Flatmax - Wideband Cold Fusion

Rate:7/10

I must say that I enjoyed his record much more than the previous The underground isn't finished with me. At Wideband Cold Fusion, the artist presents a mix of dark hip-hop and electronica, and though it’s not a perfect album there are moments that one may find interesting. The best tunes, in my humble opinion, are Android War and Central Transmission. The first is a nice journey in Dr Doom-style, while the second it’s very experimental and may not be appreciated by people that look for more chilled out compositions. Flatmax is generally disturbing and one has to deal with that ;-) Of course, there are moments that are simply boring or too much formal in its experiment for example, Fresh Region or Dyly Zone, the things that shouldn’t be called pieces, more an experiment documentation. I think if Flatmax tried to do some singles first, and than hit for a full LP that would have been better because people would have had time to get used to his quite difficult, perhaps even annoying style. It’s seven or now, but I look forward to other recordings, as it may be an interesting thing with time.

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Uniform Motion - Citizen Grave

Rate:5/5

Professional and intelligent music
I must say that the piece hit me in the right place. It's gentle but with this neurotic twist that makes rock indie and notBon-Jovi. Lead vocals are very in a genre type. Lazy, sharp but melodic and gentle at the same time. Production is very professional with all the sound details audible. If you like postrock-indie (for example Arab Strap or Broken Social Scene) not easy but rewarding kind of music this is a place to be!

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Macroform – Eclipse

Rate:8/10

It’s a solid piece of electronica, though it didn’t shake my view of the music scene. I quite enjoyed ambiental Eclipse, very melodic Juno Back and Aphex Twin-like Transient. My favourite track however is Feeling In space. In spite of a little bit pompatic title this is a really nice piece of ambient stuff very much similar to a Warp Records productions. Next, Into the Sea is quite similar and creates a nice musical trilogy with Swoosh, a composition that ends the whole album. Although there’s no thing I haven’t heard before on Eclipse it’s still recommendable as the production is quite professional.

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Mike Brindisi & The New York Rock - Trailer Park Girl

Rate:3/5

Too cliche
The biggest problem with that band is that they cannot decide whethwer they want to be Nirvana or Aerosmith. I liked the riff and the Cobain-like (although a little bit too smooth) vocal. The problem is that chorus is melodic is the sense hunderd other bands have it, that means one forgets about it after onel istenning. If the band would work on being a little bit more original that it would work, because both production and performance are really professional.

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Sergio Naddei - Chamber Music

Rate: 10/10

It’s not very common that people composing contemporary classical avantgarde music give away their albums on jamendo, so one may look at Chamber Music with suspicion. Well... He diesn’t have to. This two-piece record is a real gem through Creative Commons classical stuff. The composition is really well-written and skillfully performed with all those little distortions and aleatorations one expects from post-Cage, post-Schonberg classical music. It’s a truly expetional stuff, highly recommendable to every eleborated listener.

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RedWaterDub - WHAT IS THAT THING FOR?

Rate: 5/5

Truly experimental
It's a weird record, but I quite enjoyed it. Psychotic vocals (sorry, psychedelic ;-) interesting acoustic guitar and gentle rhythm section make this tune really a thing to ponder on. I like the atmosphere here, mixing experiment with melodies and quite easy-listening production and balancing that all, not an easy thing to achieve but it worked in this case. The chorus floats over the whole composition, quite hard to catch on it but the weirs samples through the song make it up for it. ;-) Generally, a ten out of ten.

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Elder Statesmen - Windy Way

Rate:5/5

Simply amazing!!!
I loved this record and I hope my enthusiasm won't be flawing with time. This tune has a light, melodic psychedelic atmosphere. I quite appreciated unusual rhythm section (clinks and clanks but very subtle and classy). Vocal is also one of the highlights. Maybe I have heard it before (Syd Barret with Pink Floyd, Archive) but it realy fits into the whole composition. The band has learnt its lesson of a classical but innovative song-writing in full. I give it the highest-rate recommendation.

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