Original geschrieben von 2FICKENDEHUNDE
au, sehr fein , thnx!
und, schon 'ne Meinung gebildet?
Zum neuen Ulrich Schnauss muss ich noch hinzufügen, dass das neue sich schon sehr weit vom elektronischen entfernt und fast schon shoegaze ist. Wenns elektronischer sein soll, dann vllt doch mit den Vorgängeralben anfangen.
Weiter gehts:
Tim Hecker - Harmony In Ultraviolet
"Harmony in Ultraviolet is Tim Hecker's sixth album. It is a continuation of Hecker's interest in spectral communications, noise, impressionist musics, thresholds of listening pleasure/pain, and the limits of digital composition. This album is a significant development of his song-craft, challenging the usefulness of descriptors such as ambient, drone, metal, noise and even electronic music. If references are necessary it could be described as a sonata for the elements, songs of crackling embers, tidal pools, spruce skylines and autumn winds. Gerhard Richter's abstract paintings are also a fair orientation. Materially speaking, it is a record of whirring drones, whispering fissures, dense disintegrating chords, late-night noise and truth-telling harmonics. Yet this record follows no overarching process, no underlying narrative. It is both a homage for the Italian partigiani and also not at all. It is songs about ghost writing and midnight whispers but then again it isn't. In many ways this album can be viewed as a work of total destruction, embracing indeterminacy as an aesthetic ideal."
http://www.last.fm/music/Tim+Hecker
http://www.sunblind.net
Autechre - Amber
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Amber was one of the flagship albums of the ambient electronica scene in the mid 90s. Autechre subsequently veered off towards experimental pastures, eschewing the glacial, serene synthscapes featured here in tracks like Montreal and Silverside in favour of fractured beat meltdowns and frenetic pummelling. This is understandable; artists must move with the times, but I personally find Amber and its crisp successor Tri Repetae more palatable recording than later offerings such as Confield and Draft 7.30. What's more, Autechre's older stuff has aged extremely well (compared to say, Orb), so there's no dismissing this as just old hat.
The key theme in Amber is emptiness and absence - just look at the cover - and the music reflects this brilliantly.
Autechre (a synth duo, if you didn't know) are also good at create rhythm patterns that can be listened to in several different ways depending on where you, the listener, put the first beat. There is in other words a kind of musical interactibility. On Slip, for example, the notes are sequenced so that finding the first beat in each bar is impossible. But it doesn't matter. Slip is one of the most exquisite pieces of music ever to see the light of day. It evokes emotions and feelings that other music is incapable of (if you like this you should give Arovane a try).
Montreal is by Autechre's standards a very accessible slice of atmospheric techno, with a straightforward `Mission Impossible' style theme underpinned by seductive tapestry of nibbly noises and elegant pads that fade in and out. Silverside encapsulates the emptiness theme very well; the music is gentle but haunting and otherworldly, distanced and machine-made.
The Autechre aesthetic is encapsulated on the titanic Teartear, which is haunting, ominous yet at the same time extremely beautiful and highly dramatic. Which pretty much sums up this whole album, actually.
If you're new to Autechre I would recommend any of the first three albums: Incunabula, Amber and Tri Repetae. Tri Repetae is slightly crisper but Amber is the more laid back.
One thing: give it a few listens; it gets better and better. "
http://www.last.fm/music/Autechre
http://www.discogs.com/release/2494
Fennesz - Endless Summer
"The abstract quality of this release is going to be the ultimate turn off to most listeners. Because of his reputation as a noise and experimental artist, Fennesz will not have the fan base that is attainable by most electronic acts and even most IDM acts. This is unfortunate because Fennesz has, once again, crafted an album of shimmering beauty that demands to be listened to with your full concentration. This is a demand that only important art can make. This is a demand that only the most ambitious and effective art can make. This is a demand that Fennesz creates in this work."
http://www.stylusmagazine.com/reviews/fennesz/endless-summer.htm
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/17701-endless-summer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLKzqKdF9Zc
Fennesz hat glaube ich auch eine neues Album draussen, eine Kooperation mit irgend einem japanischen Musiker. Das habe ich mir aber bislang noch nicht angehört. (In der heutigen Sz ist ein Artikel darüber)