Resumo 2005 - parte 4

Para terminar a série de 12 albums, apresento 3 albums dos quais näo gostei muito á primeira audicäo, mas neste momento estäo bem lá no topo.



Larsen - Play, cd [Important] Electronic, Folk Rock, Experimental

What frequently got lost amid the amazing back-story that preceded the release of Larsen’s debut record for the Young God label was the music. The strange courtship of Michael Gira, the fact that they would never show themselves to him while he recorded their album, and the silk-cloth that sat between band and engineer were the main focus. And perhaps rightfully so. That being said, you could sit down with Rever and love it just the same without all that baggage.
Similarly audiences won’t benefit much from finding out that the group’s most recent recording Play, takes its inspiration from the melodies of Autechre. That’s because they were used as mere jumping-off points and are stripped bare of the accompanying rhythmic bluster that typifies the IDM stalwart’s sound. In fact, it’s a curious choice for the band, considering Autechre’s recent rejection of clear melody, in favor of the complexity of their rhythmic interests. Stylus Magazine




Phthalocyanine - No One Said You Didn't, cd [Planet Mu] Electronic, Abstract, IDM, Noise, Experimental

If Gabbacore was played by orchestras, “No One Said You Didn’t” sounds like its musicians tuning their instruments before an ear-grinding performance. Dimitri Fergadis is a veteran of this game, both as an artist and as curator of the amazingly astute and always challenging Phthalo imprint. When you think that artists as noted as Dntel and Daedalus emerged from his home-spun cottage industry, you get a good idea of just how on-the-money his selection skills have been. “No One Said You Didn’t”, despite the cacophanous racket, actually shows signs of the man as musician starting to mellow out. Nesstled alongside the crashing structures and tumbling, squashed breaks, you’ll find a finely tuned melodic determination with a decidedly blue slant. Almost like a jumbled-up Aphex Twin, keeping the edits tight, witnessed best on the killer rewinds decimated to full effect on “Hilbert Space” or the psyched-up adrenaline rush of the closing “Gunslinger’s Death”. A cracking start to the year for Planet Mu, good to have one of its earliest signings back for the party. Boomkat




Venetian Snares - Rossz Csillag Allat Született, 2x12".cd [Planet Mu] Electronic, Glitch, Breakcore

How can someone write a review for an album for which there are no words that describe its beauty? How can any simple human being be expected to produce an analysis and examination of a record that a mind – evidently – so evolved past my own created? How can Venetian Snares have written an album that not only marks the best work he has ever released, but that will probably never be even equalled?
Put simply, Aaron Funk has made an album that transcends everything we understand as ‘music’. Judging from the amount of negative comments generated by this album’s release, Rossz Csillag Allat Született is a record that will evoke wide-eyed confusion in the common man, and wide-eyed admiration beyond words in anyone who has honestly taken in music in the true sense. CD Reviews