V/A – Covered In Darkness

2016-06-30 / pcod / Reads: 4531

Panta rei - said someone once, and he was probably right. Songs which a man brought up with as time pass become "cult" (or just old) and in the life of every music reviewer comes a moment, a day that: damn it! It's been 20 years since the release of...

Bluetown Electronica - Is It Time Yet?

2016-06-21 / pcod / Reads: 4039

"My beloved …where can we go tonight?" In the county of Kent near the mouth of the river Thames a small island Sheppey is situated. The island has an area of ​​91km² (for comparison area of ​​Warsaw is 517km²). I have checked it. On the island in a local...

V/A - Nightmares and Dreamscapes

2016-06-16 / pcod / Reads: 3615

Maybe you were considering sometime about idea of late modernity. It is off course broad topic if we already have been living in post-modern times, or are we still rather traditional society? However, it seems that this sociological term is a good way to evaluate a small niche label (Uncoiled...

Oomph! - XXV

2016-06-08 / Alastor / Reads: 5347

Wait, wait a minute - which studio album from Oomph! it is? Ah, yes - the twelfth! Hardly any band can boast with such artistic achievements. Another thing is that "XXV" is sadly no longer the material to match predecessors. Could they be still gaining from the past achievements? Probably....

Frontier Guards - Battlegrounds

2016-06-02 / DamienG / Reads: 3965

Frontier Guards' return marks another venture of Martin Pavlík and Tom Galle into the outer regions of IDM where dark ambient melodies meet the cinematic grandeur and harsh electro tones, and for the first time, are also a backdrop for the vocal of František Gažík who joins Frontier Guards for...

Ashbury Heights - The Looking Glass Society

2016-05-25 / RobertSaligia / Reads: 5768

For the third album from Swedish Ashbury Heights we waited far too long. After five years of this project’s suspension in musical activities, Anders Hagström came back not only with an abundant beard on his face, greater maturity and musical awareness, but also with so far the best release. "The...