Perse is a new project by Marco Milanesio (aka 9Cento9 or DsorDNE) and Emiliana Voltarel (Braconidae). Together they had already issued an self-titled single on Marco's own label HUM_an last December which captured the Winter mood perfectly.
The Exile In H EP, published via the Lyon based Bamboo Shows label (podcaster and enterpreteur of events) continues with atmospheric and poetrical pieces which recall positively some of DsorDNE's work of years ago, updated with more current audiotools and a wider field of sounds and experimentation in various degrees.
Half of the six tracks have lyrics dealing with atmospheres and trends today. Recorded during 2020 the occuring themes are isolation, memories, despair and how to get along if I interpret them correctly with the aid of an online translator.
These are reflective songs in the widest sense, "Nel blu e nel rosso" is a slow opener to lure the listener in. Without a break "Guardavamo davanti" follows in an decent upbeat structure with again more spoken than sung lyrics from Marco by Emiliana. His O.F.F. associate and Larsen member Fabrizio Modonese Palumbo guests with ebow to accomplish the drift and it could go on but the track ends sooner than I would have liked it.
The following "Sin" gives an instrumental post-industrial noir tingled break where the wind howls through the empty city. Mere abstract, "INFF" inverts the impression to thoughts running circles inside one's head but that's just one possible interpretation it's all left to the recipent. "Corde risonanti" is the third and final vocal track, hushed and hunted close to breathless the lyrics counterpoint the instrumental pseudo calmness. The closing "Vento Da Sud" evolves the theme of a desert wind running through the landscape but it's not an utter bleak world, at least not yet.
The talents of both musicians supplement each other really well and it's great to hear the results of their collaborative effort. I hope Perse will not be lost in time soon and follow this up with a few releases when the time is right.
This is serious music for the hearts and minds in a rarely lit corner between various electronic styles and poetic expression.

Exile In H is also available as limited tape, only 46 copies where made - so good luck if you're want a physical copy!

This is the latest release of the Russian Dark Electro music project Dark The Keeper. It is solo effort of Alexander Borsov, who was otherwise musically active rather in the Russian Death Metal scene as guitarist and of one of the founders of projects like (Morgue), (Atom), and (Sarcoma – this project was part of the Crimean Death Metal scene in the mid-90s). But this episodes can be left into history.
In 2011 Alexander started to produce music with electronic-based equipment. Dark The Keeper as well as his recent alter ego-projects like Stellar Dynamics, Satura or Darkmechanic (yes, Alexsnder insists to have so many different projects running like other people would change their underwear...) have indeed not too much to do with his Death Metal past, the conceptual idea especially behind Dark The Keeper was born out the influence of the legend / cult act of Dark Electro music within, GGFH (Global Genocide Forget Heaven). Yes, Alexander's music lives and breathes the overwhelming GGFH-influence on “Insight...23” here, other references I tend to name with some Splatter Squall tracks, Pain Station with their “Cold” album, or some deepest Lexincrypt moments. But actually, he has already released a tribute EP with two instrumental cover version of GGFH to their “Disease”-era and also this new album here features two additional reinterpretations. The sick and rotten GGFH world is his most important quell of inspiration, without doubt!

So we have with “Insight...23” that kind of a deep, dark, and ominous sounding release filled with uncountable twisting sounds, dark atmospheres, samples highly infiltrated with gore/splatter voices, this all accented in a bombastic, soundtrack-like design. In short: this is an ideal soundtrack for Halloween. He adds sparsely in his vocals, often provided in Russian language and in a guttural fashion, as this is quite typically for an artist out of the Death Metal genre. Mostly the tracks concentrate to create sinister mood lines and this comes united with his mid tempo-to slower grinding, pummeling, vicious rhythm and percussion patterns. This isn't the music to set fire under the floor of your next dance party event and most important: this isn't the music provided by the redundant snap light stick Harsh Electro-generation!

Outstanding - because crystal-clear – is his final mixdown and mastering process. Alexander's tracks are sounding quite polished and well-balanced and there's absolutely nothing to complain on his recording quality. Generally I find it a bit difficult to tap on a personal favorite on here, but this rather has something to do with the fact, that each track contains lots of details and dense layers of industrial madness, a lot of strange voice samples perfectly placed and with precision installed into the mix.

Also – as a matter of constructive criticism – his amount of multiple outputs as well as his almost uncountable number of different projects which all follow musically a relatively comparable direction is a bit too optimistic to the listener to be able to follow and to identify themselves with the artist.
Since Alexander has been throughout the last year immensely collaborated through mutual track compositions and remix exchanges with Tommy T. of Diverje and projects of his DSBP label roster, it should be said, that a limited number of a physical product, a CD, is available via Tommy's mail order service.

This one can be purchased without hesitation.

Considering the references to space journey, satellites, and the guessed image of Jupiter, that according to some eschatological visions is the planet where the souls of philosophers and thinkers migrate after a life on Earth (if not a hidden tribute to the glorious and versatile synth series by Roland, that were used - particularly Jupiter 6 and 8 - by drum and bass producers as well), I'd like to think that this nice output on the Dutch label Tempo Records intercepted transmissions that reached some lucky zone of the outer space 25-30 light-years away from here, but if you check who's hiding behind the moniker Voyager, you can surmise that those same sounds were spread some Earth years ago and maybe reshuffled more recently by the same author/interceptor. Pete Parsons signed many great tunes, belonging to the so-called old skool of drum and bass in the early 90ies, and his tunes reached truly iconic dnb labels such as the glorious Good Looking by LTJ Bukem. All those listeners, who enjoyed that promising stage of electronic music and those awesome years of that scene, will be really delighted and I won't wonder if this delight will run together a fit of nostalgia while listening to the romantically beautified amen break that Pete assembled on "Shields Down" and "Enso" - with those emotional "traditional" refills, stressed by super-low bass punches -, as well as by the dubby tune of "Still Waters", going back to the primordial forms of sweetened dub that artists like Dj Krush, Robin "Big Bud" O'Reilly, The Amalgamation Of Soundz, Makoto Shimizo and many more that Pete surely met during his sonic journeys. A nice "once upon a time" sonic pearl drop! While I'm writing just 6 of the 100 copies of the picture disc are available, but the label highlights that if you're reaching a higher quality the classical black vinyl (500 copies should be printed) is recommended.

4 tribal, percussion and drum fixated pieces from Mike Blackbeat, a drummer who's working with experimental sounds and musicians since a few years. He's also part of the duo HAU (Human Restlessness and Oppression).
Besides the first piece "I Sit Here, Watching..." which sort of explains the EP's title with lyrics added in a distant voice all tracks are purely based on drums and percussion and surprisingly for a mere experimental release groovey in a tribal way. This reminds me somewhat of MC 900 Ft.'s "Dancing Barefoot" which is of course something different. "The Stream Of Your Hunger" is a bit undecided and might have gained from additional input but tracks 3 & 4 which are explicit mastered finish the EP on a high. Not sure if I'd make it through an whole album though but this is a different form of minimal which is well worth a listening.
A brave EP issued by the long running Bulgarian Netlabel Mahorka which is definitively worth a deeper investigation. And btw: it's issued as 'Pay What You Want' like many of their releases so nothing should stop you to give it a try.

Sónno Blu is a surprising sidestep by Dino Tagliaferri who was more know for dubstep and dubreggae in the past but considering the recent times he ventured into a reflective mood, expressing his personal POV in a micro composition with three acts.
Multiple layers of sound create an not necessarily dark ambience, in search of the balance between loneliness and insecurity there is always a movement but it remains unclear where it will lead to. The tension of the center piece 'Giovane Diavolo' builds slowly a bridge into the deeper areas of one's mind without giving any clues away what to make of it.
In an accompanying note he declares this work as personal reading of the recent times, in which the only possible epilogue is a ritual fusion with nature to generate new forms of consciousness.

A short but impressing soundscape where the feelings expressed remain comprehensible while abstract.