This review is part of a bunch of reviews of older material that we haven't had time to review before but which is still available at the label's mailorder. We apologize for the inconvenience. Pimmon is Paul Gough, a sound manipulator that only recently started releasing his many works through Fat Cat, Meme, Fallt, ERS, Static Caravan and of course Staalplaat. His extended CD EP "Orquesta Del Arrurruz" (title means Arrowroot Orchestra) has been created on a PC and bounced to tape and then back into the digital domain and the whole work is inspired by Glenn Gould and contains samples from his recordings. Gough says that he intended to «create some of the social nervousness and fears that he [Gould] exhibited, but also the emotion and joy he was able to enthuse in his playing». Musically, this eccentric artist, focuses on fluctuating creations made of ambience, radar pulses, value melodies, throbbing rumbles, buzzes and blimps and zooms up close on the grainy microscopic outerworlds of the emotive soundscapes he creates...
This is the 7th "Material Series" (please read the review of Heimir Bjorgulfsson's record "Machina Natura" in this section to understand what this series is all about and how it is presented to you) release and comes as a tempting art work: the AB CD has a layer of tissue on its musical area and the material used for the inlay and cover is sort of a fake grass raw fabric (you may see it on some roofs or sport centers floors). All plastic parts are thus transparent green and the CD is held by a rubber tip! Very original!

This review is part of a bunch of reviews of older material that we haven't had time to review before but which is still available at the label's mailorder. We apologize for the inconvenience.
Inada returns after a while (his latest releases include a CD with 0* on V2 Archief, a collaboration CD with Philip Samartisz on Digital Narcis and his solo CDs on Selektion (also distributed by Digital Narics).
This is the eigth release in the "Material Series" (please read the review of Heimir Bjorgulfsson's record "Machina Natura" in this section to understand what this series is all about and how it is presented to you) and comes in a transparent yellow jewel case with a white plastic web/net in place of the cover and the inlay card. He likes to describe his music as a "perfect flow" because he goes for the beauty hidden in silence, a silence achieved by stressing and polishing quite space until it is audible. For true radical experimental fans only!

This review is part of a bunch of reviews of older material that we haven't had time to review before but which is still available at the label's mailorder. We apologize for the inconvenience.
The ninth release in the "Material Series" (please read the review of Heimir Bjorgulfsson's record "Machina Natura" in this section to understand what this series is all about and how it is presented to you) is Austrian Pure's "Low". Pure is into video experimentation and even released a self-programmed audio software last year.
His stuff is droning experimental music in the best tradition of Staalplaat. He also released vinyl and 3" Cd and CDs on different labels and has been performing live since 1991.
Even though this is part of the "Material Series", it comes as a full lenght CD. The four very long tracks, whose names all start with the word "Low", have looped low frequency tones, drones and hums as their common denominator and have little and slow changes throughout the recording. What is interesting is that in the fourth Low-piece there are hints of orchestral sounds layered over a sweeping analogue sound.
If you are curios about what material has been used for this release you'll be pleased to know that it's two nice sheets of nice and fine copper gauze. What a great idea!

Second release for Geir Jenssen's label, BLACK SMOKER is a very good ambient record. Remembering me the first Biosphere's records the sound of Opdahl is dark, pulsing , hypnotizing, deep and intense. The fourteen tracks melt one into the other in a perfect way (there's no fade in and fade out) and they seems one the direct consequence of the one before. Discovered by Geri Jenssen himself (he listened a demo tape Tom sent him and immediately he decided to produce his first work), Tom Opdahl released a perfect record which balance rhythmic tracks with spacey ones. Mellow sounds, echoes and synthesizer's pads duel with light bleeps and intriguing atmospheres giving to the tracks a touch of mistery which make me like this CD each time more. Try to get your hands on this record because you won't be disappointed: you bet!

First full-length cd by this German trio, after a self-released mcd and a few compilation appearances on Black Rain and Nightingale samplers. Cyborg Attack cross electro with low-pitched, quasi black/death metal vocals. My main problem with this kind of crossover is that, besides being not that attractive per se, it seems very, very hard to do it well without being kitsch (while there are examples of good taste and sobriety both in electro and metal, of course). And, moreover, I think this cd gets really repetitive after a couple of tracks, which is not a good sign. Ok, electro is almost always like that, tun-tun-tun etc., but maybe coupling monotonous gruffy vocals is not the best way to make it more varied. Sorry, this was really not my thing.