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Luminance Ratio: Honey Ant Dreaming

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Artist: Luminance Ratio (@)
Title: Honey Ant Dreaming
Format: 12"
Label: Alt-vinyl (@)
Rated: * * * * *
Put in playback Nosferatu of Werner Herzog and then put silent the movie and play this masterpiece of a massive esoteric impact. The Luminance Ratio have the immense weight of Ammon Dull, Ash-Ra Temple and the psychedelic inpiration of Kraut Rock. Their music is in resonance with atavistic sounds and guitar researches not to mention electronic sounds in the wake of OTO vibes. This LP is a ultimate trip into an unknown we missed very much in these years, it is a tool to get out from this planet. Every tracks and performance is a fresh wind into a mysterious desert in which to listen the Al-Azif of Lovecraftian memoire. Their Strings are vibrating like the strings of quantum physics.The inspirations of the album comes from Papunya's aborigines but the final destination is far far in space and time. Only your ears can judge and immerse in this stargate shaped like a LP called "Honey ant dreaming".


Rendez-Vous: Distance

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Artist: Rendez-Vous (@)
Title: Distance
Format: CD & 12"
Label: Avant! Records
Distributor: Backwards, Solo Vinili & Libri, Ultrasuoni (TO)
Rated: * * * * *
Francis Mallari, Elliot Berthault, Maxime Gendre, Simon Dubourg here are the name of the confirmation of the undoubted fact that WAVE is a French stuff in the present time. The synth bass, the guitar, and the effects warping the voice are the pillars of this Ep which drags us slowly in a humid and stinky night in the slums of Paris searching for a gig of the same band and then to get lost like an early movie of Luc Besson, Subway. It's not rare in wave music that the music itself is the perfect soundtrack to tell about it. Rendez-Vous has the energy, the skills, the rage, the elegance to tell again about the soul of Fad Gadget and so to sacrifice on the shrine of the god of post-punk their talent. The track which struck: Euroshima is brilliant lively and dirty as the Wave must be.


Koban: Abject Obsession

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Artist: Koban
Title: Abject Obsession
Format: CD & 12"
Label: Avant! Records
Rated: * * * * *
The Art to make Music and to make it interesting is a job that Avant! Records knows very well. This music work of the post-punk due from Vancouver gives a perfect demonstration of the cure and skill of this label. The music of KOBAN is an hidden black pearl in the memories of the audience which still is yearning for punk-wave soundscapes. Smoothly ready to be a sound track for SM acts Abject Obsession flows in the stream of an eternal memento of vinyl and distorted guitar, pulsing bass and weird french voices seized and flogged by harsh synths. What is amazing for a terminal wave-lover like me is how this proposal so traditional and sadistically observant of the punk-wave rules is never boring and it thrives perfectly in its eerie garden.


Nash The Slash: Hammersmith Holocaust

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Artist: Nash The Slash
Title: Hammersmith Holocaust
Format: 12"
Label: Artoffact Records
Rated: * * * * *
Introduced by the GOD of wave GARY NUMAN this artist is something not possible to be missed. A lonely genius facing the audience like an elegant mummy or better to say like the invisible man in a public space. He was from Toronto and his guitar is hard to forget deepened in weird reverberation, it's possible to listen echos of the Jew Music coming from another eon. It's a real once in a lifetime listening. The cover of Smoke of the Water is a pure sublime trauma where sound processing and a sick voice scream in the name of the rock and roll but both are caged into a psychedelic hell. Nash the Slash is a milestone in the musical raping, nothing is sacred for him and everything is ironically sublime. Nash seems born from David Lynch's mind in a state of grace.


VV.AA.: Noblesse Oblige

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Artist: VV.AA.
Title: Noblesse Oblige
Format: 12"
Label: Enfant Terrible productions (@)
Enfant Terrible with its sub-label Gooiland Elektro is about to release a new compilation titled "Noblesse Oblige" containing bands that are a perfect tool to explore EBM and techno made in NL. For those who are looking for a throbbing and strobing sound with harsh voices coming from the void of universe, this is for sure a safe harbor. Enfant Terrible presents, in this wild wild wild wake, bring to you LCN, Monocorpse, Profligate, Osty, Neugeborene Nachtmusik, and Future Blondes. Some are ruvid like Profligate, other are dance floor ready. This is definitely a cornucopia which vomits on us the indubitable fact the EBM and electro never dies and it is ready to infect and to bend brains and knees.