Experimental Electronic Music
Even if the album as a whole isn’t trying to make all of these different styles work together, RamonPang seems to be able to achieve something interesting with all of them, as despite some harsh contrasts in the tracklist, all the tracks eventually manage to pull me in and make me accustomed to their new sound.
Suggesting an exploration of the interplay between geographic spaces and sound, the feeling is of wandering, both in physical and metaphysical senses. The atmosphere fully uses the glitchy modality, like the sound of an old movie, heard underwater, at night.
Unlike the previous release, on 03 Poland, Ard Bits adds what he calls ‘ambient layers’ back home in Rotterdam.
Forgotten Stories is mostly comprised of atmospheric sonic experiments floating into the void, and at times merging into meandering memory streams filled with field recordings and wonder.
It has very spacious music, minimal development, and is best enjoyed on a medium volume level, filling up your space without being too much of a presence.
If a progression exists in Disorganism’s Fear Of Nature, it is from remains of authentic nature to odder and stranger combinations of organic and artificial elements, until the two are impossible to distinguish.
Sooner or later the hissing fades, and there are birds calling and far away there might be distant machines screaming, things clear up before the end of the track, I think we land well in distant electronic spring marshes.
Of all the terrifying monsters that space exploration has brought to humankind, what we do to our own species is by far the greatest horror. We have a dark bloody habit of taking vengeance on our own kind.
Whatever the destinations, the path goes through a multifaceted semi-percussive transformation, weaving melodic fragment elements and cycling through the continuum.
The ambient backdrop Ard Bit waves as to underline the quiet and slow country life depicted in the field recordings.
Nine tracks span around 40-minutes and the thorough sound vistas offer delicately shifting ambient-techno realms blending with pitter-patter glitch’n bleeps debris and braindance shards.
