Sonomu Reviews

From Sonomu:

Platform, Four Elements (CDR Minimal Resource Manipulation)
Imagine the musical molecules of the now-iconic dub techno grooves of Basic Channel being battered about and damaged from within by an influx of free radicals. This is the gruesomely appealing sound of Platform´s Four Elements. Matt Atkins apparently prefers to release in short form, rarely…

Karl Amadeus Hartmann, Karl Amadeus Hartmann und das Streichquartett (3 CD Cybele Records)
Karl Amadeus Hartmann is one of those precious few heroes of the arts community of Nazi-era Germany. Born in 1905, he was a young but already established modernist composer by the time Hitler came to power. In protest, Hartmann immediately withdrew his music from public performance. In a regime…

DJ/Rupture & Matt Shadetek, Solar Life Raft (The Agriculture)
Like stumbling across the best radio station ever. DJ/Rupture´s reputation precedes him. He remade and remodeled the mix CD in 2001 with “Gold Teeth Thief” and he has always had one foot on the dance floor and the other in the art world, on both sides of the Atlantic. Matt Shadetek is as yet one…

Milica Paranosic, Give to Grow (Electroshock Records)
“Admirable” does not necessarily engender “interesting” – let alone successful – when it comes to art projects. But here is the proverbial exception that proves the rule. Milica Paranosic, a member of the staff of Julliard hailed by gatekeeper of the avantgarde Kyle Gann as a ”free-wheeling,…