Since the beginning of the reproduction, it's quite clear Erik Tokle, aka Etokle, a talented composer and producer from Los Angeles knows many tricks to make ambient music, even if he also tries to intertwine chilled tunes with rock stepping or daydreaming refrains close to the ones by Robin Guthrie througout his side-project High In the Cemetery showing some many-sidedness off. In particular, he knows how to let a sound come in by thinning it down in a dense syrup of guitar carefully stretched frequencies or nebulized in the sound space before becoming more and more "concrete" or facilitating sudden changeover of sound-set as it happen in the very long initial suite entitled Bear Flag Revolution, a sort of tribute to his California, one of the fuzziest hotbed of the world for ambient experiments, lasting almost half an hour, portraying a sort of cosmic gradual ascension. The track oscillates between that kind of featheriness and a sort of goggle-eyed cryptaesthesia, which can be heard in some mental riding by Stars Of The Lid, whereas in La Mort Heureuse (inspired by the notorious novel by Albert Camus), the sound follows a sort of hyperbolic trajectory replaced by a penetrating guitar sound on his journey towards listener's consciousness. Not properly a drone! The final gentle pressure of the last track, queerly entitled Het Mechanische Gebied van De Slaap, seems immersed in the same aural pool where many minimal "ambientalist" washed their synths, floodlighted by those rarefied intimistic glares, that could please many fans of Sigur Ros or other borderline post-rock swimmers.

Tyske Ludder love to provoke and it's nice they had the coincidence that the release of their latest album DIASPORA met the success of the revolt in Egypt and the start of guerrilla all over the north Africa. Dedicated to all the people who are fighting for their freedom (one of the few English lyrics talks about modern politics that exploit people and economics), DIASPORA brings in new ideas: check the use of choruses and classic music, thing that recalled me the Laibach of the mid 90's, or the electro dancey driven sounds on "For their glory" (song that also has distorted and clean vocals duets). If you know Tyske Ludder don't be afraid, because they didn't lose their industrial touch and their hard rhythms. The thirteen new tracks of DIASPORA (sixteen into the limited edition) are able to show a multifaceted band that behind strong rhythms and e.b.m. sounds has a lot more to offer: subtle melodies, catchy atmospheres and intriguing musical solutions.

WAIT THE PROCESS is the second release on Battery Park for Robert Cosmic. After founding his own label Mars Frequency, Robert is back on the crime scene with three new tracks and a new version of 'Restarting My Robot' (the song that gave the title to the his first Battery Park release). The first track that opens the digital releaseà is the title track, one which is focused on minimal bass lines and a bouncy rhythmical patterns. Robert filters vocals with rising synth pads and alternating leads. 'Restarting My Robot 2.0' follows the same path but rhythms here are more robotic, the bass line is more electro syncopated and the atmosphere is tense. "So Far Away" is a great Detroit electro mid-tempo song with post-atomic atmospheres, crisp sounds and a slow, synth solo. "Cosmic breaks" is a bleepy instrumental which closes the EP with some upbeat tempos and minimal melodic variations enriched by acid leads and stop and go.
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Issued for the first time in 1982 by Trumpett, LA VIA DEL LATTE was the first Doxa Sinistra tape and it will be the latest Trumpett reissue by Enfant Terrible. The Dutch label already released on vinyl 'Conveyer Belt', the second Doxa Sinistra tape and now you have the opportunity to check eighteen out of twenty one tracks of their first great release (the intro, the outro and "Maurizio's minestrone" are missing into this 300 copies run reissue). Mixing minimal melodic synth lines, guitar riffs, sparse drum machine beats and analog noises with an experimental/industrial attitude, the band succeeded into creating a personal landscape made of short instrumentals (the longest track is three minutes long) characterized by alienated atmospheres where the vocals are filtered and duet with percussive noises and bleeping monophonic keyboards. Alternating fast and tense tracks (check "Ruhrgebiet" or "Kuomintang`s Space Blues") to experimental atmospheric ones (like "Via Del Latte 2" or "Via Del Latte 4"), Doxa Sinistra sounding sinister like a nuclear alarm siren. Spreading their sonic pollution all around your place, the Dutch band will convince you that it's better to sleep with one eye opened...

Coming from Brighton, UK, Manni Dee is releasing his latest single for Vermin Street. The EP contains two original tunes titled "Antidote" and "Universal symphony". The first one mixes Nintendo games bleeps with nice melodies, breaks and sparse vocal samples. The second ones has a laid back attitude thanks to mid tempo breaks and sci-fi vocal samples. Bleeps and melodies blend nicely creating, as for the first one, a cinematic atmosphere. The EP contains also two remixes of "Antidote" (Alby D Cheecky, Manni Dee's studio partner, turned the original tune into a dub/break number with a bit of experimental attitude and Rotterdam's Halp made of it a bleeping techno atmospheric track) and one of "Universal symphony" (now sounding two step and bouncing thanks to Moscow's Pixelord). Nice...