Sunday, 31 January 2016
Moby – 18 (CD)
This is the follow-up of
`Play `, Moby`s ground breaking, worldwide success. It took him
three years to come up with this album. If I was in his shoes and I`m not, I
would spend a lot of time wandering where to go from here. I`m not a Moby
fan, so I wasn`t expecting anything. I was curious. I wanted to see what he
would come up with next. Life, existence itself is never perfect. There`s always
good and bad things happening. Let`s start with the BAD VIBES
department:
A – The first track: we are
all made of stars, sounds like an old David Bowie song:
`heroes`.
B – To use computer language
this album could be titled `play version 2.0 `. You could also say it`s a
copy and paste version of `play`.
The GOOD VIBES
department;
A – This album came out in 2002
and hasn`t aged a wee bit.
B – The whole thing is a great
mix of vintage jazz, trip hop, electronica, downtempo chillout and melancholic
atmospheres.
My favorite songs are:
8 – Fireworks (2.13
minutes) = outstanding instrumental, minimal, melancholic
electronica.
10 – jam for the ladies
(3.21 minutes) = rap + downtempo electronics = infectious grooves on the dance
floor baybee! You want some, come get some here: http://www.moby.com/
Various Artists – Chillout (CD)
This came out in 2003 on
Guidance records. An international compilation (10 tracks = 49.55 minutes) with
the following bands / artists: Projections (Los Angeles, USA), Toka
Project (Nottingham, UK), Caia (Japan), Bent (UK), The
Dining Rooms (Milano, Italy), Butti49 (Norway), and Flunk
(Norway). It reads on the back cover of this CD `sit back and enjoy and
evening of modern lounging with this laid-back collection of chilled-out
grooves `, yeah right, I`m thinking. I bought this out of sheer curiosity
(and the fact that it cost me 2.00 $ at Renaissance Montréal helps). I`m
a sucker for cheap publicity. I was expecting commercial crap, maybe one or two
good tracks. I was wrong here. Yes your honor, I confess. I`m surprised. In fact
this one`s a good surprise. You will hear different music styles: lounge mixed
with cool jazz vibes (luminate part 2, be free), lounge with funk
+ trip hop elements thrown in (whose blues), downtempo + lounge +
electronica (strictly bongo), chillout funk & lounge (you,
sei tu), spacy retro futuristic lounge (afterwards @ the
bar), lounge with a Latin American feel (samba olympo), and dreamy
chill out lounge Sunday people). It`s minus 20 outside. I`m sitting home
enjoying a warm coffee, sitting on my favorite chair, having a sip while
relaxing, chilling out. Untrue. I`m chilling in, inside relaxing, enjoying
life`s simple pleasures. Warm music for cold days. It feels good finding some
spare time, escaping modern life`s numerous stressful situation and
relax.
Chaos as Shelter – in the shelter of chaos (CD)
Second album from Vadim Gusis
an Israeli artist. Aside from Chaos As
Shelter, the only other Israeli artist I know are Infected
Mushroom (a world famous psy-trance duo). This came on The Rectrix
record label (which folded after the death of it`s owner, Matt Gibney, in
early 2006), so prepare yourself for a walk on the dark, noisy side of things.
There`s nine tracks, for a total running time of 64.49, which makes this one a
nice and long release. This album has it all: blurred out vocal samples, subtle
noise bytes here and there, ambient noise, weird sonic experimentations,
elements of minimalism, various banging, processed voices / incantations, bells,
processed screams, lo-fi rumblings, processed electric guitar, some grinding in
the background, rhythmic noise and a good dose of ambient darkwave. The
soundtrack for unnameable things bumping in the night. A dark gloomy listening
experience (works great with headphones). `That is not dead which can eternal
lie, and with strange aeons even death may die` (H.P. Lovecraft). Highly
recommended. Contact: lkot@tiltan-se.co.il
Friday, 22 January 2016
Phaerentz – autofinger (CD)
Phaerentz
is Petr Ferenc`s (from Czech Republic) solo
experimental music project. The album consists of one single untitled track
(48.59 minutes). Upon the first listen, this one sounds like a long, repetitive
piece of music. It took me a couple of times to appreciate this. It sounds
better after multiple listens. There`s a lot of subtle stuff happening in the
background. This songs starts with some drones + ambient noise. Later on, I hear
some percussions / banging going on mixed with found sounds and / or field
recordings. Then it goes into minimal musique concrete territory with elements
of minimalism and lo-fi noise bytes. Good work Petr! Get your information here: http://phaerentz.bandcamp.com/
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