An annihilating delirium of sound and vision, The Royal We shatters preconceived notions of experimentation—with vocal contortions aplenty—and simply vanishes into a surreal dreamworld. We’re not sure how this one slipped under the radar. Perhaps intentionally meant to catch you off-guard, Steven McDonald (aka Twenty Knives) serves The Royal We—a virtual smorgasbord of electronics that flickers uncomfortably between [...]
Post Tagged with: "Hymen"
Hymen & Ant-Zen :: 3View 2011.8
Ant-Zen, and its Hymen offspring, continually pound the ears one release at a time with a passion for revealing the finest in terms of visual-audio electronics welded to industrialized layers. Here’s a trio of releases that hit the shelves over the past several months, and an audio synopsis. [...]
Karsten Pflum :: No Noia My Love (Hymen)
The intermediate moods tucked between these warped low-end frequencies is perhaps Karsten Pflum’s most valued asset. Often a collection of therapeutic electronic debris, No Noia My Love takes Hymen into untapped directions full of spatial funk, corrugated rhythms and sliced melodies that stick to the cerebral cortex with pleasing turbulence. [Listen | Purchase] Taking a [...]
Millipede :: Powerless (Hymen)
Millipede gravitates towards a powerless vision of electronic fog and extracts from his cohorts the finest in audio sculpting amidst a difficult time during the creative process. [Purchase] Powerless, a collaboration project of like-minded musicians (including Caul, Brian Grover, Access To Arasaka, Candle Nine, Lucidstatic, Veil Of Secrecy, Autoclav1.1, Parca Pace and Tapage) casts a [...]
Top releases of twenty-ten
With this article, 151 releases and 25 honorable mentions are highlighted as being titles that garnered the extra spins in 2010. These musicians (and associated labels) offered an abundance of quality productions coming from all corners of the globe with an emphasis on releasing music that doesn’t always follow a defined path. [January 2011] Twenty-ten [...]
Kattoo :: Megrim (Hymen, CD)
(10.14.05) Megrim is totally different from last year’s Places. Instead of a handful of tunes with assorted flavors, here you get a continuous work, made up of twenty cinematic pieces that ebb and flow like a proper soundtrack. While lacking the instant tune effect, Megrim is nonetheless a very intense record, full of drama that [...]
Kattoo :: Places (Hymen, CD)
Kattoo is the solo project of Volker Kahl, one half of Hymen’s resident Beefcake. I always liked the clear sound of the duo, even if they only really impressed me with their last 10″ on Delikatessen. This album is one step beyond though, the production is sharp as usual but the main feature is that [...]
Orphx :: Circuitbreaking (Hymen, CD)
(04.07.04) Circuitbreaking is PhD student Rich Oddie’s – aka Orphx – way of bringing the issue of economic globalization to the attention of the listening public without being overtly political in his method. Studying Environmental Sciences in Toronto, Oddie prefers to let the music speak for itself, utilizing samples from political speeches, protests and films [...]
Gridlock :: Formless (Hymen)
San Francisco’s Mike Wells and Mike Cadoo (a.k.a Gridlock) have set the framework for a new direction of casual chaos on their most recent release with Hymen Records entitled Formless. Blending empty spaces, crumbling percussion, and a detailed magnetic calm throughout, it’s no wonder that they’ve attracted a wide audience over the past several years [...]