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“Residual Forms†— one of the 10 best EPs from 2014 by 5:4
Monty Adkins’ work continues to plough increasingly deep furrows into material at the meeting point of ambient and experimental electronics. The results are uniformly beautiful, and this short piece is no exception, slow shifting chords and clouds matched by episodes of more blistered music, positioned with Adkins’ typically unerring skill so as to draw out …
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“Transmissions†reviewed by Spex
Mathias Delplanque macht etwas, das beschrieben vielleicht abgedroschen klingt – Musik mit alten industriellen Maschinen –, aber wirkt wie der wahnsinnigste psychedelische Strom diesseits des Altersheims für überstrapazierte Deleuze/Guattari-Metaphern. Man vergisst mit Transmissions (Crónica) die Quellen sehr bald, hat auch keinen Unheimliche-Genauigkeit-Flash, sondern kann sich ganz dem unausgesprochen perversen Gemeinsamen zwischen Maschinenglück und Regelmäßigkeitszwang hingeben. …
“Transmissions†reviewed by The New Noise
Immaginate di essere all’interno di una fabbrica: vi sentirete subito soffocare a causa dell’aria irrespirabile e avrete la sensazione di rimanere storditi dai rumori metallici e di essere inghiottiti dall’oscurità delle pareti impregnate di olio lubrificante. È in questo luogo che l’uomo si aliena da tutto e da tutti, diventando una macchina. Transmissions è proprio …
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“Transmissions†reviewed by Skug
Und da wir ohnehin schon auf Ambientabwegen sind, können wir schließlich noch die CD »Transmissions« von Mathias Delpanque dazu packen. Die ist, was die Genreheimat betrifft, hier nun wirklich fehl am Platz, denn der Franzose Delplanque macht in Elektroinstallationen, basierend auf Maschinensounds, also Webstühle, Drehbänke, Schweißgeräte, Kreissägen und was es sonst noch hinter schmutzigen Fabrikfassaden …
“Transmissions†reviewed by Rif Raf
Alors que ses ‘Chutes’ de 2013 ne nous avaient que moyennement convaincus, pour ne pas dire autre chose, le cru 2014 du producteur français est d’un tout autre acabit. Tout en jouant avec les codes et astuces du bruit et du concret, ses ‘Transmissions’ (Crónica) varient à la fois les formes et le fond. D’entrée, …
“Ab OVO†reviewed by Ear Influxion
Ab OVO originally came to be as the score for a performance by the puppet theater of Porto, developed in late 2011 and early 2012. For this post-mortem recorded edition, the experimental duo of Miguel Carvalhais and Pedro Tudela reworked the 19 compositions that constituted most of the play’s sound into this more concise, 6-track …
“Transmissions†reviewed by Onda Rock
Dopo il sorprendente passaggio organico di “Chutes†offerto a Baskaru l’anno scorso, Mathias Delplanque torna ad accasarsi presso il più austero catalogo Crónica sul quale aveva già visto la luce il lodato “Passeportsâ€, contravvenendo pure alla sua usuale anti-prolificità . Sulla sound art in perenne equilibrio fra field recordings e soundscape digitali del portoghese il discorso …
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“Lemuria†reviewed by Neural
This project is authored by Giovanni Lami and Enrico Coniglio, recorded by Miguel Carvalhais and enriched by the charming artwork of Dead Meat. The vinyl edition of Lemuria immediately grabbed our attention with its universe of sounds. These recordings were not made in a studio, but in an abandoned house and have a certain ‘clotted’ …
“Transmissions†reviewed by Babylon
Transmissions by Mathias Delplanque