That’s a rich album full of golden shining "Magnets", at least 16 tracks have found the way on this free download-able album, published under the Absetzer-label, part of the Russian Alter-X promotion project. HEZZEL hails out of Latvia and I tend to rate their musically efforts as being a precise mixture between their countrymen ROSEWATER meets DIVE. It’s a harsh Electro-/Industrial-driven foundation arranged in straight and pummeling conditions. Here and there they integrate some rare vocals as well as some obscure voice samples. "Noise Is More Than Just Noise", that title of one of the featured tunes here couldn’t it describe any better, this stuff is also interesting enough for the Electro-/EBM-only supporters, since it balances well between the styles. Another quality and must-download item from the Alter-X promotion project!

"Bone Music" was yesterday but is still in the ears and minds of the audience, since the last years’ debut of Mr. Jairus Khan has been one of the surprises of the Tympanik release schedule. This new album is something like the remix twin of "Bone Music", since Mr. Khan could hire a lot of comrades and label colleagues to contribute with different interpretations on the AD-VER-SARY compositions. Acts like CYANOTIC, the highly recognized ESA, ISZOLOSCOPE, DISPARITION, MONOCULTURE, CANDL NINE, STENDECK, SYNKRO, PHYLR, AUTOCLAV 1.1, and SALT are the names to offer the requested diversity. You’ll get additionally some new tracks of Jairus, on which "Dresden" for instance is one of his straight-oriented tunes, which could animate the audience to some dancefloor movement. "Darker" is a frozen sound-collage focusing on ominous sounding synth-layers. Last but not least, you’ll get a track originally composed by his friends of CYANOTIC, "Deface", which got revamped (AD-VER-SARY + DIRTYBUNNY = Industrial Strength Mix). As usual, and that seems to be the trademark for AD-VER-SARY, this integrated diversity discovered especially in the original compositions are the outstanding part in the music of this act. Be it Industrial, Noise, IDM or Ambient – an AD-VER-SARY album includes all of this. This remix album is limited to 1000 pieces and comes out in handmade unique packaging.

The word "respite" belongs to the category Peter Spilles has to check in the dictionary. The tunes of the last Project Pitchfork album "Dream, Theresias" are still in our ears and Peter launches another release suiting the time of the year. Peter demonstrates a truly enviable creative strength here.
The first Santa Hates You album was released just two years ago, naturally, shortly before Christmas. In this experimental project Peter employs elements taken from Industrial, Gothic and Electro. His partner in crime is a female singer Jinxy while Peter himself jumps into the role of an evil clown and entertains the audience in a different manner from his Project Pitchfork.
The title songs is totally fit to be played in the clubs and I’m sure no other fortune expects it. Peter’s vocals sound clean but rather annoyed, very similar to the way we know it from Project Pitchfork. Jinxy can sound rather deep and sort of malicious to sexy. A good combination.
The EP features remixes of "Rocket Heart" by Straftanz, Axxl E., Soman and Reaper; There is track with no vocals, just samples ("The Bonus 1.0") and a cover version of One One’s classic "Deutschmaschine" sung as a duet.
This EP is limited to 2,000 copies coming as a digipak. Not only Project Pitchfork fans should give it a bash. Any fan of hard electro music could enjoy it home or dancing his/her ass off to it in the clubs.

Space Weather is comprised of Brian Lavelle on synths, Alistair Crosbie on electric guitar, and Andrew Paine on electric bass. In a way they are a throw back to the 80's because they're not really technically ambient in its present form. The closest 80's music I can pin them to is Brian Eno's rock albums, the tracks without the vocals of course. SW mine some of the same rock vein but aren't really in that category fully either. At least two of the seven tracks have beats but it's not the most important part of the music here. Much more important is the interplay of the three musicians. Simple melodies and counter-melodies intertwine with each other. This is where they excel. Nothing too jarring harmony-wise. Just going where the music takes them. This is their first release and I'm interested to see where they'll go from here. A group worth watching.

Space Weather is comprised of Brian Lavelle on synths, Alistair Crosbie on electric guitar, and Andrew Paine on electric bass. In a way they are a throw back to the 80's because they're not really technically ambient in its present form. The closest 80's music I can pin them to is Brian Eno's rock albums, the tracks without the vocals of course. SW mine some of the same rock vein but aren't really in that category fully either. At least two of the seven tracks have beats but it's not the most important part of the music here. Much more important is the interplay of the three musicians. Simple melodies and counter-melodies intertwine with each other. This is where they excel. Nothing too jarring harmony-wise. Just going where the music takes them. This is their first release and I'm interested to see where they'll go from here. A group worth watching.