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Kirkkonummi ( ES ) - Finland
Website : http://alpha.libre.fm/user/jani
Joined : September 20, 2006
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All the elements are there, and you can tell a lot of time has been spent fusing them together. What I found lacking was some kind of kick, soul, a hook: something in each of the tracks to stand out and stay with you. As it is, they'd probably work best as background for a fast-paced game and not so much as focus for intensive listening. Incidentally, the theming also works for such purpose, though a single theme throughout an album is always pleasing IMO, whatever the purpose.
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On the average a good album, although the goodness of individual tunes varies remarkedly depending on which particular niche genres you happen to like and not. But the sheer size of the work is enough to guarantee there are some excellent tracks for just about anybody's taste (well, at least for anybody with a taste for rough electronica), as well as some crappy ones.
My favorites were Moloch 11811's Blut Fur Baal Zebub and the definite overall favorite, Hypnozyl's DPP, which I found myself listening to over and over again.
Oh, and a -1 for the apparent loudness war between the tracks. The further down the tracklist you get, the more you'll find yourself adjusting the volume which is either way too loud or way too quiet.
The perfect soundtrack for creeping, unrelenting anxiety. Ingest it while alone in the darkest hours of the night, and you might be pushed over the edge.
Such beautiful impressions! I especially appreciate how each track has a distinct character right from the get-go. It's all too easy for a set of modern piano compositions to sound all the same, but that's certainly not the case with this album.
After you get past the initial disbelief ("what IS this?"), there's something heart-warmingly naive about these senseless tapes. Despite not being able to comprehend more than a few German words here and there (it's been way too long since I took lessons), the humor and enthusiasm shone through so strongly I couldn't help but smile at the sillyness of it all.
Maybe this won't last listening through day in day out, but then again, what music does? I say give it a go, and don't take it too seriously.
Nice tracks here, I particularly like the haunting vocals on 'lead me'. My only wish is that the individual tracks lasted longer; being used to 7-minute+ tracks means 3-minute ones usually feel like they end a bit prematurely.
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