SWAYZAK - LOOPS FROM THE BERGERIE































Swayzak "Loops from the Bergerie" Album Review
Nothing that special, just not as bland as most of the genre
2 1/2
Mildly impressive set of dance tracks rarely step outside of their methodical pulse pounding ways to show the talent that does make this outfit better then just another DJ. Though the majority are vocal laden, catchy numbers, intercut with a few more eclectic tracks, the album hardly rises above it's head bobbing notions to glue any melodies too the picture. When they are not busy ripping off artists like Depeche Mode (Keep It Coming) or sounding like a second rate Junior Boys, Swayzak moves along enough to merit a listen, but hardly.
Video Swayzak - Keep it coming (!K7)
Clip of the track "Keep it coming" taken from their album "Loops from the Bergerie". check: http://www.k7.com
THE SILVERMAN - REQUIEM SETTINGS


















The Silverman "Requiem Settings" Album Review
Review
While early glitch music experiments were the central feature of "Dream Cell" 's stylistic mix, it's successor "Silvermandalas" concentrated on drone and trance directions. By contrast, "Requiem Settings (1-6)" is a more linear work, with a greater emphasis on subjective association. Despite the title, a September 11 Requiem it isn't - at least not by design (the CD was already completed by the time of the attacks). Two factors determined the project's theme: my father's death, and the place where I lived at the time these recordings began. I was renting an apartment amongst the rolling hills of Groesbeek in Holland, and after finding two WW II grenades (one German, one American) in the woods behind the house, I began to discover the significance of the area. These killing fields marked the battles that began Europe's liberation from the Nazis. Two metal fragments, possible shrapnel) discovered in this same area revealed a pleasing bell-like quality when struck together. This bell-tine provides the static association in "Requiem Settings", while the train sounds heard throughout the work represent the aspect of movement - the sense of journeying to another existence. This sense is never more apparent than in the final setting - the Requiem itself, where the choirs drift in and out of radio static, all the time underpinned by a grandiose musical funeral procession.
AFX - ANALOGUE BUBBLEBATH 3








































AFX "Analogue Bubblebath 3" Album Review
A great bath, but the fourth one was better.
First of all, I'm not sure where the titles for these tracks came from. My copy of the album didn't have a track list. Maybe they came from a previous issue of this record...
Anyway, this is a great work of raw techno. My personal favorites were track 1, 4 through 8, 10,(an intense short track,) and 13. I love the first song! It makes me want to take on the world,(in a good way, if that makes sense). The second track is a long, repetitive string of alien notes with an awesome bass track to follow. 3 isn't too interesting. The fourth is an awesome piece fit for any mind numbing rave. Track 5 is really good, but it seems to come out quieter than the other songs, so I just turn it louder. 6 seems to have an oriental flare of some sort, pretty neat actually. (I'd bet anything that the sample at the beginning is a vacuum cleaner). Track 7 presents a really good loop of synth percussion. The eighth song is really pretty, I like it a lot, it's very comforting. Like 3, 9 isn't too interesting either, but grows more entertaining towards the end. Track 10 is half-a-minute of something really intense. Track 11 sounds like it should have been on Selected Ambient Works Vol. 2, and 12 is a minute of what sounds like rain and a man hyperventilating. The last song is quite sinister, like an angry synthesizer gaining revenge on humanity. All the way through I can't help but think that AFX put more effort into producing Analogue Bubblebath 4. Sure there are only five tracks,(the last being a snippet of an interview with Evel Knievel,) but they just seem much more thoughtful. I haven't gotten to buying the first bubblebath yet so I can't say anything about that one. Both 3 and 4 are great buys, especially 4. Thanks for reading.
Video Aphex Twin (aka AFX ) - Elephant Song
Aphex Twin aka AFX - Elephant Song taken from the [1994] Analogue Bubblebath EP4 album enjoy let me no if you want others as ive got every one if there albums heres a list [1987] AFX - Analogue Bubblebath EP1 [1st release 1991] [Limited: 500] [1989] Universal Indicator - Red EP [1st release 1993] [Limited: 1000] [1990] GAK - GAK EP [èçäàäåíî 1994] [Limited: ?] [1991] AFX - Analogue Bubblebath EP2 [Limited: 1000] [1992] AFX - Analogue Bubblebath 3+3.1 [1st album, EP collection, released 1993] [1992] Universal Indicator - Blue EP [Limited: 1000] [1992] Power-Pill - Pac-Man [single] [1992] Q-Chastic - Q-Chastic EP [Limited: 100] [1992] Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works Vol.1 [85-92] [2nd album] [1992] Universal Indicator - Ultraviolet EP [1st release 2001] [Limited: 1000] [1993] Caustic Window - Caustic Window Compilation [collected Joyrex EPs 92-93] [1st release 1998] [Limited: 2000+500+300+100+900] [3rd album] [1993] Aphex Twin - On [+ Remixes] [single] [1993] Polygon Window - Surfing on Sine Waves [+ Quoth EP] [4th album] [1993] Universal Indicator - Yellow EP [Limited: 1000] [1994] AFX - Analogue Bubblebath EP4 [Limited: 1000] [1994] Aphex Twin - Classics [92-94] [collected Digeridoo EP + Xylem Tube EP + some unreleased stuff] [5th album] [1994] Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works Vol.2 [2CD] [6th album] [1994] Aphex Twin - Words & Music EP [promo only] [1995] Aphex Twin -...I Care Because You Do [collected 90-94] [7th album] [1995] AFX - Analogue Bubblebath 5 [1st release 2005, 20 copies only] [8th album] [1995] Aphex Twin - Because You don't Give a Fuck EP [unreleased] [1995] Aphex Twin - Dokey Rhubarb EP [1995] Universal Indicator - Green EPs [12"+10"+7"] [Limited: 1000] [1995] AFX - Hangable Auto Bulb EP1+EP2 [Limited: 3000+3000] [re-released 2005 on CD] [1995] Aphex Twin - Melodies from Mars [unreleased, given on about 30 copies on C-90 cassettes] [1995] Aphex Twin - Peel Session EP [unreleased] [1995] Aphex Twin - Ventolin [+ Remixes] [single] [1996] Mike & Rich - Expert Knob Twiddlers [m-Ziq & Aphex Twin] [Limited: ?] [9th album] [1996] Aphex Twin - Richard D. James Album [+ Girl/Boy EP] [10th album] [1997] Aphex Twin - A Live Collection [unreleased] [1997] Aphex Twin - Come to Daddy EP [1997] Aphex Twin - Live in Japan [+ Live at Hallam] [unreleased] [1999] Aphex Twin - Windowlicker EP [multimedia CD] [2000] Aphex Twin - Flex [Soundtrack] [unreleased] [2001] AFX - 2 Remixes by AFX [single] [Limited: ?] [2001] Aphex Twin - Drukqs [2CD] [11th album] [2001] Universal Indicator - Innovation in The Dynamics of Acid [89-95] [Mixed by Kosmik Kommando] [2001] Aphex Twin - Rare & Unreleased [2CD] [unreleased] [2001] Aphex Twin - Sonar Live [unreleased] [2003] Aphex Twin - 26 Mixes for Cash [2CD] [2003] Aphex Twin - Live at Fuse [feat Plastikman & Derrick May] [unreleased] [2003] AFX - Smojphace EP [Limited: ?] [2005] AFX & LFO - 4 Track EP [Limited: 2000] [2005] Acoustica - Alarm Will Sound performs Aphex Twin [Tribute to Aphex Twin] [2005] AFX -- Analord EPs 01-11 [Limited: 500-1000 each] [2006] AFX -- Chosen Lords [collected analords] [12th album]
CTRL - LOSE THE IMAGE














































Ctrl "Lose the Image" Album Review
Album Description
The third studio album from Austin-based electro act CTRL, "Lose The Image" is a powerful mixture of EBM-styled beats, atmospheric guitars, and evocative lyrics. <P>Released on Diffusion Records.
Video CTRL - We Hope
Music Video I directed, edited, and produced for the song "We Hope" by the Electro Death Pop band CTRL form Texas. This song is from their 3rd album "Lose the Image" on Diffusion records.
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