Already a year before with the release of their marvelous remix collection "Cloned – Other Side Of Evolution", the Slovakian duo DISHARMONY has started its career as being one of the outstanding horses in the stable of the Tympanik Audio label. It may surprises, that they’d considered to sign with them Audio, since the both protagonists of this project, Lord Sauron and Ryby, are known to be a bit suspicious to foreign scene people, since they’ve got often screwed in some or another way previously. Both are standing also behind their very own Aliens label and DISHARMONY is surely the flagship of it. But back to the music, because it seems that the dedication towards to Tympanik Audio has left a tiny impact on the music. Their predecessor studio-album "Malignant Shields" maybe marks the highlight in the long-year career of DISHARMONY thanks to the recognizable development to integrate rather fragile than dark sounding synth arrangements. To start comparisons, "Evolution" comes out more variable and with a more of toughness in its rhythm programming, but also lesser brilliant in its synth-play. This album has its highlights in the both opening and closing tracks, "Revolution" and "Evolution". In between it has been a bit challenging to pick out additional favorites, since the order of the track list offers some clumsy decisions. Highly important track numbers to keep on a thrilling float of the album like 2 or 4 got filled with rather standard-instrumental tunes, instead to place their finally discovered masterpieces like "Spirals" or "End Of Ends" in there. They also prove, that there can be a difference between a standard and a perfect arranged instrumental tune, "Izometrix" as being the best has to named. "Evolution" is of course a good and valuable album, still being an oasis in the yet leading Hellectro-related desert zone – but it isn’t their best work so far.

IT'S DARK BUT IT'S OK is the debut album by New York/Berlin group Notic Nastic. The thirteen songs of the album are kinda linked, because they talk about the different phases of a girl's grew. Not much a teenage sort of thing but more likely a collage of different life's moment. Characterized by a rich texture of treated female vocals, the album mix electro pop, punching distorted rhythms and dark instrumentals, covering a good variety of musical moments. Electronic pop tunes with nasty sounds and obsessive rhythmical parts are packed up to make you appreciate bouncing sounds as well as catchy melodies. Try for example "Stupid happy", "The luckiest pig in Albany" or the great "Das disk" and you'll realize that Notic Nastic are really good at composing dancey dark songs with minimal sounds (mostly a fat bass line/drums plus distorted layers here and there that enrich the final result). You can check every track at Shitkatapult's website. Be sure to visit that page!

What has initially started under the moniker WAVEFALL-light, has finally received a project name. SKAZKA is nothing else than a new side-project of one of Russia’s leading Electro/Industrial acts, WAVEFALL, in persona of Slava and Tat’yana. SKAZKA can be seemingly translated in some way into "Sounds of the Earth" and this translation works as a slogan for the both protagonists. It is in no way another harsh EBM-related sound outfit, but rather a document of the inhaled impressions both have reached while travelling the world. Arranged through a smooth and catchy Electronica-outfit, the chosen song titles like "Russian Field", "Ocean", "Mountain River", "Underwater World", or "Savanna" approving this precisely. This downloadable release, now newly signed to the Australian Tempest Recordings label and supported by the Russian Dead Channel, can be globally compared like this: what was INTERMIX for the Canadian cult-act FRONT LINE ASSEMBLY, means SKAZKA for WAVEFALL. A genre-bending acting side-project, with the sense to differ completely according to the discovered works of the main project. Contrary to the rushing and aggressive mood of WAVEFALL, SKAZKA convinces with unexpected catchy harmonies, clear song structures, a well-done synth-play and thoughtful arrangement. Several field recording sessions out of mysterious places they’ve discovered through their travels, have been integrated and accomplishing the smooth and peaceful impression, which this music suggests. The tracks on "Fairy Tale" can convince with ambience, but they don’t fall too much into the Ambient genre, it all remains generally quite consumer-friendly Electronic-minded. A marvelous prove, that Harsh-Electro musicians can be wise and skillful artists – a must-have item!

Newcomer talents out of undiscovered areas of Eastern Europe providing an uncompromising IDM/Electronica sound-outfit, seem to touch the ears and hearts of the Tympanik Audio label owner Paul Nielsen and his helpers.
[HAVEN] is a one-man music project out of Poland, consisting of Marcin Jamulski, who presents with "Plastic" his first album newly signed to this label. Previously he can look back on 2 releases for the Polsih label Rage In Eden. Musically mostly driven by dark and cold synth sweep-sounds, multiple voice samples to transport the content, varied field recording efforts and abrasive percussion drops, the 16 tracks on this album create a very own sound environment, which requires a bit more than the usual attention from the listener. Relatively straight and beat-driven tunes like "Marrakech" or "Takir Al-Masir" with their easy-to-follow, catchy synth-layers can be heard side by side with some static and mysterious sounding tunes like "Tell Me About Madness" or "Broken Childhood" – this album draws a fine line between a rhythmically urging for motion and an attentive listening experience. [HAVEN] seemingly manages hard to figure out an authentic kind of its sound, but it too needs to be said, that this act hasn’t reached perfection so far. Some tracks are drowning a bit too obviously into repetitions, also some of the chosen sounds could need an update, just to keep it a bit more thrilling. It’s a respectable debut with some minor flaws, so let’s continue to have an open ear for the further efforts out of this Polish [HAVEN]...

Mixing music and making out of it an entertaining album isn't simple but I found that Seth Troxler succeeded into the difficult job by creating a smooth playlist where he easily switches musical genres passing from electro to house, making a stop at the techno gas station. Troxler began his DJ career in 2002 at the age of 16, playing at Detroit club "The Works" and working as a clerk at Detroit’s famous "Melodies and Memories" record store and since then he improved his skills remixing for Minus, Adults Only and Fever Ray to name few. Upbeat tempos and mid tempos are alternating with ease and this is so evident into the passage from Kiki's "Cinema Obscura" to the following Nicolas Jaar "Time For Us". Released into these days this is a compilation you'll gladly want to check! Here's the tracklist:
01 Seth Troxler - Intro
Ryan Crosson - Amb 1
02 The Royal We - Party Guilt (Dinky's Arp-A-Pella)
03 Luciano - Fran Left Home
Mike Shannon - Sweet A Pella
04 Craig Smith & The Revenge - The Soul Part II
05 Baeka - Right At It
06 Dinky feat. Update - Westoid
07 N/A feat. Rosina - Fables and Fairytales (Deniz Kurtel Remix)
08 Spektrum - Freakbox (Richie Hawtin's Uncontrolled Edit)
09 Alexi Delano - Molar One
10 Jabberjaw - The Connie Shake
11 Heartthrob - Signs (Thrill Cosby aka Seth Troxler Remix)
12 Birds And Souls - Birds And Souls
13 Roman Flügel - Stricher
14 Fever Ray - Seven (Seth Troxler Remix)
15 Kiki - Cinema Obscura
16 Nicolas Jaar - Time For Us