• Statik Sound System - Tempesta II

    Par DJDemonAngel le 24 Juin 2009 à 13:31
     



    Bristol, plus que jamais capitale de la sensualité dérangée, avec Statik Sound System le bien nommé. Autant préciser d'emblée que ce nouveau groupe vient de Bristol, capitale des laborantins mélancoliques. Ainsi, ce son perdure et se renouvelle sans jamais donner un signe d'essoufflement. Statik Sound System se l'accapare pour mieux le hisser dans les cimes les plus extatiques de la grâce. Ce collectif de zébulons de studio ­ quatre expérimentateurs instrumentistes blafards et une chanteuse délicate ­ distillent un dub onirique et mystique qui envoûte et enveloppe l'auditeur dans une délicieuse torpeur. Un groove singulier, allié à un rythme syncopé, plonge dans les abysses opiacés de l'introspection. A travers ces dédales tantôt frénétiques tantôt apaisés, la voix énamourée d'Helen White cristallise la fragilité et la difficulté d'être, proche de celle de la femme fatale de Portishead. Ces créateurs d'ambiances incertaines libèrent un spleen éphémère qui caresse les bleus de l'âme. Véritable îlot de lascivité, Statik Sound System incarne magnifiquement son patronyme. Gueules d'atmosphère plus que songwriters, ces expérimentateurs écoulent autant la douceur satinée que la fièvre brûlante. L'esthétique lancinante du trip-hop révèle ici un romantisme charnel et entraînant, mis en scène avec la perfection des plus grands. Mais l'intranquillité reste malgré tout présente. Comme si toute cette entreprise consistait à lutter contre le chaos, une force d'inertie qui menacerait d'atrophier tout l'édifice. Ce voyage intérieur serait le meilleur moyen d'expurger l'angoisse du vide, de chasser le néant. Ce bras de fer inavoué entre les pulsions de vie et celles de destruction ­ démons intérieurs toujours séduisants ­ se conclurait par une victoire au goût amer des bons sentiments. D'où cette aspiration à la quiétude, au repos, incarnée par ces havres alanguis comme le définitif In our own dub/Jack laid bare qui clôt l'album. La parenté Tricky ou Mo'Wax se fait sentir sans que cela soit véritablement gênant, Statik ayant trouvé un style bien à lui, affranchi et épuré. Soulignons au passage que le label Cup Of Tea commence à sérieusement nous énerver à force de ne sortir que des bons disques.
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  • Antennasia - Cinemice

    Par DJDemonAngel le 4 Juin 2009 à 16:36
      





    Antennasia first hit the Tokyo club scene in 1999. Founded by programmer nerve and vocalist san. Their sound takes form gradually and they get recognized in the down-tempo community with their early two albums in the CD-R format and their works get marked no.1 in Japans internet charts, steadily spreading overseas in forums and webzines. Still with a decent dash of dub and triphop beats, antennasia released “Phased” in 2002 from Double Life Records, this time on international scale, leading to the single “Mamma, Mamma” getting airplay in Belgium, France and the Netherlands. Followed some radio and paper interviews, and a tour in Belgium and Holland in 2003 as well as in 2004, where antennasia appeared on festivals, sharing the bill with Sven Van Hees, Vive La Fte to name a few. As a consequence, antennasia won many hearts and, back home, received features in numerous paper magazines. Meanwhile their 4th album “Cinemice” was released in 2005. In a blend of deep electronics sound, dub and jazz, san’s vocal became more soulful and individual. In 2005, antennasia supported the Lemongrass & Weathertunes live in Yokohama, it brought them the opportunity that their songs appear on Lemongrassmusic’s compilations. Also Ryuichi Sakamoto picked up their new songs for his Radio Sakamoto. Being nominated and played on the program many times up to the present. antennasia’s most successful album so far “23 Bluebird Street, Velo-City” was released in 2006 from forestnauts records. Ryuichi Sakamoto made a comment for the album : This is the music that I can be extremely relaxed to. It might be pop, and by arranging it can be danceable. I want them to make more music. I think they are a unit with a bright future. Derrick May says about the song “Sorrow (version about me)” from the same album : Sounds Beautiful. Sounds like Erykah Badu. I like it, it’s good! Good song. Recently, world famous producers/DJ’s like DJ3000, Rob Smith, Embee, Lemongrass etc. remix antennasia’s songs and their first remix album “Velo-City : remixed” was released in Nov 2008 in Japan. antennasia is also working on collaborations with many musicians all over the world.
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  • Emancipator - Soon It Will Be Cold Enough

    Par DJDemonAngel le 3 Juin 2009 à 16:51




    Reviewed by - John Dunphy

    Some albums just feel so good, so cool, you can’t help but feel good while listening to them.

    Emancipator’s Soon It Will Be Cold Enough is such an album. Incorporating hints of jazz, electronica, trip-hop and down-tempo into its violins, keys, various samples and the occasional female voice, this 19-year-old college student has put together a release worthier of the attentions of a record label.

    Taking a liking to music at an early age, the quality and professionalism of the production is in stark contrast to the fact this artist can’t even legally buy booze yet. “Eve” sweeps in with some modified harmony vocals then shows off both Emancipator’s piano skills as well as the beautiful violins of Cindy Kao, whose work is peppered throughout the 65-minute epic. “Soon It Will Be Cold Enough To Build Fires” plays around with some lovely acoustic guitars, a sampled horn and some left over vocal cuts from another track.

    The rhythm of programmed drums and wash of beautiful violin on “Anthem” reminds me a little of Moby and DJ Shadow, the tribal beat opening and subsequent electronic bass on “Good Knight” feels like some of Bobby Cochran’s (Hands Upon Black Earth) best work, the driving bass and Kao’s violin on “Lionheart” feel like the soundtrack to dusk, while the voice of Thao Nguyen on “When I Go” sings “off key,” as she puts it, but really her style is addictive, sexy and the sound of her lovely speaking voice when she says, “You are nourishing. That’s what he said” gives me a chill.

    The amount of work that went into this album is amazing. As Emancipator himself states, “ …instrumentation on the album was either played and recorded by myself, or was programmed from scratch using individual ‘oneshots,’ which are basically just recordings of single notes being played. Many of the melodies or bass lines were constructed in this way – by pitch shifting and moving around individual sounds like sound legos.”

    The fact that this is funded not by a record label, but by a college student who does this in his spare time, is admirable. Pop onto his site you can even download some remixes (including his mash up remix pairing Sigur Ros with Mobb Deep. Hearing Mobb Deep rap “I’m only 19 but my mind is old” has so much added weight when melded like this). And, to boot, the music is damn cool. Highly recommended.

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  • Black Era - Third eye guerrilla

    Par DJDemonAngel le 18 Mai 2009 à 16:52
    http://www.blackera.com/
    http://www.myspace.com/theblackera
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    A new concept from Black Era,

    Third Eye Guerrilla is an e.p. that ends quickly, but will not vanish
    quite as easily.
    its dark, slow, naked and broken atmosphere, never been so
    electronic, and never so mechanical, with dy darshan's voice being  so
    unusually deep ....
    expressing their usual class at a maximum level.

     

    tracklist:

    1- Martyr (soul)
    sampled: Giovanni Falcone
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Falcone

    2- Your own purple

    3- The gift

    4- Martyr (hands)
    sampled Enrico Mattei
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrico_Mattei

    5- Martyr (reason)
    sampled: Pier Paolo Pasolini
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pier_Paolo_Pasolini

    percussions:
    Antonio Staropoli http://www.myspace.com/antoniostaropoli

    cover art:
    lucia de vivo http://www.lumuv.it

    band photo:
    mask  http://www.myspace.com/comunicattivi

    myspace design:
    muhe http://www.myspace.com/muhemusik

    website design:
    allfuzz http://www.myspace.com/allfuzz

    recorded mixed and mastered at blackchannel studio
    by giovanni roma 2008

    band:
    info@blackera.com
    www.blackera.com
    www.myspace.com/theblackera

    booking:
    paolo@soundabbast.it
    shop cds:
    market@blackera.com

     

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  • Wipping Willow - Le Theatre Du Bruit

    Par DJDemonAngel le 18 Mai 2009 à 16:32
    http://www.myspace.com/wippingwillow



    Review by : Trip-Hop.net

    Thierry Pallanzi que nous avions découvert à travers sa première auto-production TipToe revient avec un nouveau projet : Wipping Willow. Les ferveurs défenseurs du trip-hop mettant en avant les voix féminines seront ravis. Les productions du groupe vont en ce sens. En témoignent, " Déménagement ", " Schyzophreniks " et " Marchands d'oubli ". Basculant entre anglais et français, le chant est plutôt entrainant et étonnamment, les changements de langue ne perturbent pas l'auditeur comme c'est trop souvent le cas chez certains groupes.
    Du coté des compositions, on ne peut que reconnaître que Thierry Pallanzi connaît son métier. Le son est riche ; les ambiances sont variées alternant notamment entre joie et mélancolie. On retrouvera particulièrement des inspirations warpiennes ou ninjatuniennes à l'image de l'instrumental " Primavera ".
    Au final, un bon album de trip-hop qui devrait séduire les fans de Mig, Lamb ou Oi Va Voi.

    Par : Thibaut

     

     


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