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Zavoloka ‘1’-zeromoon-3”CDR-beautylittlecompact’o’sleevy

/Lying somewhere in between contemporary classical music and beat electronica, Kateryna Zavoloka makes an invisible bridge between the ultra-intellectual approach of say Pierre Schaeffer and the more relaxed, instinctive melodica-vs.-amiga one of say Trombone. Twenty minutes of digital beatz’n’dronz, sampled-and-hacked vocals, sweet spontaneous tune creation and beauty. Free music: free to electronics like free is to jazz. Another superb 3” from Zeromoon.

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Zeljko Mc Mullen ‘disorder’-shinokyo-CD and see below
/A black CD (too bad it isn’t a carbon CDR, by the way) printed in black (glossy black on mat black so you actually can see what’s printed) into a black cardboard envelope with a handpainted round black insert. Wow. Melodies slowly arise from the noise drones as layers of strings emerge from chaotic walls of synthesis then waves of static shatter the notes away. Wow. All tracks are extremely different and somewhat tightly fit into one another, exploiting and abusing all frequencies within the sonic spectrum. Wow. As the liner notes suggested, I first tried to listen to it at high volume –but my loved one came back to work so I went downstairs to have dinner with her and I left the record playing upstairs and it felt just like the liner notes said it would: pleasantly environmental. Wow. Seen Tarkovski’s ‘Stalker’? This could be the soundtrack to it. Wow. The record is well over the hour mark and flows naturally from beginning to end just like Schultze’s ‘timewind’ did, if Schultze had listened a lot to Lab Report, that is. Wow wow. I’m not of the easily impressed so when I say this record is exceptional you should believe me.

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ZeroMoon sampler-credit card CD

/ZeroMoon is the home of great artists reviewed here on a regular basis and the sampler is even better as one could expect: due to the format, you got 6 tracks on a less than 9’ CD, making you ask for more at the end of each track.

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