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Streaming: Almeeva - Oblite EP

Band: Almeeva
Album: Oblite EP
Label: InFiné
Year: 2016








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01. 4 Bells
02. Part Fiction
03. Dissolver
04. There Is A Light (The Smiths Cover)
05. Again
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With Oblite, his second EP for InFiné, Almeeva reconstructs his sonic aesthetic on new grounds, oscillating between cinematic indie and modern post-trance.

Astonished by Paris events in 2015, the artist’s voice become more elusive. His compositions make way for sharper beats and his synthesizers take up new challenges, to which words have proven powerless. The five tracks of this new EP make us rise up against the events which are beyond our control.

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EP: Arche - Origin

Band: Arche
Album: Origin EP
Label: Self Released
Year: 2016








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01. Abyss
02. Entropy
03. Entitas
04. Her
05. Burning Nebula
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Arche is an electronic side project of one of Lost In Kiev guitarists.

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EP: II - Hanam EP

Band: II
Album: Hanam EP
Label: Self Released
Year: 2015








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01. Shhh...
02. Mloe
03. Ósmosis
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II is a 3 member post-rock band from Chihuahua, México with some beats infused into their melodies.
For fans of Almeeva & Maserati.

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The Inquisition: 044.Platonick Dive

1. How did you came up with the name of the band?

Platonick Dive is something that you can feel but you can't touch. It's something that really exist but you can't see. Like the platonic love, the Platonick Dive is an abstract immersion into today's society.

2. Do you have a standard procedure of creating a song? Do you just jam around or is there a main riff and the track is build up on it?

It’s never easy to explain about the writing process, ‘cause every track has different story and different inspirations. Writing is what we really enjoy doing, always exploring the many depths of electronic music, trying to discover that particular sound. Sometimes it comes from a piano or guitar riff, sometimes it comes from a synth line or electronic project.

3. What are your influences and what kind of music do you hear when you are at home?

Our music comes from everyday life, so everything and anything could be an inspiration. We are great listeners of different kinds of music: electronic, classical, psychedelic, instrumental. Our main music background comes from the American alternative '80-'90s scene. Also literature and graphic art are great inspirations.

4. Which is the one album you can't live without?

"In Utero" (Nirvana), but also "Dirty" (Sonic Youth) and "Immolate Yourself" from Telefon Tel Aviv.

5. What's the first record you've ever bought?

Probably "Nevermind".

6. Name a band that you would like to share the stage or tour with?

Battles.

7. Did the internet and specially the blogs help to spread your music around the world? Name a place (country) that you were surprised to know your music has reached to?

Yeah, the internet helps a lot to spread our music around the world. Russia and Eastern Europe in general are countries where our fan base is growing a lot. And the internet is essential.

8. Do you support the idea of bandcamp where fans can decide the price or services like Spotify?

Yes, we really like Bandcamp's idea. You put your album with a standard minimum price and then the fans decide what they want pay. It's a brilliant idea! Spotify has some positive aspects but also some negatives. It creates a strange process.

9. Where do you see yourselves in 5 years?

We don't know. We will probably still be trying to write cool songs, because music is more important than everything.

10. Is the artwork of an album important nowadays in the digital era?

Yes, absolutely. 'Cause today, when you see a cool artwork from your laptop...it's always something that captures your attention. And your fans, who buy the album (CD or vinyl), want to touch the album, feel the "physical" of the music.

11. What is you favorite album cover?

Sonic Youth - "Goo".

12. It seems that a lot of people are turning on vinyl again. Why do you think that is and which is your preferable media format?

As we said, the real fan want the physical album formats. Vinyl, more than CDs, is a format that can really give you this sensation. In the digital era, when you buy a physical copy of an album, it means that you are really into that album. So it's a very different sensation to listen your favorite artist on vinyl instead of from a smartphone.

13. What's the most vivid story or moment as a band?

When we shared the stage with Efterklang on our first European tour. It was totally crazy!!!

Platonick Dive recently released their amazing album "Overflow".

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Streaming: Platonick Dive - Overflow

Band: Platonick Dive
Album: Overflow
Label: Black Candy Records
Year: 2015








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01. Spoken Noise
02. Please Dance Slowly
03. Above You
04. From Seattle To Berlin
05. Underground Connections
06. High Tide
07. Mirror
08. Geometric Lace
09. Reverb Overdose
10. Backing Home Boulevard
11. The Best Is Yet To Come
12. Jet-Lag
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Describing themselves as "silence against noise" the pause-for-a-thought statement couldn't, in fact, be more accurate. The group create electronic tinged post-rock in a beautifully experimental way - with a finished product of brilliantly crafted haunting and ethereal songs to form an outstanding and critically acclaimed catalogue. Already making waves in Europe, it's now time for North America and the rest of the world to take notice and be swept up in the cool as hell soundscapes of Platonick Dive. For fans of The American Dollar and 65daysofstatic.

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The Inquisition: 031.stonefromthesky

1. How did you come up with the name of the band? 

Well, if you are familiar with 'A Sun That Never Sets' album by the mighty Neurosis, then it should not be too much of a riddle. I listened to the closing track a lot at the time, and using the name of the song somehow appeared to me pretty clever and appropriate. Of course, I couldn't suppress the urge to use singular form instead of plural, to write everything in a lower case, and to glue all the words into one. 

2. Do you have a standard procedure of creating a song? Do you just jam around or is there a main riff and the track is build up on it? 

The procedure is different all the time. The thing that is constant is an idea. I always start with it. Sometimes I just pick up the guitar and come up with a cool piece. Sometimes I just tweak some sort of synthesizer and somehow come up with a theme. Other times I can just record a sound of a train or my own voice, or whatever and distort it so much that it becomes something completely different. Then I build up a full track from there. I just listen to it and think what it needs. My imagination paints a picture and I try my best to express it. Regarding the train. Half of the instruments in the track 'Weightless' were made out of a single sound sample - interior of a moving train. 

3. The combination of post-metal/sludge with breakcore/idm/glitch is the most original/interesting combination I've heard for a while. How did you end combining those two genres? 

I like them both. This combination is completely natural for me. I know that lots of people tend to choose either side and close their minds to another. This phenomenon created a stereotype that it is impossible to combine these genres properly. Well, this particular challenge boosted my inner artist even more. In my opinion, genres are nothing but fancy words. Music should never be confined into any particular genre prison because this kills any artistic effort. You know, something like "I feel that this latin beat should sound cool here, but I won't use it because we play metal", etc. Finally, stonefromthesky is not limited to post-metal/electronics. New album should be broader than that. 

4. What are your influences and what kind of music do you hear when you are at home? 

My music was influenced by many bands. Neurosis, Rosetta, Cult of Luna, Apparat, Deftones, Dryft, Massive Attack, Down, Gridlock, Venetian Snares - to name just a few. Additionally, there are lots of other things that inspire me. For example, woods, cityscapes, paintings, books, movies. Anything I find awesome. What music do I listen the most now? Again, to name just a little fraction - Massive Attack, Morphine, The Doors, Led Zeppelin, Apparat, Swans, Rosetta, The Chariot, Every Time I Die, (Hed) P.E. 

5. Which is the one album you can't live without? 

It is a hard question. I can't answer it right away because I like LOTS of music. However, to be fair, 'Mezzanine' by Massive Attack is my numero uno at the moment. 

6. What's the first record you've ever bought? 

I guess it was 'Dynasty' by Kiss. These guys sure knew something. 

7. Do you have any plans of touring and playing these tracks live and if yes how will it work as stonefromthesky is an one man project? 

Yes, I already play live. I perform by myself (similarly to electronic artists like Long Arm) and people seem to dig it. However, I'm not yet happy and I try to improve every time. Also, I tried to play with a drummer and it sounds cool too. Maybe this will be another way of performing live, but it's too soon to say. 

8. Name a band that you would like to share the stage or tour with? 

Any good band. 

9. Did the internet and specially the blogs helped to spread your music around the world? Name a place (country) that you were surprised to know your music has reached to? 

Yes, of course. Your blog in particular helped a lot. However, I don't really track my music. 

10. Do you support the idea of bandcamp where fans can decide the price or services like spotify?

Yes. I believe that music should help people, broaden their horizons, paint their reality with brighter colors. 

11. Where do you see yourself in 5 years? 

I don't know. I live in the moment. 

12. Is the artwork of an album important nowadays in the digital era? 

Making great music should be the utmost goal of every artist. However, we live in the era of impatience. And picture is the fastest media out there. Way faster than sound or video. Yes, you can say "fuck it", but isn't it a bit square - to put lots of effort into your music and cover it with a shitty image? 

13. What is your favorite album cover? 

Again, I can't pick one. I like the cover of Led Zeppelin's first album a lot. Maybe because I'm a fan.

14. It seems that a lot of people are turning on vinyl again. Why do you think that is and which is your preferable media format? 

It is easy to answer. Vinyl gives you the highest quality of sound. As for me, I pay much more attention to the music, not a format. Although I like tapes a lot. 

15. What's the most vivid story or moment as a band? 

It was really cool when I left everything and lived in a house in a forest for a week. It was a distraction-free pure creative experience. You know, when you have nothing except music and woods. Such reclusion is absolutely necessary to sort things out in your head and to create stuff.

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17. Apparat - Krieg und Frieden (Music for Theatre)

 

Band: Apparat

Album: Krieg und Frieden (Music for Theatre)

Label: Mute
Favorite Track: LightOn

 

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Album: Obsidian Kingdom - Torn & Burnt

Band: Obsidian Kingdom
Album: Torn & Burnt
Label: Self Released
Year: 2013








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01. And Then It Was (Oktopus Remix)
02. Last Of The Light (Subheim vs Poordream Remix)
03. Awake Until Dawn (Necro Deathmort Remix)
04. Fingers In Anguish (Jr Morgue Remix)
05. Haunts Of The Underworld (Drumcorps Remix)
06. The Nurse (Larvae Remix)
07. Answers Revealing (Mothboy Remix)
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Exactly one year after the release of their acclaimed debut, Obsidian Kingdom continue to push all scene conventions by putting out a remix album.

Taking a huge step beyond rock and metal, Torn & Burnt offers a new and fresh approach towards Obsidian Kingdom's music, giving their fans the opportunity to rediscover these seven songs through the prism of electronic-related styles such as abstract hip-hop, ambient, breakcore, IDM or dubstep.

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EP: YOUAREHERE - Primavera

Band: YOUAREHERE
Album: Primavera EP
Label: Bomba Dischi
Year: 2013










Tracklist
01. Rest
02. December
03. About Me
04. Metaphysical
05. 1994
06. Primavera
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YOUAREHERE is an electronic band founded in Rome in 2011, whose members are Andrea Di Carlo, Claudio Del Proposto and Patrizio Piastra. Their sound features obsessive glitchy beats, wrapping electronic atmospheres and moving melodic crescendos.

Their 2011 debut, As When The Fall Leaves Trees (51beats), is a 9-track album offering hectic rythms, obsessive loops, reverberated vocals and dreamy piano melodies.

On April 2nd, 2013, YOUAREHERE have released, for the Italian label Bomba Dischi, their new 6-track EP, called Primavera. A juicy foretaste of the new full-length the band is already working on.

YOUAREHERE's live performance is characterized by cinematic visuals with striking images. The band showcases an uninterrupted sound, elegantly switching from ambient post-rock atmospheres to distorted and dancing rhythms. Electronic loops play with releasing vocals, creating enchanting melodic overtures.

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Album: Drawing The Endless Shore - Don't Despair

Band: Drawing The Endless Shore
Album: Don't Despair
Label: Flowers Blossom In The Space
Year: 2011










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01. Tomorrow We'll Be Dying
02. In Death
03. The Disappearance
04. Warm Morning Raindrops
05. Her Simple Dreams
06. Lies Hurt
07. Empty Room
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Drawing The Endless Shore - is an IDM/trip-hop solo-project of Ukrainian musician Sergey Lunev (also known as The Best Pessimist). Band was formed in 2010 and the next year, he released his first full-length album “Don’t Despair” on Flowers Blossom In The Space label.

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EP: Field Rotation - Zeitreise Remixed

Band: Field Rotation
Album: Zeitreise Remixed EP
Label: Self Released
Year: 2012










Tracklist
01. Zeitreise
02. Zeitreise (Remixed By Quivion)
03. Zeitreise (Remixed By Frozen Vaults)
04. Zeitreise - Furtiva Lagrima (Remixed By Ma.Ter)
05. Zeitreise - Frozen (Remixed By Leonardo Rosado)
06. Zeitreise - Lost: Gold Heart (Remixed By y0t0)
07. Zeitreise (Remixed By WhoIsIR)
08. Zeitreise - Zeitlos (Remixed By Lee Chapman)
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Zeitreise Remixed is the second self-released Field Rotation remix EP.

The original track "Zeitreise" was featured in the documentary score of "Neun Monate Winter" (Nine Months Winter) and has been composed back in 2009, when Field Rotation was more focused on down-tempo ambient music.

The EP features seven remixes. Some of them have been handpicked from a proper collection of remix submission during a contest that was open for a month and for everyone. Some have been contributed due to a personal invitation.

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