| February 2009 news
February 24, 2009
DAILY DOSAGE
• tube'|158 - Siegmar Fricke - Autolysis
«Come and get another dose of 'pharmakustik'. 'Autolysis' is yet another sonic adventure from aural waves investigator Siegmar Fricke. Fricke is a veteran experimentalist and has managed to come up with a truly unique m.o. in music composition and arrangement. His works are an intricate web of sounds woven from scientific formulae and experiments translated from theory into practice. Siegmar calls this technique 'Pharmakustik', perhaps as a hint to the medical qualities of his creations. All os his releases follow a methodology and are the result of that same methodology.
About 'Autolysis' he writes:
"Decomposition of necrotic rhythm-cells within organic ambiences by the action of phaser-modules. The aural operator recycles the postmortal sequences from acoustic death by the process of bit-reduced autolysis." This is the experience you'll be listening to.
Enjoy your treatment.»
- Pedro Leitão
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February 20, 2009
DOPO REVIEWS
Added a couple of new reviews for the opus 'Blue Lands'. One from Eduardo Chagas 'Jazz e Arredores' and another from our friend Braindance. Both in portuguese. Check them out if you're able to decrypt our language.
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February 16, 2009
THE 'DOPE' COLLECTIVE
• tube'|157 - DOPO - Blue Lands
«Bittersweetness. Perhaps the word that best defines the nature and behaviour of humans. We are capable of the best and the worst, capable of love and hate, of happiness and sadness, luck and misfortune, we are both bitter and sweet at all times.
Bittersweetness is also one of the best
qualities that the music of the DOPO collective has to offer. You can find it in all of their songs, and that's what makes their sound so human, so unique. The power to make us happy and sad at the same time. And we wonder: 'how could we not love this? how could this not be part of our lives?'. And it couldn't, because DOPO's music translates into sounds the feelings we have while living our everyday lives. This is our sound.
'Blue Lands' is to be - unfortunately or not - DOPO's demise. After this, DOPO will end but their legacy is here for everyone to discover, and in a way, will live on in our memories. 'Blue Lands' is also the opening track of this release and probably the best song they've done, ever. But this album has some really beautiful gems inside, like 'The Long Red Fires of the Dying Day', the most Animal Collective-y of all tracks, minus the usual freakish beat. In this album we can also find the most loose DOPO ever, as they used a generous amount of field recordings in the compositions, of which 'Sea-lion of the Sea' is a great example of, and also one of my favorite 'under two minutes' tracks of all time.
You will find as well the usual hypnotic guitar strings all over the album, plus some special moments, like this one
in 'A Delicate Turn and Twist' which has a delicious distortion guitar which reminded me immediately of some of Sonic Youth's best musical moments. There's well placed drones in 'A Long Wave of Yellow Light', more 'around the bonfire' oddities in 'The Crowd of Little Men' and... I'm not telling you more. Just download this amazing album and find out for yourself.»
- Pedro Leitão
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February 09, 2009
TIDY KID REVIEWED
Netaudio fan Benoît Richard from Netlabels Revue did a nice review this weekend for 'One Week With My Casio', a digital and limited edition K7 release by Australian musician Tiky Kid. Thanks Benoît!
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February 07, 2009
NUMBNESS
• tube'|156 - project_unknown - Inner Suicide
«'Inner Suicide' is a dark journey into the realms of dronesy industrial and minimal techno (really really minimal, not the mainstream shit they serve at nightclubs), glitch and clicks & cuts (more cuts than clicks, actually). What remains is a dense and unconfortable feeling of displacement, a bit like when you have a very subtle head numbness that doesn't go away but doesn't really bother you anyway.
project_unknown is this twenty year old polish guy who also makes music under the aliases h_brida, kris_kelvin, nasty_squirell and synthetic_samba. With project_unknown he has done a release for Ninjah, a local polish netlabel.
Pretty good stuff.» - Pedro Leitão
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February 04, 2009
ELDINO DIXIT
Eldino (aka Rubèn) is big netaudio fan and Creative Commons activist from Italy, and he did in his famous blog a very nice review for last year's 'Shaman Tones', an album from polish based musician Artik. It is a complete review even with individual ratings for some of the tracks. The review is now at the release page.
Awesome work Eldino! Thanks for the support! :)
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