Musique Machine Reviews

From Musique Machine:

Shadows Ground – In Eternal Coldness of the Night
‘In Eternal Coldness of the Night’ is the first full length album by cold, barren and lo-fi Ukraine based black metal project Shadows Ground. The albums production and song craft summons up the feeling and vibe of Darkthrone’s Transilvanian Hunger, yet this still has it’s own cold and often clamouring identity about it with some quite dark and melancholic harmonic riff traits here and there among the dark and cold gitar tone.

Venta Protesix – Complexed
Venta Protesix is a Italian based project who specialize in playful and teeth gritting electro shredding noise with a hints of overloading and abused gameboy
electronica. ‘Complexed’ is the projects first full length release and first proper CD after they put out a CDR back in 2008.

Yannis Kyriakides – Antichamber
Yannis Kyriakides is a Cyprus born composer and sound artists who now resides in the uk. He composer/arrangers works that often mix electronic and acoustic elements in a creative and rewarding manner which join together: computer composition, unusual use of sometimes outdated or quirky modern technology and hints of traditional Greek Cypriot music. All to create a sound that is both sleek, modern, atmospheric and edgy yet ever so often takes a trip backwards to the past for hints at the music of Kyriakides homeland and youth.

Art Giraffefungal – Black Porridge Kaleidoscope
‘Black Porridge Kaleidoscope’ offers up a selection of thick, juddering, slightly noise bound and darkly crude beat-less synth scapes that at first start out vaguely atmospheric and marginally intriguing, but soon becomes more than a little repetitive, bland and samey when spread out over a full albums length.

Gunslingers – Manifesto Zero
The flag erected by America’s R&B garage bands of the sixties, made freakier through psychedelics by the end of the decade to become such a dominant force in shaping the punk sounds of the seventies, is still aloft and flying wildly as ever thanks to the likes of France’s Gunslingers. Their second album, Manifesto Zero, is a straight-to-tape set of ecstatic psyche punk that faithfully follows a wayward path laid down by the hardiest of hedonists before them (Texas’ Butthole Surfers and the UK’s Gaye Bykers On Acid often come to mind).

Dead Body Collection – Dental Butchery (Endodontics Madness)
The wonderfully entitled ‘Dental Butchery (Endodontics Madness)’ finds Serbian based Dead Body Collection(aka Dr Alex who’s also in the excellent Harsh Noise & HNW two piece C. T. D .) offering up two lengthy twenty five minute slices of thick and rewarding HNW matter with a distinctive clinical yet sadistic air to them; like the sonic equivalent of psychotic dentist calmly and methodically removing your teeth at random as your mouth over fills with blood, stringing gum flesh and severed nerve endings.

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