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DJ Magazine - Album Of The Month
The Black Dog - Radio Scarecrow - Soma
If any one UK outfit was responsible for taking the Detroitian templates and blending — rather than bastardising — their boundaries into something genuinely innovative, then that would be The Black Dog. Remaining as invigorating as ever, visionary early-’90s works like ‘Temple of Transparent Balls’ and ‘Spanners’ might have been tagged ‘intelligent techno’ but their cutting edges bled influences into d&b, ambient and electronica. Now a reshaped trio (Ed Handley and Andy Turner long departed to continue their Plaid project), original member Ken Downie and kindred underground spirits Martin and Richard Dust have spent three years labouring on this latest sonic masterpiece.

Beautifully crafted throughout, The Black Dog’s signature mosaic-perfect detailing and deeply complex imagery is at once at work on the uncurling ambient reflection ‘Train By The Autobahn’. Upping the pace, ‘Riphead V9’ is deep techno with enough layers to spend hours lost in, ‘UV Sine’ is a majestic string-laden soar whilst the ambient sci-fi dub dread of ‘Floods
V3.9’ and ‘Beep’ permeate the current techno/dubstep boundaries perfectly. But where ‘Radio Scarecrow’’s electronic frequencies truly charm the soul is on measured melodic tracks like ‘Digital Poacher’ and ‘Witches Ov’, where moments of genuine contemplative bliss emerge out of mournful beauty with an intensity not matched by anyone. Never has techno felt quite so human.
Allan McGrath
Mint track: ‘Witches Ov’
5 Out Of 5

nikita_golyshev

[	Current Location	|	Moscow	]
[	Current Mood	|	calm	]
[	Current Music	|	Astrowind	]

Astrowind — “Fresh Wind in the Valley of Dreams”

Astrowind might be a slightly ridiculous band name, especially if you consider the fact these two Latvian guys play lush ambient music on Soviet synthesizers. But nevertheless, it’s a good name. An accurate name, at least. Because there is a feel of acroamatic escapism, there are these huge chords of hissing analogue synthesizers and you can even find this special kind of Slavonian melancholia (or Baltic, respectively) people use to rave about. Astrowind bring up a lot of references in their beautiful and, well, obsolete music (text by Swen Swift).

This is the full-length album by Astrowind wich leads listener to the world of supernatural reality - the world of blossoming syntesizer-pads and carefully built soundscapes.

Artist: Kaeba
Title: IANUREK 5.0 X 100
Stile: IDM, ELECTRONIC, EXPERIMENTAL
Lenght: 50 minuti
Where: ROMA
When: Marzo 2008
Performed by Kaeba

1. KAEBA - X1 (6:58)
2. KAEBA - X2 (5:17)
3. KAEBA - X3 (3:06)
4. KAEBA - X4 (1:12)
5. KAEBA - X5 (6:27)
6. KAEBA - X6 (4:19)
7. KAEBA - X7 (4:20)
8. KAEBA - X8 (3:39)
9. KAEBA - X9 (14:39)