VNDL doesn’t just randomly place various sounds in a concatenation of noise; rather, sounds are matched in virtue of their textural rather than tonal harmony; […]
Tag: Hymen
Karsten Pflum :: Sleepwald (Hymen)
A soundtrack for a trip to the Land of Nod as heaven, hell and a lot of purgatory by turns, Sleepwald is a series of […]
Mimetic :: Where We Will Never Go (Hymen)
While on the outside one might consider Where We Will Never Go as a darkened electronic mesh of styles, it also contains sublime textures that weave into […]
Terminal 11 :: Double review (Hymen / Phthalo)
Michael Castaneda, late of Tempe, Arizona, drops a frenetic yet disciplined album entitled Self Exorcism on Hymen Records. Shortly after its release, an EP on Phthalo […]
Displacer :: Foundation (Hymen)
A mixture of solids, liquids and opaque gases, each piece rattles effortlessly as a series of ingredients melt together in a fuzzy subatomic layer. Submerging […]
Frank Riggio :: Psychexcess I – Presentism (Hymen)
Hidden in lurking shadows of analog machines, there’s a beauty that lies within these seemingly eerie soundtracks. At times delving into tribal terrain, what’s in […]
VNDL :: Gahrena: Paysages électriques (Hymen)
Glitch is counterbalanced with contorted bass, alien landscapes, layered and abstract tonal shifts as VNDL unravels obscured musical passages. Philippe Vandal (aka VNDL) hailing from […]
Twenty Knives :: The Royal We (Hymen)
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 […]
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 […]