Just when you thought you couldn’t take anymore compilation’s coming out this year, Neo Ouija takes the platter and spins it with their own textural funk.
Within a handful of quality releases like Metamatics & Clatterbox’s recent Project Unison that tapped into bite-size chunks electronica with melody enriched rhythms, and the first two slabs of wax by Geiom (Edits Metamatics) and Metamatics’ (Colmic Zeus), it’s not hard to see that Neo Ouija has established themselves amongst the poppier melody-driven sounds of armchair electronica.
Cottage Industries contains a wide range of beautiful electronics from relatively unknown and known musicians around the world such as Phonem, Yunx, Bauri, Herrmann and Kleine, Solenoid, Plod and others. Cottage Industries fills the void that experimental electronica seems to leave wide open. Rather than scratching your head at the end of this 73 minute excursion, you’re forced to think, relax, and sit back to contemplate. Solenoid’s “Flawchecker” introduces dribbling beats, a finely tuned piano melody, and skittery ambience while Clatterbox’s “Power Up” makes you want to dance to your old Atari 2100 video games.
It becomes quite an adventure when electronica takes a new shape and form, and Cottage Industries makes that possible by allowing 12 different artists to create their own atmosphere’s. Some tracks, like Quinoline Yellow’s “Eythyl Maltol” allows your mind to play with the dark(er) melodic distortions, while the wide range of cute snaps, squeaks, and beeps tickles your ears for a full 6 minutes.
Neo Ouija has brought to the forefront, a unique set of technicians whose aim is to please your brain cells, and they do this quite well. A job well done by those nifty NeoBot’s.
Artists include Phonem, Bauri, Plod, Geoim, Penfold Plum, Geiom v Infant, Herrmann and Kleine, Quinoline Yellow, Yunx, Clatterbox, Solenoid, and Consumer Durable.
Cottage Industries is out now on Neo Ouija.
