Pure is Austrian born and Berlin based Peter Votava, who stepped into the music business somewhere in the beginning of the nineties. Since then, he has released many CD’s and 12†vinyls – his roots actually lie in DJ culture and as such he has established himself already in the hardcore/techno scene. In the mid …
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“Up, Down, Charm, Strange, Top, Bottom†reviewed by Liability
Alors que nous avions laissé Miguel Carvalhais et Pedro Tedula (aka @C) sur une belle collaboration en début d’année avec Vitor Joaquim sur le label Feld, les revoilà de retour au bercail pour un nouvel album qui s’annonce aussi sobre et mystérieux que sa pochette. En fait @C est assez fidèle à lui même. On …
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“Ification†reviewed by The Sound Projector
Veteran electronicist Pure is someone I associate with the Mego label, but his new release Ification is out on the Portuguese label Crónica. As far as I can make out, he hasn’t played a note of music himself but recruited various fine European avant musicians to contribute samples of their instruments, which he has proceeded …
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“Lovely Banalities†reviewed by Boomkat
Lithuanian sound artist and composer Gintas K returns to Cronica with a selection of self-confessed Lovely Banalities – a set of beautiful auditory trifles, often rather short and lacking in any defined sense of structure. These are more like objects, loitering around in the ether and establishing loop-based sequences like ‘Q’ or the strange and …
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“Praxis†reviewed by Neural (english edition)
With sudden audio constructions, electro-acoustic and microsound influences, the Turkish multi-instrumentalist Cem Güney (who can boast past experiences as DJ and trumpet player) gives birth to a fascinating sequence of synthetic sounds and field recordings for the Portuguese experimental label Crónica. Compositions orbiting around an authorial attention focused on the perception of fragments, in forms …
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“Digital Sound Drawings†reviewed by 5 against 4
Many moons ago, i wrote a lengthy retrospective of the work of Ryoji Ikeda, creator of some the finest raw digital music yet created • It’s an unfortunate corollary that Ikeda, like all great innovators, has a sizeable cluster of imitators (‘flattery’ be damned), many of whom form part of the now woefully tautological output …
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“Berlin Backyards†and “Ification†reviewed by Vital Weekly
One of the things I like Berlin (and some other German cities), is the backyards which houses. A small entrance and then you are surrounded by four sides of houses and apartments, and which are excellent for parties, concerts and such like. A form of social control also, that might be the downside, but I …
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“Filare†reviewed by 5 against 4
This is another free download album from Crónica (available here), intended to “produce sustained music which at the same time would contain movement and harmonic richness”. Filare is, indeed, rich, & its ambient textures are ever in flux, ever at the boundary between commanding interest & being (to use Eno’s term) “ignorable”. It is highly …
“Berlin Backyards†reviewed by Rockerilla
Quando si tratta di complicare l’ascolto la portoghese Crónica non è seconda a nessuno. Gilles Aubry è un ingegnere del suono svizzero con il pallino per i field recordings. Nel 2006 he ha registrati un bel po’ in giro per Berlino. Dopo averli rimaneggiati con i suoi calcolatori elettronici li ha assemblati in un blob …
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“Nocturnal Rainbow Rising†reviewed by 5 against 4
Ran Slavin’s latest release is another free download, from the excellent Crónica netlabel. It’s a disc that demonstrates real skill at shaping sound, as well as formidable restraint, the tracks given space to develop at their own pace, never seeming forced along. Its use of bass frequencies to punctuate the material is very striking; “Pure …
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