Aires: Aires (Self Titled / Eponymous)
Aires aren’t about producing dance-able or humm-able music as we know it. Aires is an ambient shoegaze project from Portugal, producing the sounds of the landscape around us: metallic and mechanized and hollow.
Soni Sfardati: Saqiya
This is not my first journey into recordings that have mixed cultural origins. Unfortunately, many force cultural references to fit into western music molds. However I prefer the opposite: when western cultural influences are hammered into forms to fit within other cultures, or even completely re-invented to fit them.
Mooval: By Immersion
Moovals immersion is something to experience. The Italian art collective is more than just the pair of producers that have made a wonderful recording here.
Schlang: Little Information Deposits
Schlang’s information deposits has been described as “…knitting time into a sweater and lighting it on fire” which isn’t far from the truth.
Re:set: Resynthformation
Given the dubstep, house and techno parts of this release it must be time for me to Re:set that synthformation in order to review it.
Fingerprint: Delusions Of Graindeur
This recording was conceived as part of a masters thesis on granular synthesis, as such, the fingerprint of graindeur is all over this EP.