The long-awaited debut of the new announced moniker of the duo made up of the Lille based "historical" EBM agit-props Frédéric Sebastien and Dominique Lallement which can be considered as the legitimate son of the former Kriegbereit, one of the project active since the second half of the 80s which gained a certain notoriety out of French boundaries strictly related to the embryonic sound of the Belgian industrial waves (especially to the praiseworthily stunning one whose ensigns are with no doubts Front 242) propelled by Monsieur Lallement, also active with the moniker Cobalt 60 (obscure project inside which a rebel youngster Jean-Luc DeMeyer '“ you should know the name of the above-mentioned band was famous for his rushing growls on the microphone... -, whose name was borrowed not only from the radioactive and dangerous isotope of cobalt, but also from an almost unknown comics series by the American cartoonist Vaughn Bodé with the same name, whose plot '“ the revenge of Cobalt60 for the death of his parents, murdered by the evil Stronzium 90! '“ takes place in a post apocalyptic world crowded with aliens, mutants and strange human hybrids, which could be perfectly set to music by K-Bereit as well!) is a well-crafted exulceration of the glorious old-school EBM '“ an indefinite nostalgic touch is added by the sound of unrecorded vinyl wisely inserted between a track and the next one as well as from track 16 to 59 just before the bonus "hidden" track... ! -, whose venomous lyrics, leathery beats and distorted sounds are going to be dropped mainly on trained dance-floors as we think it's not so fitted for personal listening as it could result a bit monotonous unless you find their rifle-fires on electronic drums and neurotic sounds which seems coming directly from a stoke-hole fitted enough to your eardrums., especially when you'll be conscious about the collaborative presence of other EBM-industrial famous stokers, among which Punish Yourself, the great Swedish act Autodafeh- as well as label mates coming from the hard-hitting roster of the Texan label Sigsaly Transmissions -, Dolls of Pain '“ we highly reccomend to download (for free) a collection of remixes of their album, Cybersex, entitled Cybertransmissions on the website of this exquisite band from Strasbourg... - and Signal Aout 42 '“ another interesting EBM act coming from Belgium and quite close to the glorious DAF -. Tracks such as In/Visible, Liar (be honest or prepare to be fired, folks!!!), Mutilation and Use Your Strap-on! are the best songs according our ear response! Even if quite nostalgic and intimately related to the old way of assembling bodily electronic music for bodies' and brains' perspiration, we could bet that most renowned Ebm parties will play this record very frequently. K-Bereit looks ready for a war...you have just to take your gas masks and latex boots out of your wardrobes to ger ready for their violent sound attacks whis are going to shake your ass and march on your favorite dark floors.

I already had the chance to check Radoslaw Kaminski's music on "Scontrum Act VI" where you can find the three parts of "Demiurgia". This newest album AURA IMAGINALIS has a wider sounds spectrum and with its six tracks will reach an high rate on the charts of each dark ambient lover. Ab Intra is a Latin phrase meaning "on the inside" and Radoslaw with "Wanderers", "Astral wings", "Current", "...", "Arcana" and "Essence" is building a inner sound world made of great ambient industrial sounds (metal percussions, subtle melodic lines, drones) mixed with neo classical orchestral parts. Each track has different moods that goes from tense industrial clangs mixed with drones ("...") to orchestral hymns with rhythmical parts ("Arcana") passing through a mix of both (the closing "Essence"). This album sounds inspired and has great sounds. If you are fans of Inade, Herbst9, First Law or Endvra check it.

Every year I receive from Jill one of his demos and every year I notice that he improves his skills into creating smooth sounds and chill out atmospheres. This year's demo is titled ONE SMALL STEP and contains six new tunes. We start with "Landscape" a slow atmospheric tune with reverbered flutes, minimal vocals samples and a trumpet that put in evidence the bass line. "My own time" has an upfront bass line as well and has an upbeat rhythm that will make you move along with the soothing piano sounds. "One small step" remember me one of the hit singles of Phoenix if it had catchy vocals. Jill should try to collaborate with someone and try to have an hit single out. "Polyester", "Summer light" and "Blessed" are mid tempos with deal with that sound that mix Miami house and chill out sounds with jazz vocal and sound samples.

As some of you probably know, usually I’m not the greatest fan of samplers but every once in a while I’ve the indisputable luck to review some collections I couldn’t but describe by using the word "outstanding". Me Raabestein from Nonine has sent us this fresh masterpiece that testifies both the fact Rabenstein (featured here with Slowcream and in the role of compiler of the tracklist) is slowly climbing the ranking of post-contemporary music and at the same time it proofs a cd full of big names doesn’t necessarily mean: "second rate quality songs from A-class composers". Hell knows how listenable and relaxing is this sampler and you have a bunch of really well-known artists like Philip Glass to Gavin Bryars, from Sylvain Chaveau to Akira Rebeldais. I will intentionally avoid to speak about some specific song, what makes this cd incredibly good besides the fact the one hundred percent of the songs are beautiful, is the fact Rabenstein has put together a smart playlist and as you know the tracklist represents the keystone of the vault in a sampler more than in the full length of a single author. The title is quite explicit, this cd brings forth the central reflection on the evidence that "classic music", above all "modern classic music" (whatever it means),is changing, and yes, you can take for granted the presence of compositions with beat plus strings a la Murcof or piano and electronics a la Alva Noto and Sakamoto. What I find really interesting about this brand new collection of "second millennium classic music" is the fact not everything is that predictable, you have many non-electronic compositions, a track with vocals (Slowcream) and the only evident "fil rouge" is neatness. Don’t expect it to be such an experimental compilation, this’ "just" a refined collection of enchanting tracks.

After debuting on the second volume of "Some tunes", music producers Peter Rutten and Sanne Groeneveld finally produced their first official release. THE HORN contains six tunes and is available only as digital download. The opening self titled tune sees on vocals as guest Erik Walet and his deep vocals give a mysterious touch to the song which is a curious blend of Spanish melodies/guitars and blasting distorted bass lines with different stops and go. Great song indeed. For the following two tracks, "Pinky stinky" and "Sweaty stinky", we have Aischa on vocals and on these the music is more syncopated and influenced by dub reggae atmospheres and electro. The following "Come on" is a perfect electro dance tune with 4/4 rhythms, fat synth bass lines and catchy vocals. Next we have "Timpaner" an instrumental that sounds nice but doesn't really add something more to what we already listened. The last track is "The brick is in the air", an Aux Raus song remixed by Bronstibock. I don't know the original version but this one sounds like an 8bit electro pumping tune with the add of distorted guitars here and there. Nice and funny... You can check many of these songs at Bronstibock's myspace page.