. Purification. Catharsis. How does silence sound now that it is all over?
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The electronic isoform of Gregorian chants, only HDG can really do that.
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His last gem, after this came a flood of meaningless garbage unworthy of the man's calibre, hope he recovers soon.
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Nothing reminds modernity here (thus the commonly used industrial and/or ethnic are improper words for this album); instead, one gets engulfed in an eerie antediluvian prehistoric atmosphere, caves and fires and primordial men aghast at darkness, a...
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Your are alone, family far away beyond reach, and are informed that a meteorite is going to crash 2 hours from now and bring the end of life on earth. So this is it, no time for farewells, no time for regrets. Get a cold shower, pray if you will, and...
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Sedative ambient, shy and discrete even when played at max volume, the soundtrack of your personal sanatorium; you won’t need alcohol with this one, just a glass of water.
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Archaic, heroic, pure, sacral; a criminally underrated post-ambient milestone (don’t be fooled by the haters’ ratings here, you need to give this album a chance), brief in duration but huge in impact, Olegh Kolyada at his most finest.
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This is the quintessence of this remarkable band; epic here, dreamy there, for few initiating, for all exhilarating, a truly milestone ambient/drone album which, like every good wine, gets only better with time. CLASSIC.
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Meta-historical, meta-political, neo-this, pseudo-that : i don’t really care what Albin really was, but at that time he made some really fascinating music, this is an incredible album waiting to engulf you with every listening, it captivates me even...
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Listening to FJERNLYS is like eating honey in the sun.
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One of Nordvargr’s most brilliant moments, frozen ambient whose depth is highlighted by the experimental glitch and refreshing dub elements, altogether captivating from the beginning till the (surprising) end. Still available with its bonus cd in...
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Truly sublime, even for (the usually very high) echospace standards.
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Dear God, what a masterpiece, again, how many more unpublished works exist? Klaus Wiese never stops to amaze me, a true mystic of sound, there is something indefinite echoing the Absolute and the Eternal in his music, that nobody else has really...
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16 long years after their last album, the Kings are back! Mature and yet fresh, from psychedelic rock to industrial electronica and from cabaret folk to sacral drone: this is AIN SOPH muzak! Easily, the album of 2018.
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To the best of my knowledge, this is the only CD release containing the actual Stalker soundtrack as heard in the film (and not a rather mediocre re-recorded re-visitation of it as often presented in other editions like this one...
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Distinctive clarinet-based drone psychedelia of the highest sensitivity and quality, mellow and mature and meditative, an album that needs to be saved.
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The main disc is very good, typical Wiese meditative overtones, but the gem here is the mini cd included in the limited version, serene and yet threatening, almost cinematic, it will linger in you for quite some time after the cd is over.
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Alio Die has an extensive discography of consistent high quality, pick up at random any of his releases and you won't be disappointed. But Incantamento is his absolute gem, i doubt that anybody can listen to this and not be impressed and even...
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Vincit omnia veritas . . . . . . . .
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I can not disagree here. I was also puzzled by the striking similarity with 'Himalaya' when i first listened to 'Rest' a couple of days ago, the synths are indeed almost identical, although an attentive listener will identify important structural...
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'But I honestly don't think that Klaus would approve these remastered versions because they sound way too 'mechanical' killing a lot of Klaus' lo-fi magic'.
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Politics aside, if it was not el-culto (Tomas Weiss) many Klaus Wiese works would have been left forgotten and perhaps forever inaccessible for many of us. Moreover, in my humble opinion, Weiss' attitude towards releasing Wiese's works seems to not be...
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An essential compilation of rare TROUM 7", presented in a wooden box including photos, map of a labyrinth (after all, Da-Pu-Ri-To-Jo is the linear B for 'Labyrinth') and a bottle with 'magic' earth. I doubt that the earth is 'magic', but the music on...
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