Three monickers for two artists, french Gwenn Tremorin and german Ronny Jaschinski, teaming up together for this rather interesting project. The more two artists are different the more harmonization is difficult, the risk of an oil and water (un)mix grows bigger, but this is not the case. Tremorin and Jaschinski have managed to bring in their own influences and sound, mixing them together, preserving their own identity and giving birth to something new and most definitely interesting. The first has a more industrial/ambient/noise background, you can hear him in the deep drones and noises, in the whole gloomy mood, Ah Cama Sotz! or even Haus Arafna fans might be delighted. On the other rhythmic side there's a pretty much rarefied kind of IDM patterns and sounds. The mix works perfectly along the common path of inspiration by french science fiction writer Renè Barjavel's novel "Le nuits de temps". Remarkable are also the paintings used for the graphic artwork provided by Denis Khokhrin (http://conjunctorium.org). Mission executed.

Death to Your Modern hail from Toronto, Canada. This is their second release on Noitekk after 'Invilid' in 2008. It can be considered as an EP since it consists of only 6 tracks, but due to 10 remixes added the final length is ok for a double vinyl Lp. The cover is not the best piece of art around, probably all the efforts have been put into music and powerful production, a surely remarkable aspect of this release. DYM definitely try to make their sound a bit different from the average harsh EBM acts, mixing the usual harsh vocals and synth arpeggios with electro-industrial sounds, more 'symphonic' darkened parts and breakcore influences. 'For Catherine' is an instrumental track showing this will of 'experimentation'. 'Right to fail' is a dancefloor breaker hit that perfectly fulfill its aim. 'Swarm' has a very nice old EBM bass line. Despite those attempts it's not a record that will be remembered for its originality, a slight step forward for sure but also a loss of energy when trying to be different. The whole remixes first album follows, since I have not listened to the original I cannot say what's better and what's not, though I enjoyed the driving 'Touch' remix by C-Lekktor

PAS stands for Post Abortion Stress. As the four people collective states, the "name refers metaphorically" to those who have been aborted by society". An interesting starting point that doesn't lead to any form of really "disruptive" music anyway as someone might expect indeed. On the other hand is hard to talk about music also, PAS don't follow any convention about structure or harmony as conventionally defined, it's more about creating rarefied soundscapes. In this sense they fulfill the task enlightened by their name. Sound sources vary, vocals as well as synths some kind of field recordings. Their nature is not harsh or particularly gloomy, they reflect various states of mind. Creativity flows freely, but I would call it mostly a "peaceful" kind of ambient, relaxing rather than ominous. The record is selfreleased but has the barcode on.

This Cd compiles two lp's originally released in 2004 and 2005 by Troum, a project coming from Germany. The 9 composition alternate some low volume deep drones and a synth oriented ambient with a pretty majestic mood layering on it. The more Troum go on the drone side, mostly on the second part of the cd, the more they become interesting. The synth part are a bit spoiled when it comes to sound, though they don't lack a certain kind of atmosphere, a darkened one of course. The tracks "O choros ton epithymion" shows a more percussive feeling and in conjunction with some invasive drones probably gives birth to the most intense moment of the cd. Interesting but not mandatory.

Another release for the polish Zoharum. Horologium come from Poland as well. They have several releases out, and this cd compiles a couple of early cdr's released in 2005 with the addition of 3 live songs. Horologium seem to be very active in the neo-folk scene, also from the live concerts side, though this cd shows a large number of composition with several elements combined. There's synth ambient for sure, a gloomy kind of one, some orchestral arrangements, samples, creepy noises, industrial elements sounds here and there, organ parts, a martial fascination that band seems to possess, and that allegedly will become a trademark for Horologium. Probably the feeling is enforced by the fact that this cd compiles different releases, but it seems that the mix of different elements not always works, it's like a collage that sometimes fails in being organic rather than being appealing. Interesting for the fans who want to rediscover the roots of Horologium. Digipack packaging.