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"...There is lots and lots of carefully played music here. The cover bears a sticker saying 'ambient - glitch - experimental electronic music', which is very much true. (...) The music pieces by themselves are pretty different from eachother, all however with certain limits of course - as outlined on the sticker. This makes this quite an enjoyable release..." (Frans de Waard, Vital Weekly)
[ Reviews ]
Sunao started working with synthesizers when he was 13 years old. He has a huge knowledge of analog and digital synthesis and is a key figure in the field of wavetable synthesis. Sunao has toured extensively in the past years, performing in Europe, the U.S. and Taiwan with other musicians and dancers, and around Japan. He runs his own label, Electr-ohm and C.U.E. records that releases and distributes experimental electronic music and IDM.
www.myspace.com/sunao
Farmacia [AR]
Farmacia is Ariel Sima (electronics, programming and instruments), Diego Sima (vocals, graphics and instruments), and Sebastian Rodriguez Porto (instruments). The Argentinean trio met in 2000 and released their first EP on their own label Discos Sordos. Following their debut "Musica Envasada" (2000) they released "Mal y bien a la vez" (2001), "13 Nebulizaciones" (2004) and "Nanas" (2005). Psych-O-Path Records (USA) has released an original cd compilation of both released and unreleased material that encapsulates the evolution of the Farmacia sound over the past six years called "Crucial Sky In The Land Of Premonitions At Lorenzo´s Weekend" (2006).
Farmacia and their peers have created an energetic and vibrant electronic music scene in Buenos Aires where they play various venues and festivals. They played at the BUE festival in Buenos Aires with bands like Massive Attack, Human League, Andrew Fletcher (DM). Recently Farmacia appears with the track "Estas Tecnicas" in the new compilation "Some Bizzare Double Album" (2008) on the legendary label Some Bizzare Records (UK), who have in the past released work by Cabaret Voltaire, Psychic TV,Soft Cell, Coil, Einstürzende Neubauten, Foetus.
www.farmacia-24hs.com.ar | www.myspace.com/farmacia24hs
Metheora [CZ]
Metheora is a project founded in 1999, as an overflow of inspiration - it was founded by a member of Jihlava´s Tábor Radosti. The aim has been production of dark-ambient sound that is the fertile land for neverending music, a pilgrimage through the living Universe as well as for secret missions into the human mind. This project is intended for those who are not afraid to immerse themselves in oceans of sound and a unique musical vision.
www.myspace.com/metheoraproject
Strangelet [CZ]
Strangelet is the one-man laptop project of Filip Skubal from Brno, Czech Republic and is a fusion of ambient drones, soundscapes and modern glitch electronica. The project was born in mid-2007 with "The First Artefacts" compilation released on co-founded netlabel Cryoworks. Strangelet continues to develop via succesful live performance and an extensive network of contacts in cyberspace.
www.cryoworks.com/strangelet | www.myspace.com/uncleclean
Alessandro Fiorin Damiani [IT]
Melonaut, Music-therapist and Tarot-reader; co-founder of projects Krajobraz, Kimikova and Denso Association. In 1996, he began to experiment with the language of analog sound and from 2003, he has been involved in ethno-music therapy combined with Tarot (Laboratory of Psicomelodia), in the sphere of psychiatry and occupational therapy. The directly-lived experience of psycho-ritual trance brought him to an holotropic image of the music.
He has opened gigs for Colossamite, The Flyingluttenbachers, US Maple, Laibach and Whitehouse. He is also involved with Teatro Satanico.
"Radioispirazione" is the title of a series of improvisations exploring the concept of radio aleatoric emissions. Aleatoric music involves the incorporation of chance and randomness.
www.myspace.com/alessandrofiorindamiani
Kora et le Mechanix [CZ]
Kora et le Mechanix explores the fields of abstract experimental ambient music. They came onto the scene in 2004 on a compilation of selected Czech and Slovak electronic music entitled "V/A: Out Of Place Artefacts" (Mufonic Recordinx). Michal Korán previously played in Richter Band and Forgotten Orchestra of Dreamland, and in 2003, received the Slovak DOSKY award for best score for the theatrical production of Peron. Filip Homola worked previously with Die Archa and Znamení kruhu. In August 2005, Kora et le Mechanix released their first single "Cape Canaveral" on Blue Lizard Records, and their long-awaited new album "Excursin" is finally being released by Next Era. Kora et le Mechanix enjoy playing live, and have supported a number of international artists, such as Biosphere, Fennesz, Phillip Jeck and Triosk, at their shows.
www.koraetlemechanix.com | www.myspace.com/koraetlemechanix
Mark Tamea [NL]
Mark Tamea (born 1964) is an English composer who has lived and worked in the Netherlands for the last ten years. Active primarily with electro acoustics and field recordings, his recent output exploits atmosphere and juxtaposition to investigate what he imagines are the hidden parallels between the discernible and the esoteric. His influences include Joseph Beuys, Marcel DuChamp and Marc Rothko.
www.tamea.org | www.virb.com/marktamea
Selectone [CZ]
Selectone was set up in 2004 by David Rambousek, a musician from the Czech Republic and the founder of Ressonus Records. He founded his technique of electronic experimentation in 1993. Recently he has explored the use of old and often damaged instruments to shape his sound - the circuit bending sub-genre. Selectone works with glitches, tape manipulations, sound deconstruction & recyclation and field recordings. His aim is to mutate and manipulate lo-fi sounds to achieve his unique artistic vision.
www.ressonus.net/selectone | www.myspace.com/selectonecz | www.virb.com/selectone
Emdy [GR]
Anastasios Kokkinidis is a composer, producer and musician, active in the electronic and electro-acoustic music scene. His compositions have a clear-cut experimental agenda, that retain a musical intensity and emotion, an amalgamation of detailed sound design taking on various music styles, from electronic music and experimental to cinematic, classical, minimal, avant-garde and dance music. Engaging in contemporary fields of composition, he creates the sense of contrast between the experimentalist scene and musical simplicity, stretching creativity and multiplicity in the production development.
He studied in Brighton, graduating in Digital Music, having specialised in sound production and composition; also studied classical music from 1986 to 1999, with the piano being his main instrument and Electronic Music back on 1996. Expanding his experience of different compositional areas in 2005, he completed a Masters' degree in Composing for Film and Television, in London. Nowadays he works as a lecturer in Music Technology & Sound Engineering and as a freelance composer and producer. Involved in the electroacoustic medium, becomes member of HELMCA (Hellenic Electroacoustic Music Composers Association), while working under the name "emdy". His music-works, for the last ten years, have been presented live through performances, installations and tape audio representations.
www.myspace.com/akemdy
Landschaft [UK]
Landschaft is about re-discovery, re-birth, resurgence. That marvellous Latin word Resurgam; "I shall rise again". It is about probing moods evoked by remembrance and experience where past histories are forgotten and maps are burned. Bones, ghosts and fragments of barbed wire are the only reminders of conflicts past. The flatlands of Northern Europe, scorched by conflict, destroyed, reborn, and destroyed again. A demolished City where wildflowers silently grow, cities renamed, reborn and renamed again. In the Landschaft, unbroken miles of conifer, 10,000 lakes where voices and music sink slowly to the lake floor. Where legends born of optimism and fear promise rescue and a reversal of misfortune. But in the borders, no one remembers and all that remains is dust. In distilling these mood feelings down, the listener adds in his or her own perceptions to generate a synergy - where one's own experience is added to one's perception of history to form a whole greater than the sum of the parts. The ode to joy or a prayer to the souls of the departed.
www.landschaft.co.uk | www.virb.com/landschaft
Stuzha [RU]
Stuzha ("severe cold" in Russian) is a new project by _Algol_ founded in 2007. The project is based on field recordings in Siberian landscapes with acoustic, electric guitars & other live instruments.
"Here is No Life Without a Fire" (from the first EP "Through the Snowfield") was recorded in the Siberian taiga forest during the frozen winternight time, when the temperature is below -25 °C. This piece shows that a man's life, in this environment is absolutely dependent upon the heat given by fire. A fire gives to a man a hope to survive, without it he's dead in few hours... It's a hymn to fire.
www.myspace.com/stuzha
Gurun Gurun [CZ]
Gurun Gurun is a semi-improvisational AV project formed in the autumn 2007 by guitarist Tomás Knoflícek (Miou Miou), keyboardist Jára Tarnovski (Miou Miou) and VJ Vunelopuchu (BabyPuch, Kolektiv). GG's musical work combines guitar, analogue synthesizers, drum machine and digital effects to span musical spaces ranging from hypno-minimalist atmospheres to warm tones of slow moving, repetitive melodic stanzas. Visuals are also produced based on sampling shots (from old school Slovak sci-fi TV series "She Came Out of the Blue Sky") are combined with a simple flash animations.
www.myspace.com/gurunas