2009. december 31., csütörtök

Radio Massacre International: Burned & Frozen (1997)


Az RMI második lemeze, amelyen az Armistice mellett a Frozen North ciklus 3. részét hallhatjuk.

2009. december 24., csütörtök

Orbán György: Karácsonyi oratórium (2007)



Kellemes Karácsonyi Ünnepeket!

Ramp: Nodular (1998)



A Ramp első, talán leginkább BS, és leginkább "érdekes" lemeze.
1996 tavaszán Lambert Ringlage és Stephen Parsick közös projektje, a "Trancesession" sikere után valamiféle folytatást terveztek. Hozzájuk csatlakozott Frank Makowski a TRANQUILLITY-ből. A formáció neve RPM lett. Az első felvételeket az Esseni Egyetem egyik termében vették fel 1996 áprilisában. Ekkor rögzítették többek között a Hybernation/Dauerschlaf c. kompozíciót, amit később a Frozen Radios albumukon hallhatunk. Mivel Lambert nem értett egyet a Steve és Frank által preferált kisérleti dark ambient irányvonallal, 1997 augusztusában kilépett az együttesből. Így Stephen és Frank duóként folytatta a Stepehen által ajánlott "ramp" néven. A név jelentése kettős, egyrész a korai EMS szintikben található ramp generátorra utal, másrészt "katasztrófa" hollandul. A RAMP hivatalosan 1997 elején alakult, az első koncertjüket augusztus 29-én rendezték Marl-ban. Az együttes nyitott volt, azaz több zenész is megfordult benne. Az első ilyen Martina Fantar szoprán volt. 1997 májusában csatlakozott a csapathoz, 1998-ig több koncerten közreműködött. Őt hallhatjuk a Before the Storm c. felvételen is. Persze nem sokáig maradt, bizonyos "művészeti nézeteltérések" miatt 1998-ban kilépett az együttesből. Más zenészek is csatlakoztak egy-egy felvétel erejéig, például Stefan Kraft vagy a Kubusschnittből jól ismert Jens Peschke.

A Nodulart az 1997 augusztus 29-i Marl-ban rendezett koncert anyagából, a november 15-én a Düsseldorf közeli Neuss-i koncertből, valamint korábbi studiófelvételekből állították össze.

2009. december 15., kedd

Ron Boots, Frank Dorittke & Harold van der Heijden - Derby (2009)


"A lemezt az idei AD Electronic Music fesztiválon rögzítették szeptember 5-én az angliai Derby Guildhallban. Ron Boots mellett a dobos Harold van der Heijden, illetve a gitáros Frank Dorittke (F.D. Project) segédkezett, így adván egy kis rockos, progresszív színezetet a koncertnek. Az elhangzott művek - Dorittke Canyon c. alkotása kivételével - mind Boots szerzeményei, tehát ez egy amolyan Best of Ron Boots album."

2009. december 4., péntek

Dorian - Industrial Love (2007)


Electronic music, as we know it, is in full evolution. More and more, we discover artists who combine the broad outline of Berlin School to couple them on rhythms or modulations which approach soft techno.
Dorian’s 2nd opus is a revelation in this new crenel. It’s tinted of an atmosphere to the strange amplitudes that begin Industrial Love.
Industrial Love is a collection of 9 titles to various orientations which concentrate on a crossing between Berlin School and the soft techno. There are strokes of geniuses a little everywhere which let foresee an extremely promising future for Dorian Przystalski. A great title, better and more daring than it’s first opus, Antimatter.


Create - Words Just Get in the Way (2009)


Composed, played and recorded by Create September 2008 to December 2008 at The Backroom Studio.
1.The Obsidian Eye (38:30)
(Live Studio 24.11.08)
2.Closer Than You Think (24.30)
(Featuring Hashtronaut)
3.Slave To The Groove 11.46
(A Sequencer Workout)
Additional guitar treatments on 'Closer Than You Think' added by Hashtronaut Feb/March 2009.
Tracks 1 and 2 are studio versions of pieces I played as part of the Awakenings series of concerts at Paget High School And Business And Enterprise College, Branston, UK on 22nd Nov 2008.


Steve Dinsdale - New Church (2009)


A sense of cathedral reverence dominates much of this release, but that veneration soon gives way to more stellar expressions of speculation.

Heavenly keyboards establish a divine panorama, generating a luminous firmament that is swiftly populated by dreamy riffs of a very vaporous character. Church organs enter the flow, enhancing the overall divinity. The appearance of grinding mechanical elements grounds things with industrial hints.

Denser keyboards generate a psychedelic flavor that is punctuated by languid beats and eerie effects. The melody adopts a pensive demeanor, as if brooding over lost epiphanies. An airy vista is reached wherein solitary beats establish an imminent nobility in which electronics exchange mammoth sighs leading to glittering tones of inspirational definition.

The stage is now set for an emotional escalation. Contemplation perches on a vertiginous edge, surveying a realm of seething potential. Moody steel drums emerge from ponderous rhythms, generating a sense of expectancy, while stratospheric keyboards goad everything to dizzying heights. From this elevated vantage, haunting textures generate a spooky mien as the music brushed against the underside of heaven.

The keyboards adopt a more piercing resonance as the upward ascension continues, breaking through the ozone layer and entering interplanetary space. Expansion ensues, and more dire tonalities enter the mix, evoking masterful demands for states of being beyond hope.

Ultimately, a realm of true infinity is accomplished with regal keyboards supported by rich textures of glistening charm.

These compositions embody a voyage that begins in traditional theological terrain and evolves into more comprehensive doctrines that unify wonder with modern sensibilities. The listener provides a human perspective as celestial marvels are explored and states of divinity are shorn of all mysticism, ultimately reaching a level where true immortality is revealed to be cognitive creativity. /Matt Howarth - Soniccuriosity/

1. Introduction
2. New Church 1
3. Wright On
4. New Church 2
5. March for Peace
6. Moorland Dark
7. WDR 74
8. Gone Mission
9. New Church 3



2009. december 3., csütörtök

Terje Winther - Electronic Regions (2009)


Electronic Regions is the 2009 solo record from Terje Winther, a highly respected synthesizer musician from Norway. This CD is an auditorial walk through electronic forests of strange, exploring forgotten paths, otherwordly thoughts, nature and bricks of concrete.

The double CD moves through a multitude of auditory landscapes made with old and new analogue synthesizers. A combination of improvisation and sequencers develop a broad range of sounds and emotions, drawing inspiration from the time when music was visionary, grand and made for the future.

Electronic Regions is Terje Winther's second solo album of electronic music. In addition to his own work he has contributed to many electronic albums in Norway, Sweden and England, as well as albums and live gigs with his band, WintherStormer. Winther has been rewarded with positive critique for his concerts, and has been invited to perform concerts all over Europe.

All music is composed, arranged, performed, recorded, mixed, produced and mastered by Terje Winther.


Disk 1 (entering regions suite)
1. Time
2. And again
3. I Feel My Life
4. Repeating (Itself)
5. Over And Over (Again)