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Design experimentation

As you can see I am experimenting a bit with the layout. I have been thinking of a new and better way to separate reviews from other news, like announcements of releases that I did not review or just general ‘blog entries’. I am currently fairly happy with the result, but I do not yet have everything working properly. The stories and ‘blog’ entries can currently only be visited one by one, not in an overview. Also the rating-stars do not look too good.
So, some work in progress. I hope that you like the new design.

Most played music in 2013

Last.fm keeps track of what I listen to. I “scrobble” most of what I listen to, so this is fairly accurate. Not “scrobbled” is what I hear in the car. In any case, just to give you an idea, here are my most played artists in the last 12 months:Read More »Most played music in 2013

Uncoiled Loops

I got an email of Uncoiled Loops, a label that released a dark ambient compilation through Bandcamp. Besides dark ambient the label also has IDM and dubstep. Check out their Bandcamp if you are interested.

Three new Zoharum (and related) releases.

Zoharum from Poland puts out another three titles, one of which is made avaible by Noisen Records.
Synapsis “Officine Terraria Reworked”, reworked material of projects such as Zenial, Hoarfrost and Self Inflicted Violence. Sometimes soundscapes, sometimes dark ambient, sometimes noisy.
Lagowski presents Legion “False Dawn” a reissue double cd with weird field recorded sound collages.
Piotr Kolecki & Molok Mun “The Spices” and ambient noise soundtrack album.

For more information visit the Zoharum website.

25 Years Tesco

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Tesco Organisation has been around for 25 years and to celebrate this, they had a small festival in their hometown Mannheim at 16 and 17 november 2012. 8 Classic industrial projects made their appearance.Read More »25 Years Tesco

Martial industrial

A decade ago a selling line for new cds was: “sounds like Der Blutharsch”. Nowadays you have to sound like Triarii in order to sell cds. I listened to a few of these new stars in the field of martial industrial. My scepticism to the current state of the style is unfortunately confirmed grandly. Tethrippon is a Greek act with boring music and awfull vocals. The cheesy orchestrations are as bad as in the early days of martial industrial, but then they were at least new. Of Kazaria’s “Credo Nostrum” album I haven’t heard one complete song, my finger kept being drawn toward the ‘next’ button on the remote. Nebelkorona was the least uninteresting project. In fact, a few tracks on their “Tannenhochforst” are quite alright, but the rest are not…
Nope, my heart does not speed up hearing about the next great project in the field of martial industrial.

Duchess Says live

It has been a while since I got to know Duchess Says. A great band going from electropop to electropop to nowave extremity. A while ago to they released a new album and a European tour was announced! The timing was not perfect, but I managed to go to the Utrecht show yesterday. Read More »Duchess Says live

Sistrenatus in Europe?

Me and Harlow go back a long time. I liked his “ritual” project Funerary Call (now revamped as a noisy ritual project), later a new project arose making a Propergol kind of noise. Dark, industrial ambient, noise eruptions and harsch power electronics. Sistrenatus gives a lot of shows in Canada and the USA. Inspite of albums released on Hermetique and Cold Spring, there has still been no European concert. Now I only scribble some review every now and then. I do not organise concerts, not even know people who do, but if you, like me, think that it is high time for a European show of Sistrenatus (and Funerary Call) (preferably in the Netherlands, Belgium or the West of Germany!), try to interest some concert or festival organiser and finally make this happen!