The fifth release on netlabel mastik is Auroral Storm EP from Infuzoria (Ukraine, Kharkov) starts with deep slow drums, beautiful piano and mystic heaven pads in the first track. Continuing deep rhythms and atmospheric keys in “Io” and “Auroral Storm”, and EP end with beautiful, sometimes hard synth lines in track “Silhouettes”.
This time we travelled deep in the forests, seas and skies, to the last places where mankind has not yet covered itself and the earth with bitumen and pollution. Take our shovel. Start digging today and help to return the nature!
A long long time ago… In a forest far far away… Something blue was wandering around, searching for the sound… for the form… for the meaning and for the joy.
Who is DJ Shield you ask? An unknown electro-soldier from the Deep South, DJ Shield does for experimental/electronic/improv underground what DJ Shadow did for funk 45s and old school hip hop.
Warmly droning ambient-textures with plenty of endless space echo, like in the good old days, dominate the album. Melancholy, contemplation and calm prevail – nicely wrapped in mysteriously shining soundscapes with a kiss of lo-fi noise. “The Giant Woods” seems to be rather predestined for the dark Winter days to come.
Distance and Materials is Howard Dodd from West London, who has been releasing electronic music on and off since 1994. His first appearance was under the moniker Anoesis on D*fusion Records, and since then he’s also recorded as Oxidation and one half of Tongue, appearing on labels such as Octopus, Series 500 (Domino), Compost and K7.
After a long walk through the wastelands, we found the shell of a crashed vehicle of some kind. There was no indication of how long it had lain there and there was no way to tell if those in the vehicle had survived the impact. Debris was scattered across the barren land. While rummaging amongst the remains we came across the black box and decided to take it back home and try to decipher it’s contents….
«’Shaman Tones’ starts with a Hedningarna cover, unsuspiciously titled, yeah, ‘Hedningarna’, and with it Polish artist Artur Antonian sets the tone for what will come ahead: Drones, repeated patterns, pagan rhythms and world grooves. This is a long album and Artur tries with some success to cover diferent styles and feelings. ‘Flamenco’ grabs a set of spanish guitar chords and deconstructs them throughout; ‘Elves’ goes cyber futuristic with it’s blade runner-esque pads and beats; ‘Polka’ goes… ahem… polka style; ‘Shaman Tones’ sounds like a cleansing ritual and has someone speaking a strange language at times. And there’s some more for you to discover.
Most of the time ‘Shaman Tones’ feels like a sonic travel through a handful of cultures, states of mind and consciousness, moods or whatever. Breathe deep and come inside.»
This is Mirsch of Latex Distortion with his solo debut: Kultobjekt represents his softer side, dedicated rather to warmup sessions and afterhours than to peaktime stomping. As he starts, you will come think ‘This Must Be Morning’ – wake up as The Coffee Brings You Back. And when the day is gone and the sun is setting again, his sound is just perfect again when you’re Getting Hot For Evening: Dancin’ all night long till Next Morning Breaks. And after all that, Daniel Stefanik will tell you that for him it’s just the coffee, too, that brings him back.
So often do we go to bed, wake up (repeat) that we rarely stop to realize the adventure that our bodies and minds take us on each and every day. This dreamy 6-song EP successfully sets a soundtrack to this daily journey and takes into consideration that each and every time we put our heads on our pillows the outcome can be drastically different.
