Pleq

Based in Katowice, Poland; Pleq has developed his highly-synthetic competencies through a series of dis-reality attempts, monastery supervision and a romantic way of handling peer pressure. His motives in sound resemble an abandoned ironworks garage during the industrial revolution, where melancholy is paired with harmonies of magnetizing structure. Pleq's initial exposure began with a weekly residency at Elektro Klub, a nationally recognized sanctuary for circuit-fitted audience. Pleq, (Bartosz Dziadosz) is an ingenious experimental project, is showing his talent on his album called "The fallen love". Every track is well thought creation of very organic sounding electronica. It is very nice and deeply layered with glitchy patterns of clicks and warm synthetics. Vocal lines and voice cuts pop-up from time to time to lift these tracks to even a more warm happening to listen to. How cold his home country can be during wintertime, the more warmth he brings with every track that is deployed on this album. Pleq's music is the final answer to understanding social obedience trough sound. superb !

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Pleq - The Fallen Love

Label: vu-us
Catalog#: VU-US015
Country: Belgium
Released: 2009
Genre: Electronic
Style: Glitch, IDM, Ambient, Modern Classical

Tracklisting:

1 Fragment In My Life
2 Red Dog (feat. hiiro tent)
3 The Butterfly
4 Goodbye Nedai
5 Snow Story
6 Aspect Of Life
7 Do You Remember Your Dreams
8 Poems
9 Meet The Shark (feat. Magnitophono)
10 Pleq Is Dead
11 I Hear Her At The Door Now
12 The Seed (feat. Segue)
13 Don't Leave Me
14 The Fallen Love

Fabio Orsi

Audio For Lovers is a profoundly emotive double album. It sings with a pristine clarity, the musical medium transmitting feeling and atmosphere with a distilled purity. This is music straight from the heart, and indeed at times the album transcends all artistic form and becomes like a direct and untranslated expressive transmission. The first disc presents a slew of tracks, each a vignette of a particular mode of love in its polymorphic pathos. Curiously, every track is 1:40, 6:24 or 8:00 long, and the symmetries this produces are marvellous, ranging from short auditory haikus to more verdant and luxurious sound paintings. The music is dominated by slowly-unfolding synths, pads, organs, drones and the like; Orsi deploys deep banks and drifts of sound. Curiously, the effect is not so much to evoke atmosphere or a sense of horizon as such arrangements often do; rather the music plugs straight into the brain so that an emotional kinaesthesia is induced. Interwoven with the keys are some of the most subtle and delicately played pianos, guitars and basses I think I have every heard. Orsi relies heavily on repetition to draw the moment into maximal fullness and his subtle compositions draw us into different moods and atmospheres with grace. The theme might be love, but Orsi conveys great depth and, stained with the salt of suffering, the music never teeters into sentimentality or schmaltz. He weaves complex affective tapestries, knitting together different feelings with attentive and gentle brilliance. There is a profound joy running through this disc, but it is tempered by shadow and the result is unalloyed emotional apotheosis. Disc two presents only four tracks, though their combined duration is still about an hour. This disc is more heavily synth driven and ambient; while disc one generally maintains slow tempos and minimal structures, disc two really opens out and is perhaps a little less disciplined in this respect. The track titles are perfect illustrations of the experiences of the songs; “2 or 3 Moments in 1 Day”, for example, truly instils one’s spirit with the pensive existential weather of being human and alive. That said I did prefer disc one; I feel that thematically it is a little more coherent and compositionally the additional discipline enables it to pack more into less. Honestly, though, if this album only comprised disc two I would still really like, even if the deeper magic is on disc one.

Fabio Orsi - Audio For Lovers

Label: Last Visible Dog
Catalog#: LVD128-129
Country: US
Released: Sep 2008
Genre: Electronic, Folk, World, & Country
Style: Abstract, Drone, Experimental, Minimal, Ambient

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Disc One

01 Yesterday Love
02 Rising Love
03 Secret Love
04 Pure Love
05 Lost Love
06 Young Love
07 Tender Love
08 Last Love
09 Shining Love
10 Tomorrow Love

Disc Two

01 2or 3 Moments in 1 Day
02 The Psychedelic Power Of Bubbles (You And Me)
03 Before Long, Before Anyone, The Stars Will Be Walls In My Mind
04 Last Dream Lost Carefully

Molly Berg + Stephen Vitiello

Followers of electronic music should already be acquainted with the distinguished output of musician and sound artist Stephen Vitiello. His work has previously been published via labels such as Sub Rosa, while sound installations have been exhibited at the Whitney Biennial. Add to this collaborations with Machinefabriek and Lawrence English and Vitiello's CV reads very nicely indeed. Molly Berg comes from a very different background, having previously appeared on recordings by Cracker and Magnolia Electric Co. songwriter Jason Molina. The two Virginia-based artists came together for a soundtrack project commissioned by Brazilian video artist Eder Santos, whose video portrait of a lonely, zoo-dwelling gorilla (named Idi Amin) was the starting point. Although only a three-minute piece was required of the duo, they improvised their way through forty minutes of guitar, clarinet, vocals, field recording and electronics, the results of which then became the basis for this charming and beguiling album. The sound field on The Gorilla Variations carries an enormous amount of depth, with each piece representing a finely tuned balance of instrumentation, processing and sounds from the natural world. Above all else this is an approachably musical album, casting electroacoustics in a wholly accessible light - the pieces each take their different instrumental focuses and delve into collaged composition, playing melody against acousmatic timbre for a sonically gratifying intertwining of song structure and soundscape. Highly recommended.

Molly Berg + Stephen Vitiello - The Gorilla Variations

Enjoy: Part 1, Part 2

Label: 12k
Catalog#: 12k2013
Country: US
Released: Apr 2009
Genre: Electronic
Style: Abstract, Minimal, Ambient

Tracklisting:

1 Gorilla/Variation 1 (For Éder Santos)
2 Kora
3 Variation 2
4 E- VA
5 Variation 3
6 Geese
7 Variation 4
8 Horns/End
9 Variation 5
10 Dogs/Last Clarinet

Telefon Tel Aviv

This, their third album (Immolate Yourself) is the result and the essence of a development in their music, which you can trace through their previous work Fahrenheit Fair Enough (2001) and Map of Effortless (2004). Both see it in the same way: The record is still entirely Telefon Tel Aviv, but a cross processed filter saturated, grainy, distorted, dusty and distressed version. Immolate Yourself unites ten tracks with the aim to give the term electro pop a new definition for 2009. Although each track has its own story to tell, together they paint a bigger picture that encapsulates the Telefon Tel Aviv sound.

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Label: BPitch Control
Released: 20 Gen 2009
Genre: Electronic
Style: Abstract, Pop, Ambient

Tracklist:

01. The Birds
02. Your Mouth
03. M
04. Helen of Troy
05. Mostly Translucent
06. Stay Away from Being Maybe
07. I Made a Tree on the Wold
08. Your Every Idol
09. You Are the Worst Thing in the World
10. Immolate Yourself

Headphone Science

The line between electronica and outright musical experimentation blurs more on a daily basis. Richard D. James and Kid 606 are hailed as pop/underground culture heroes, bringing with them work that in the past would have been at home only in the most academic or at least iconoclastic setting. The up and coming Headphone Science mines this vein, drawing from the before mentioned artists as well as John Cage, Lee Perry, and The Orb in seemingly equal measure.

Headphone Science - With Lines So Clean

Label: True Call
Catalog#: true call 001
Country: Germany
Released: 2005
Genre: Electronic
Style: Abstract, IDM, Downtempo

Tracklisting:

1 They Have Headphones, Do You? (6:48)
2 Only A Passenger (6:14)
3 The Detective Flight Pattern (5:05)
4 Linear Soul Station (2:36)
5 She Sat Towards The Front Of The Bus (4:00)
6 So Much Circular (7:39)
7 Californian Sun Girls (4:30)
8 Arrow Off The Letters (3:10)
9 Follow Fads Like Sheep (4:19)
10 Focus Blurred Till Clear (3:41)
11 We Resin Like Strangers (4:50)
12 Have You Read The Travelogue Lately? (4:18)
13 Circle Pimpin' (4:06)
14 Until The Next Line (6:11)

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o9

It's not old school, it's old testament, not high-tech,
but high priest. It's as important as the fucking Bible. Cracking the egg code on total beat typography, o9 has written the first hard-driven masterpiece of this new dead-end, face-to-the-terminal century. All of which might sound like a snooty criticism but it's not. Throughout this patchwork of Autechre, Squarepusher, Aphex Twin there are great tunes, clever sonic tricks and hard-as-nails beats. And on final track Terminal Brown - yes, you can probably guess, they all have titles like that, Terminal Something - o9 goes some way to pushing things forward. It also has the fine advantage over many of those artists undeniably present here of being coherent and a sensible length, without too many insane shit-in-a-balloon-being-rubbed-with-an-electrified-cello-bow excursions.

o9 - Church Of The Ghetto P.C.

Label: Schematic
Catalog#: SCH 043
Country: US
Released: 2004
Genre: Electronic
Style: Abstract, IDM

Tracklisting:

1. Terminal Red (3:36)
2. Terminal Pink (4:33)
3. Terminal Orange (6:35)
4. Terminal Yellow (6:08)
5. Terminal Gold (1:59)
6. Terminal Blue (7:27)
7. Terminal Green (9:52)
8. Terminal Silver (4:41)
9. Terminal Grey (6:03)
10. Terminal White (4:24)
11. Terminal Brown (10:55)

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