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Sunday, June 21st, 2009
11:52 pm	iammynewt - Altercation - Coming Fall 2009
Monday, April 20th, 2009
8:25 pm	Connexion Bizarre webcast playlist April 20, 2009. Webcast & Radio Show Part 1 - Click here to stream or right-click to download ("You Need It. You Want It." with music selection by DJ RazorGrrrl) Moctan - Plastic Error Mind (Special Bunker Edit) [V/A. Brighter Than A Thousand Suns - Das Bunker] Hypnoskull - The Most Feared Man On Earth [Industrial Owes Us Money - Ant-Zen Records] Famine - lesion powder sickness (fixed) [Every Mirror Turns Black - Bugs Crawling Out of People] Interlope - New World Order [Petits Arrangements Entre Amis - Expressillon] Dev/Null - Gorechestra [Necrobestial Sadobreaks - Cock Rock Disco] Marching Dynamics - Confederate [The Workers Party Of Haiti - Hymen Records] Edgey - Malice Spoils [The Abuse Technique - Hive Records] iammynewt vs. Skullduggery - shitMuppET [Ohaka - Trozoc] Synth-Etik - Four More Points [Phantom - Hands Productions] Bong-Ra - House of Armageddon [V/A. Maschinenfest 2008 - Pflichtkauf] Rabbit Junk - Power [Project Nonagon - The Struggle II - RabbitJunk.com] DJ Donna Summer - Rock Rock Rock (Aaron Spectre Remix) [V/A. Rock Rock Rock Remixes - Cock Rock Disco] End - A Girl Called Trouble [A Girl Called Trouble - AeroCCCP Recordings]
Wednesday, March 25th, 2009
12:09 am	Lucidstatic - Gravedigger Review by Moving Hands Magazine ..Lucidstatic .."Gravedigger".. Format: CD Online date: 2/3 Label: Tympanik Audio Genre: breakcore, experimental 8/10 Mmm, at last I found something to make me wake up on this horrid Sunday afternoon. This entity origins from the cold and vast landscapes of Alaska and the music is breakcore/industrial/power noise/experimental/IDM etc. Seventeen tracks and a duration of over one hour and nine minutes makes this album sure worth your hard earned money. It's a very complex album with a whole lot of things going on all the time. All songs differ a lot and that's great because you don’t get bored after a few songs as can happen with this kind of music. There are a whole lot of collaborators on this album too: Mono Penguin, The Plastic Eulogy, Ironworm, Sumbraxis, Downstroyd and Iammynewt to be precise. I think the mix of all these genres I mentioned earlier is really making the music original and I can't wait to hear more from Lucidstatic in the future, until then this record will spin a lot in my stereo. ../Johannes van der Meer http://www.movinghands.net/reviews/detail.asp?id=1151
Thursday, February 19th, 2009
9:49 pm	ReGen Magazine Review Of Digital Decay Various Artists Digital Decay Trozoc Productions / Death Wax Records Posted: Thursday, February 19, 2009 By: Ilker Yücel Editor Trozoc Productions' noisome compilation of post-industrial, glitch-laden instrumental artists at least does its part to present the current crop of underground artists. Chris Cozort has certainly been doing well for himself in the underground music scene, making his name as a producer and mastering engineer for artists as diverse as Cyanotic, Diverje, Mangadrive, and even the legendary Pigface. Having released several tracks on various compilations under his Iammynewt moniker, he released on his Trozoc Productions label the Ohaka collaboration with Skullduggery, presenting the world with his own inimitable style full of deep synthesized bass lines and edgy glitch-laden rhythms. Now in association with Death Wax Records, Trozoc releases Digital Decay, showcasing as every good compilation does a cross-section of the scene's current rising stars in the world of underground post-industrial. Kicking off the album with a bang are Copy Paste Repeat, blazing out a series of noisy sample and synth manipulations and choppy breakbeats that would make Aphex Twin's "Come to Daddy" sound like child's play, and Adonikam's equally frantic "Corrosion," a powerful track that meshes elements of extreme metal with drum & bass as chilled out ambient progressions of pads and pianos creep in and out of the mix. The rest of the compilation attempts to follow suit, but when listening to the overly repetitive beats and bass lines of Iammynewt's "Back UP" or the slow buildup and tense atmospheres that ultimately never reach a satisfying climax on Pask's "Too Human," one realizes that Digital Decay is not going to be without its duds. This is not to say that there are any truly bad tracks on the album; while the creepy electroclash rhythms and ambient loops of Iammynewt's "Egor" may be a tad repetitive, or the thrumming bass under subdued sonic environments akin to a pitch black forest create a sensation that is simultaneously soothing and tensely eerie, they may not be the best tracks, but they're not lacking in enjoyment. Mangadrive's "Archaicruin" deserves a fair amount of praise for not being your ordinary club track as it contains some rather interesting synth progressions and effects that belie the simplicity of the beats, while "Alpha Prefix[ed]" by Adipocere is perhaps the most surprising entry as it begins simply enough with bass, beats, and samples that almost seem whimsically childish in their rudimentary nature, but then the track does a complete 180 as gated synths overlay a slightly more industrialized beat, making for an old school sounding track. From the spectral ambiences and abstract progressions of rubbery bass and intense breaks in Cyrusrex's "Atmostfear" to the disturbing cacophony of tweaked distortion and noise that ends the compilation in "Burn an X in Your Head" by Eating Wires & Lighting Fires, Digital Decay is by no means a perfect collection of the scene's hottest stars. One can certainly tell that there are some truly forward-thinking and talented artists arising in the post-industrial scene, while others seem to still be struggling to find their footing and identify themselves with a sound and style worth paying attention to. But of course, this is the purpose of any compilation, and one hopes that even in the less-than-stellar tracks that audiences will find something to hold their interest. Taken from: http://www.regenmag.com/Reviews-1771-Various-Artists-Digital-Decay.html
Thursday, February 12th, 2009
10:11 pm	CYBERAGE RADIO PLAYLIST 2/1/09 LISTEN now---- http://www.cyberage.cx the most diverse and steady mix of elektronic music... from the underground! 5 hours a week....new shows,new music, new views, mixes, and some ranting fun! http://www.dsbp.cx -the DSBP catalog with lotsa great deals, specials and carrying all the best independent EBM, electro-industrial,synthpop,power noise,experimental and dark d'n'b,ambient,glitch,static,deep bass,and ethereal electronics..and more. *Hear us LIVE each Saturday Late night from 1-6 am (MST)on the link. http://www.kunm.org (505) 277-5615...call live! and see what up! for more info and submission info,please send an e-mail to.. (tommyt@dsbp.cx) Hello to all! The new CYBERAGE RADIO SHOW is UP! the 2/1/09 show.download it /stream it.PLease think of others too, and don't use up all the bandwidth..We do our best to keep it diverse and a mix of new and intresting electro-industrial,coldwave,EBM,power noise,IDM, experimental,darkwave,drum-n-bass,glitch,breakbeat and more sub genres that all encompass the CYBERAGE! ================================================================= Lots of new and hot electronic/industrial/synthpop power noise/d'n'b/freeform music to cover tonight.. 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Monday, February 9th, 2009
11:37 pm	Wounds of the earth Lucidstatic interview... Friday, February 6, 2009 Lucidstatic Interview An interview with Lucidstatic, quasi-fresh from releasing his debut album "Gravedigger" on Tympanik Audio. So how’s the weather up there in Alaska? It’s been pretty fucking cold down here. It’s been hit or miss lately, we had a cold snap that lasted a few weeks where it stayed about -20 but now at least we’re in the positives Further up north it was falling to -40 with winds. Harsh weather That is nuts man, how do you stay alive? Hide indoors, smoke outside away from the electronics, fuck all winter and consume large quantities of whiskey.lol So I can’t think of any other musicians from Alaska off the top of my head. What’s good there? Bands/clubs/scene etc? It seems like the clubs cater to rap/rock/metal acts primarily. The underage clubs use to host diverse genres, but due to politics and a lack of respect for what they/we had most of the clubs have vanished. All that is really left is the occasional rave. Other great electro acts up here consist of PigFat, Saturn never Sets, Dyschord, MDP and a few odds and ends. The ability to play a gig locally though is pretty limited for the genre unless you know a few people, or you could do the four on the floor rave bit. So, Alaska is right next to Canada. Now Canada has a fucking awesome electronic music scene, although maybe moreso on the Eastern Side. Do you think that awesomeness leaks over into Alaksa, or is it all a bunch of Sarah Palins who shoot wolves from airplanes? I’m leaning towards the latter. Seems like in the last 10 years industrial/electro fell off the map. Now it’s emo scream and hot topic clones Ok, so now for the generic question: what is Lucidstatic? How did you come up with the name? The name is one I came up over a decade ago. I used it originally as a pen name for ‘zines etc. the idea is understanding the static...making sense of the randomness of life. I figured it wouldn’t pigeonhole or stereotype so I used it for my first solo project which has taken on a mind all of its own. Now the name fits more than ever. Your style is a mash up of a whole bunch of different and crazy electronic styles (breakcore, idm, glitch, noise, etc). What made you want to work with this style of music? How did you get into this kind of stuff? It began due to the classic missing musician at band practices. I had lent odds and ends to a few projects and nothing ever became of them due to over production or general lack of drive to put it out for the public. I began fully working with software in about 2003. I became pretty familiar with Reason 1.0 and Fruity Loops. Over time I began using a midi keyboard, attempting to get accustomed/coordinated after years of playing guitar and bass. Slowly the music started gathering a nice balance of live recording to software sequencing. On the style of music…I love music that has the power to kick you in the balls. I hate the happy pop because it seems like sitcom life where you always think “who lives like that?”. I like something gritty and dirty that doesn’t pull any punches. Why did you name your album “Gravedigger”? The idea for the name came from sifting through old works that had a great basis but poor execution. It felt like I was robbing graves and rearranging the parts … I had two favorite tracks that sadly got cut from the release but I’m going to push for them on the next, ‘Represent’ and ‘Bad Feeling’. ‘Bad Feeling’, the original was on my lo-fi debut back in 05, “Air Filter”, and I still love the drums on it. ‘Knuckledust’ and ‘Headhunter’ had been nothing more than songs of sequenced drums until The Plastic Eulogy and Mono Penguin threw down. Just breathing some new life and letting the dead walk about. You’ve got a bunch of collaborative tracks on the album. Why do you choose to do collabs, and is this going to be something that you continue on to future releases? I love collabs. I ,like many others, criticize the hell out of what I do. But I love so many other people’s work that when I got the chance for a label release I was like “jump onboard”. I’ve been working with Mangadrive, iammynewt and Angel of Violence both for over a year now and I wanted them to get the notice I think they deserve. Me and Mono Penguin had been working on each others tracks here and there and collabin’ on remixes so, why not right? Ironworm and downstroyD are two of my close friends in AK so that made for some easy collabs due to locale. I came across The Plastic Eulogy and simply loved his sound and talent (i.e. I want to eat his brains) so I wanted to get his take on some drums and the result was ‘Knuckledust’ (which originally was going to have vocals...maybe next time..?) I just enjoy workin’ with people. As long as they’re dedicated than we can bounce off each other and the results…goddamn! Is there another Lucidstatic album in the works? What can we expect? Right now I’m working on a few projects with other people including finishing work on the upcoming Pandora’s Black Book and Angel of Violence releases. I should be releasing a download from the label of Gravedigger remixes and a net label was interested in some work soooooo...I have a dream themed album in the works. I think the next full length disc released by Tympanik will be incredible…you can probably expect some guest slots and more NOISE Tell me about the Lucidstatic studio. Hardware/software? Hardware: microkorg, electribe emx, electribe er1,electribe ea1, kaospad kp3 roland sp606, rolandtr505, maudio triggerfinger and 49 key midi keyboard, shure mics, a couple broken alesis drum machines, epiphone guitar, buncha pedals, spider line 6 amp, circuit bent speak and math Software: reason 4.0, soundforge, audacity, fruity loops 7, audition, recycle, some NI instruments and scattered VST Interesting that you have a circuit bent speak and math. Did you bend that yourself? Any plans for more weird noise generating devices? A friend, brian bent it and gave it to me as a present. He got me hooked on the circuit bent and tape destroy genres. New twisted toys? Maybe, I know for a fact I will be tinkering with field recording gear for some ambience/royalty free samples What’s a good bit of studio advice? Try and try again. Sometimes the problem is just the smallest adjustment or one misplaced cord. Learn your equipment and know how to EQ and reduce residual noise. You can make the greatest music never heard by man because the sound quality was so bad. I listen to my work from 2004 and 05 and wow...always try to improve your understanding and never be afraid to ask for advice from other musicians. So you’ve got another project called Pandora’s Black Book. What’s that one all about? What kind of style, what’s different, when does the album drop, etc? That would be my melodic meets experimentation project. Anything that falls outside of what I want for lucidstatic, pandora grabs and revises. The project is much more string/piano oriented but often runs close to sounding like lucidstatic with some of its grittier tracks. We’ll call it the soft side of the noise. What have you been listening to lately? Stone temple pilots, 12 rounds, broken fabiola, esa, danzig, gnr, some ministry/revco, access to arasaka off EO2, tapage, larvae, cubanate and god I could go on and on I usually have a couple discs on rotation in the bedroom and car stereo and then some on the pc I’m a music junky all around man links: Tympanik Audio Lucidstatic Lucidstatic on Myspace POSTED BY DAN BARRETT AT 8:35AM Taken from: http://woundsoftheearth.blogspot.com/
Tuesday, January 6th, 2009
12:51 am	Chain D.L.K. review of Lucidstatic - Gravedigger! Artist: LUCIDSTATIC [ jimmy {at} crlstudio {dot} com ] Title: Gravedigger Format: CD Label: Tympanik Audio [ info {at} tympanikaudio {dot} com ] Distributor: Ant-Zen Rated: Nowadays Electro/Industrial scene brings only very seldom artists to the daylight, which can use the term ”innovative” to describe someone’s music style. The Alaska-based sole effort of Jimmy Church, LUCIDSTATIC, is surely one of this few acts, on which this term doesn’t sound platitudinous. We had Jimmy and LUCIDSTATIC, as well as his rather Downtempo-like side-project PANDORA’S BLACK BOOK already with some previous and self-released items on here. So I’ve been warned in advance what kind of storm would join my home entertainment. Even if it is fucking cold for the most part in Alaska, LUCIDSTATIC offers a hot and heavily pounding rhythm torturing kind of music. By taking inspiration out of styles like IDM, Breakcore, Powernoise and classic Industrial tunes, the percussive elements are the leading and driving force behind this act. Complex rhythm programming can sound layered, here you’ll get the proof for this thesis. And if Jimmy integrates too a sort of a synth-driven ambience in between his percussion rows, he earns surely the most applause for tracks like ”Mercy Of A Bullet”, ”Unknown Test Subject” or P4tr10t”. Some special collaboration with different but rather more unknown acts like IAMMYNEWT, SUMBRAXIS or THE PLASTIC EULOGY are featured as well. ”Gravedigger” is a pure adrenaline-driven onslaught, whose valuable content needs to get discovered. Worth to spend your bucks on!. Taken from: http://www.chaindlk.com/reviews/?id=4872
Friday, January 2nd, 2009
11:58 pm	"Ohaka" mentioned in Regen Mag's Top 10 of 2008! Dec 31 Top 10 Albums of 2008 Posted by: Ilker Yücel It's that time of the year again, when the holidays come and go, when we look back and reflect on what we've learned and experienced over the last 12 months, when we think of all the good and bad things that have helped to shape us into the people we become. Music is a large part of that experience, and each year always leaves some sort of lasting impression as we think about those songs, albums, and artists that etch themselves into our minds forever. Last year, ReGen Magazine offered the readers the Top 10 Albums of 2007, eschewing our past method of simply posting a cross section of the staff's individual picks for the year. Continuing down that path, we now give you the Top 10 Albums of 2008 as selected and voted by our various staff and contributors. These are the albums that we as individuals and we as the whole of ReGen feel stand above the tremendous amount of music released in 2008, paving the way for newer and better music to make its way in the future. 10. Memmaker: How to Enlist in a Robot Uprising (Hive Records) Montreal's Memmaker has certainly made an impression with a rousing brand of technofied EBM and hard trance that belies the noisier excursions of both Hive Records and band member Yann Faussier's work in Iszoloscope. Together with Guillaume Nadon, Faussier has crafted an album of pure, unadulterated electro energy that has taken clubs by storm, brushing similar acts like Combichrist and Modulate aside for supremacy of the dance floor. Part of the appeal of How to Enlist in a Robot Uprising is the humor employed as they take overly familiar samples from films like Total Recall and The Lost Boys and utilize them in ways that seem to revel in absurdity, as if to poke fun at the clichés of a scene that they are part of. Robotic synth and vocal effects combined with drum and percussive patterns that border on rudimentary would also seem hackneyed and lazy if not for the sense that Memmaker were deliberate in their use of such overused formulas, albeit given an acidic edge thanks to the band members' experience with rhythmic and experimental noise. One can hardly call the album a groundbreaking set of music, but one listen to How to Enlist in a Robot Uprising makes it clear that it was intended to be quite simply... fun. It's a party album, and every year, there should always be at least one of those that everybody can get into. This is it! 09. Bauhaus: Go Away White (Bauhaus Music) They are one of the purveyors of goth rock, captivating audiences for decades with their sometimes sinister and surreal, always mysterious and enticing style. Bauhaus made quite the splash in 2008 with their fifth studio album, their first in 25 years, and what the band has stated will be their final outing... and what an outing it is, bidding farewell to their illustrious career with 10 songs that were recorded in 18 days in 2006. While the band's chemistry is unquestionably in action within these songs, Go Away White possesses a whimsical urgency that may seem unbecoming the band's past work to longtime fans. However, one simply can not deny the interplay between Daniel Ash's sonorous and ever experimental guitar tones with Peter Murphy's distinguished and impassioned croon, backed by the roaring bass of David J. and the deceptively simplistic percussion of Kevin Haskins; it's the Bauhaus we've all come to know and love over the years, tempered by maturity and experience, still pursuing their dark and bittersweet sonic designs. Perhaps this album should've been released more than two decades ago during their heyday; perhaps they needed that time to make an ultimate statement to encapsulate their legacy; perhaps they came full circle only to realize that time had changed them, their music, and the world enough that they dared not become anachronistic... who can say? If nothing else, 2008 can be remember as the year Bauhaus made their final fervent farewell to the world. 08. Angelspit: Blood Death Ivory (Dancing Ferret Discs) Australia's Angelspit has been steadily making waves in the goth/industrial scene with their aggressive use of caustic beats and bass lines, topped off with an adrenalized delivery of playful vocals and lyrics. Some might consider it by-the-numbers club-style industrial, and it is not without that element of appealing to the dance floor-centered masses. However, the band expands on the fetishistic sexual energies exhibited by their debut, last year's Krankhaus, and drives their formula further to incorporate themes of society's obsession with self-centeredness, demonstrating a development of their lyrical qualities. As well, the duo of Destroyx and ZooG put all of their production and sound design powers to the fore, making Blood Death Ivory every bit as in-your-face as their debut. It's hard to say if they represent the future of the industrial/electro scene, but with their sophomore album coming so strong and so soon after Krankhaus, one can definitely tell that Angelspit's shining star remains bright. 07. Autoclav1.1: Love No Longer Lives Here (Tympanik Audio) With the lines that differentiate genres becoming steadily blurred to the point of becoming nonexistent, it takes a certain kind of artist to make something really special that stands out in the field. Autoclav1.1 is one such artist as with Love No Longer Lives Here, Tony Young has taken his brand of glitch-laden ambient IDM into more organic territories, incorporating elements the heavy guitars and symphonic elements of dark metal with his usual experimental electronic modes. Sweeping strings and frigid pianos mesh with intricate beat structures, topped off by a healthy dose of sonic angst, creating a sound that is at once emotionally intense and technically complex. Released on Tympanik Audio, a label that has been making an impression in 2008 with their steadily growing array of adventurous and experimental artists in the field of noise, ambient, and all points in between, and with appearances by ESA's Jamie Blacker and Cradle of Filth's Dave Pybus, Autoclav1.1's Love No Longer Lives Here is a remarkable effort that stands as an example of what music in the post-industrial genre can achieve when more attention is paid to evolving the style and tearing down the barriers. 06. Left Spine Down: Fighting for Voltage (Bit Riot Records / Synthetic Entertainment) Vancouver has been home to some of industrial music's most revered acts, most famously Skinny Puppy and Front Line Assembly. Now adding to the ranks is Left Spine Down, and with their debut album, Fighting for Voltage, the band ushers in a new brand of industrial rock, full of drum & bass textures, caustic synthesized atmospheres, and guttural guitar glitches - a combination the band has dubbed iPunk. Produced by FLA's Chris Petersen, Fighting for Voltage recalls all the belligerent and uncompromising spirit of ‘90s coldwave, complete with several distorted ambient interludes. Top it off with lyrics that touch on the most extreme ends of the sociopolitical climate, everything from the apocalypse to technology's grasp on modern society, and you have a recipe for what has become one of the most celebrated new acts to emerge in the last five years. Originally released via the Synthetic Entertainment label earlier in 2008, the album was reissued on Bit Riot Records soon after, joining alongside fellow industrial rockers like Cyanotic and mindFluxFuneral. If nothing else, this serves as an indication not for the resurgence of coldwave and industrial rock in the underground music scene, but Fighting for Voltage also proves Left Spine Down's potential to be among the next generation of industrial heroes, forging a new path that blends the best elements of the old and new. 05. Einstürzende Neubauten: The Jewels (Potomak Records) Few bands have been as prolific and as forward-thinking in the industrial genre as Einstürzende Neubauten. With countless releases under their belt, Blixa Bargeld & co. have taken their creative process a step further than most with their online supporters program through which fans can participate in critiquing the band's new material as it is being written. Such was the case with The Jewels, originally released one track at a time as a digital only album, reissued in 2008 as a full-length release. While the band never strayed from their use of unorthodox instrumentation, always holding true to their industrial roots using everything from power tools to homemade objects, Neubauten had employed a greater use of melody and more traditional song structures since the mid ‘90s. As such, The Jewels presented a welcome return to their earlier work, relying less on accessible melodies and more on experimental and abrasive atmospheres reminiscent of earlier classics like Halber Mensch and Zeichnungen des Patienten O.T., albeit perhaps less caustic. Ever the avant-garde noisemakers, Einstürzende Neubauten clearly made The Jewels as much to satisfy their adventurous spirits as for those fans that have stuck with them just long enough to allow them to come full circle and offer up a work that was as transcendental as anything they released during their inception. 04. Amanda Palmer: Who Killed Amanda Palmer? (Roadrunner Records) Who Killed Amanda Palmer? That is indeed the question, for this first solo outing from Dresden Dolls member Amanda Palmer is one of the most eclectic displays of dark cabaret and alternative pop music ever released. Palmer's vocal delivery is as erratic as the songs themselves, her voice running the gamut from restrained and brooding to vitriolic and biting to frantic and purely melodic, often times recalling Robert Smith at his best. Spinning eccentric and energetic tales that are lyrically often deeper than their titles would indicate, the music may seem stripped down at its core, never little more than piano, drums, and strings. However, it is this minimalist mentality combined with Palmer's penchant for seemingly flying off-the-cuff in a musical frenzy that allows this solo album to stand apart from her work with the Dresden Dolls. With appearances Rasputina's Zoë Keating, Dead Kennedys' East Bay Ray, and Ben Folds, Who Killed Amanda Palmer? is every bit as mysterious as the title would indicate, but as the essay by Neil Gaiman in the album's liner notes portrays, the music is not without an element of the quirky and even a touch of the psychotic. 03. Portishead: Third (Mercury Records) More than a decade after their last release, Beth Gibbons, Geoff Barrow, and Adrian Utley - collectively known as Portishead - returned with their long anticipated and appropriately titled Third album. However, those expecting the band to rehash its renowned style of audio noir and jazzy trip-hop were undoubtedly surprised to find that the band had a few tricks up its sleeves. Still as dark as ever and no less experimental with their sonic flights of fancy, but Third saw the band pursuing a much more electronic, even industrial sound, layered overtop their familiar beats adorned by the haze of a decrepit vinyl record. Gone are the turntable scratches, replaced by understated synthesizer flourishes and dreamy acoustic twinkles the likes of which would send chills down the most hardened soul's spine. But if that sounds like too much of a deviation in style for you, fear not, for Gibbons' voice is as cold and as brooding as ever, making it easy to imagine her on a smoky stage backed by a band sullenly playing at 2:00am singing her tales of heartbreak and bitterness. To hear her sing is a reminder to all of us that this is indeed the Portishead we've missed for over a decade, and that given enough time, a good band can surpass itself and live up to the promise made by their past successes. 02. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Dig, Lazarus Dig!!! (Anti Records) One of the longest enduring acts in the alternative rock and underground goth scene, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds have always defied strict categorization, infusing elements of rock, blues, vaudevillian cabaret, and dark jazz into a sound that is at once melancholy, capricious, and introspective. As the second album since longtime member and Einstürzende Neubauten front man Blixa Bargeld's departure, and the first since the release of the Grinderman side project, Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! is something of a rarity in the band's discography, possessing a much more stripped down, garage rock sound, not entirely devoid of their morose atmospheres, but injected with a bit of sonic haberdashery that finds the band at their most upbeat. While Cave has never shied from allowing glasslike shards of light to show through his lyrical and vocal darkness, he's rarely even sounded so enthused as he does on this album, at times even sounding like David Byrne with a slight case of smoker's cough. However, it is all of these qualities that help make Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! stand as an indication of the band's willingness to defy their own set of conventions and prove that their exploratory spirit has not waned with age, a trait that is so sorely lacking in today's goth underground scene. Bands and artists from all walks of life would do well to take a lesson from Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds' example. 01. ohGr: Devils in My Details (SPV Records) Leave it to a living legend to produce a work so expansive and experimental that it not only stands out in his already impressive discography, but also manages to land the number one spot for 2008. With Devils in My Details, Nivek Ogre and Mark Walk left behind the pop musings of their previous two albums under the ohGr moniker in favor of something more in line with their collective musical adventurousness. Derived from a single extended jam session, the songs on this album forego linearity and familiarity, instead focusing on a sonic stream of consciousness that plays as a complementary mirror to Ogre's famous erratic and mind-altering lyrical skills. That's not to say that there aren't a few catchy moments on the record, although they are scattered amid the sea of macabre soundscapes and explosively dark energies, not unlike what one would hear in Ogre's work with Skinny Puppy, although thankfully, Devils in My Details retains an individual character separate from both Skinny Puppy and past ohGr releases. As if that weren't enough, cult horror actor Bill Moseley - with whom Ogre acted in this year's Oscar-nominated Repo! The Genetic Opera - lends his own brand of eccentricity in the form of several spoken word passages. It's no wonder Devils in My Details makes ReGen's number one album of 2008; not only did it transcend the trappings of convention (both those of the genre and those of the band's previous output), but it also found acceptance with an audience demanding something new and exciting. Voting for a mere 10 albums is never an easy task, and it's fair to say that there are always many more great albums to be considered as being among the best of the year. Indeed, Aesthetic Perfection's A Violent Emotion and genCAB's II transMuter were among the highest rated releases, both full of blistering industrial textures with danceable rhythms, appealing to both the club crowds in search of abandon and those who prefer to listen intently through headphones. And then you have the more avant-garde and experimental releases from the likes of Iammynewt vs. Skullduggery with Ohaka, on which both artists duel in a series of frenetic glitch-laden industrial soundscapes, augmented by fractured breakbeats and subtle electro grooves. The same can be said of the furiously haunting The Angels of Prostitution by Worms of the Earth, a debut album that blurs the lines between dark ambient, power noise, and industrial in ways that could make even the most jaded horror film and music aficionado cringe in terror. There is also the belligerent EBM of Psy'Aviah's Entertainment Industries, blasting out their own brand of unapologetic industrial dance music, as well as the lush ambiences and melodic depth of Ascension of the Watchers' Numinosum. Tentative Response by Torrent Vaccine also deserves mention for its instrumental passages of ominous, gloomy, and sometimes oppressive atmospheres creating a sense of apocalyptic foreboding. On the other end of the instrumental spectrum was The Synthetic Dream Foundation' s Behind the Gates of Horn and Ivory, full of mystical excursions into trip-hop, classical, and hard electro for an eclectically enjoyable combination of sounds and styles. Other notable releases included Manufactura's Psychogenic Fugue, Avi Ghosh's Severing the Tie, and Uberbyte's Sic. Even the compilation releases of Extreme Women in the Dark Future and Gears Gone Wild by machinKUNT and Glitch Mode Recordings respectively deserve praise for their introduction of new and exciting acts to the goth/electro/industrial scene. So there you have it. Another year has passed, and more music has made its way to our speakers. Some of it has perhaps been not up to par, and one could even say a fair share of it downright sucked. And some, like those albums that we've mentioned here, has been rather exceptional. As ReGen remains steadfast in its dedication to being the most informative resource for the underground goth/industrial/electro scene and in promoting creativity and innovation, the Top 10 Albums of 2008 will hopefully stand as yet another example of just how far the music and the scene have come, as well as inspire another year of better music to come in the years to come! Taken From: http://www.regenmag.com/Blog-46-Top-10-Albums-of-2008.html
Saturday, December 13th, 2008
11:03 pm	Empty - Never Get To You, featuring iammynewt!!! After some delay, we are proud to announce the launch of our latest release: "Never Get To You". We are now taking orders through the Aphotic Audio Online Store. The CDs will be shipping Monday 22nd of December. If you prefer to download the tracks, ShallowNation.net is offering an exclusive digital MP3 download of the release through the shop on their new website: www.shallownation.net Never Get To You sculpts the beginning of a new era for Empty, highlighting new sounds from the upcoming album through the fusion of Electronic-Industrial with elements of Glitch and pulsing electronics overlaid with vast, sweeping soundscapes. Featuring two new tracks, plus a cover of the cult classic "King of Kings" by The Models alongside remixes by Dismantled, ANGELTHEORY, Pask and iammynewt.
Tuesday, November 11th, 2008
12:08 am	Digital Decay is unleashed today! Track Listing 1. Copy Paste Repeat - A Track I Made 2. Adonikam - Corrosion 3. iammynewt - Egor 4. Lucidstatic - P4tr10t 5. Adipocere - blood money 6. Pask - too human [version] 7. mangadrive - archaicruin 8. Searad - War Of Delaus 9. Wolf Lust - The Book 10. Copy Paste Repeat - Headache 11. iammynewt vs Torrent Vaccine - KUTOFF 12. cyrusrex - atmostfear 13. iammynewt - back UP 14. Adipocere - alpha prefix[ed] 15. dino felipe - white shirts stain 16. Eating Wires & Lighting Fires - Burn An X In Your Head Everyone who has already pre-ordered copies... They are on the way!!!! If you did not pre-order your copy of "Digital Decay" need I remind you they are LIMITED EDITION!!!! Only 300 CDs pressed up for the world and they are way BOSS, so order yous today! Only $6 bucks from the estore here: http://www.theconnextion.com/iammynewt/ 16 Tracks of great original electronic music and fantastic art from Bomba! Get yours today! This fine CD release brought to you by the folks at TROZOC and Death Wax Records...
Thursday, October 30th, 2008
12:02 am	New track in the MySpace player!!!! http://www.mypace.com/iammynewt iammynewt's "Egor" taken from the up and coming "Digital Decay" compilation CD out soon by Trozoc/Death Wax!!!! It is track 3 on the disc and is one of 3, yes that's right 3!!!! original iammynewt tracks to appear only on this CD ever, so go pre-order yours here today for only $6.00!!!! But do it soon, as it is LIMITED to 300 copies!!!! Order it here today: http://www.theconnextion.com/iammynewt/ and treat your ears to some genuine ear candy!!!! <3 -n3w+
Friday, October 3rd, 2008
11:46 pm	Digital Decay - Pre-orders being taken now! Order Today, Ships By November! Track Listing 1. Copy Paste Repeat - A Track I Made 2. Adonikam - Corrosion 3. iammynewt - Egor 4. Lucidstatic - P4tr10t 5. Adipocere - blood money 6. Pask - too human [version] 7. mangadrive - archaicruin 8. Searad - War Of Delaus 9. Wolf Lust - The Book 10. Copy Paste Repeat - Headache 11. iammynewt vs Torrent Vaccine - KUTOFF 12. cyrusrex - atmostfear 13. iammynewt - back UP 14. Adipocere - alpha prefix[ed] 15. dino felipe - white shirts stain 16. Eating Wires & Lighting Fires - Burn An X In Your Head To Pre-order for only $6.00!!!! Go here now and reserve one of the finest electronic music compilations EVER RELEASED!!!! Click this link to Pre-order your copy of this Limited Edition Pressing: http://www.theconnextion.com/iammynewt/ Because when these gems are GONE, they are GONE! Only 300 copies to be released!!!! Don't miss out!!!! - Trozoc/Death Wax Camp
Friday, September 26th, 2008
11:26 pm	Connexion Bizarre Magazine Review Of Mangadrive - T.B.W.N.R. featuring iammynewt! Mangadrive - These.Blades.Will.Never.Rust CD, Trozoc/cyberninja.digital, 2008 www.mangadrive.net A big hand, everyone, for Mangadrive - not so much for the quality of the music presented on "These.Blades.Will.Never.Rust", but most definitely for their accompanying attitude. This album is not deeply provocative, nor is it emotionally stirring, nor even crammed full of sentiment and pretension. It is unapologetic, hi-energy dance music, pure, simple and unadulterated by lofty ideals and messages. It bangs out a blistering rhythmic tattoo into the unsuspecting skulls of its listeners, an aural shot of espresso that has the potential to kickstart any dancefloor. And that includes the mainstream: despite the underground, darker nature (suggested by song titles like "Rolling out the black carpet" and "Forced to drink") of Mangadrive's musical mayhem, there is palpable commercial appeal - as far as hard house and techno clubs are concerned - evident throughout the entire process of neatly compressed percussion, gut-rumbling basslines and straightforward melodies. Simple arrangements coupled with tight production and meticulous attention to detail makes this a particularly crisp release - an impressive feat in itself, considering the high BPM involved. This gives "These.Blades.Will.Never.Rust" one more endearing quality: as well as the undeniable dance appeal, the dynamic, well constructed aspect of the recording makes the album listenable as well - if only in small doses to avoid the associated embarrassment of "getting' down" in the workplace, or car, or wheresoever you find yourself listening to Mangadrive... Collaborations with Iammynewt and Viscera Drip add a bit more dimension to the album (which, admittedly, does become a bit too much of the same thing after a while) on "Rolling out the black carpet" and "Karma", respectively. In particular, the vocal component on the latter is inspirational. Its gritty texture juxtaposed with the clean, untreated synth melody (a staple in Mangadrive's sonic arsenal) is, without a doubt, the highlight here. Nice work. -- David vander Merwe [8/10] Taken from: http://www.connexionbizarre.net/reviews/r_mangadrive_tbwnr.htm
Thursday, August 28th, 2008
11:23 pm	New Lower Prices For CD's at the iammynewt Store! Notes From The Real Underground: Volume V - Now just 8.00 Open Aeon - Now just 6.00 Hordes Of The Elite - Now just 8.00 Dark Sonus - Now just 8.00 All of these and more available direct through the iammynewt eStore here: http://www.theconnextion.com/iammynewt/
Friday, August 22nd, 2008
12:42 am	iammynewt featured in this months Connextion's eSpotlight! Check it out here: http://www.theconnextion.com/spotlight.cfm
Wednesday, August 13th, 2008
1:45 am	Anarki Vs The World I have just come across a remix album "Anarki Vs The World" that iammynewt took part in awhile back. This release features other great artists such as Martin Atkins(Pigface), Shai(Lords Of Acid), Angel(Dope), En Esch(KMFDM), Praga Khan, Sindaddy, etc... doing various remixes/versus tracks of ANARKI tunes. iammynewt did the song "Lost Children" and the remix title is: Comes Around Mix. Check it out if you can... It's up at Amazon MP3 heRe!!!! More news soon kiddies!
Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
12:01 am	mangadrive - These Blades Will Never Rust OUT NOW! Featuring iammynewt!!!! August 5, 2008 mangadrive - "These Blades Will Never Rust" Album! Featuring 13 tracks of chaos-laden industrial programming over modern electronica grooves. Track 1 "Rolling Out The Black Carpet" is a collaboration with iammynewt! Check it out!!!! Available from:
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
12:48 am	Lucidstatic - Gravedigger OUT NOW! Featuring iammynewt!!!! July 29, 2008 Lucidstatic - "Gravedigger" CD! Featuring 17 tracks of breakcore, powernoise and classic industrial elements. Track 17 "Defiance" is a collaboration with iammynewt! Check it out!!!! Available from:
Monday, July 28th, 2008
1:12 am	iammynewt in the Artist Spotlight at ReGen Iammynewt Posted: Sunday, July 27, 2008 By: Ilker Yücel Editor Review by: Ilker Yücel BIOGRAPHY Chris Cozort has been steadily making a name for himself in the underground industrial/electronic music scene, but not primarily as a musician. Sure enough, the man has released his debut album as Iammynewt, a collaboration with fellow artist Skullduggery, titled Ohaka, which features the two artists' wide range of glitch-laden experimentalism and breakbeat-driven industrial noise. Not only that, but Iammynewt's music has appeared in a number of compilations from Underground, Inc.'s Notes from Thee Real Underground to Glitch Mode Recordings' Hordes of the Elite and DarkSonus, Vol. 1, bringing his eclectic style to a scene in need of some new heroes to call their own. However, where Cozort's skills truly shine are in his production and mastering, working with such groups as Pigface, Cyanotic, Empty, and Lucidstatic to name but a few, as well as mastering the sampler compilation from Arable Farmland, all culminating in the establishment of Trozoc Productions, an imprint through which Cozort makes his skills behind the mixing desk available to the new generation of up-and-coming artists looking for professional sound quality in the laptop age. INTERVIEW You've just released your debut album with Skullduggery. How did your collaboration with Skullduggery first come about, and what was it like to be working with him? Cozort: At the time, I was staying in the mountains, and he contacted me through MySpace, I believe. We started talking a lot, and he kept sending me demo songs, and I thought he had a lot of potential. I had some material that I had been working on that I didn't want to use for Iammynewt because it was a little too experimental. I would send those tracks to him, and he would add to them via the Internet, back and forth, and I was liking what I was hearing when he'd send them back. After we got about three or four songs started up over the Internet, he came up to the mountains and partied, and from then on, it was just back and forth from my studio to his studio, from my bedroom to his bedroom. Eventually, when I felt all the songs were finally completed, I talked to him about releasing it digitally to see how it would do. He agreed, and that is how it came to be mastered by me in the end. We put it out, and it's been doing pretty well. Because, you've worked with groups like Cyanotic and Empty and a plethora of others primarily through the Internet, how do you find that working in the digital realm compares to working with people in person, and how has it has been a benefit to your methods of production? Cozort: Working with people electronically through the internet and mail—because sometimes they'll send me CD-Rs of Mac files or their session files on CD or DVD—but whenever they do that, it's more like they might give me a suggestion as to what they want their sound to sound like. With me, it's just me primarily mixing or processing or adding to their tracks, basically producing their tracks by taking what's on the demo and making it a final track; they have a lot more of my vibe included in it than most people would expect. When they get the product, they're like, 'Wow!' because it would be their vibe enhanced by what I've added, whereas if they would come into the studio and record with me, it would still have my vibe, but it would be influenced or affected by theirs more, and so it would have a different outcome. I prefer making music by any means than not. I don't like sitting around not making music for weeks. I'm always working on something. As far as the material on Ohaka, you'd said that it was more experimental and not would you would normally put under the Iammynewt name. How would you describe Iammynewt versus the material that you did for Ohaka? Is it necessarily more experimental than what you would normally do under that moniker? Cozort: Iammynewt would be a more minimalist pop, electro, dark, evil vibe that people can get lost into, and I have been going through a lot of anxiety at the time, so I wasn't actually working on Iammynewt. I was just making some really random and chaotic music, and I thought, 'Well, I have to do something with this.' It is Iammynewt, per se, but it's a very different side to it. When I brought it with Skullduggery, I was under the influence of anxiety drugs to help suppress some of it, but if you look at me, then you can tell that anxiety drugs don't work very well. You have worked with Cyanotic, whose new album is called The Medication Generation, so it's interesting that you bring up anxiety drugs. Will you be working on the new album with Cyanotic? Cozort: I don't know, really. We've been down for years, and there's no way that I wouldn't help him if he were to need assistance with that album, so he knows that I would be down for it. But there is no official word on if I'm mastering it or not; none of that has been said yet, but of course I would. One of the bigger names that you've been working with recently is Pigface. How did you first come to work with Pigface, and when can we expect to hear the fruits of that? Cozort: I've known Martin for years, and basically at the beginnings of Iammynewt, I had to choose a name for the Notes… compilations—it was right before the fifth Notes from Thee Real Underground compilation CD came out—when I had just started making music that I would consider to be Iammynewt style. They were darker tracks and I sent them to Martin, and he said he wanted to include them on that CD, so he did. I told him I had a full-length, I sent it to him, and he really, really liked it, but we couldn't come to an agreement. He really dug that full-length, but it hasn't been released for a number of reasons. I ended up asking him to play drums on some tracks from the unreleased debut, and he was ecstatic about it. He did two songs, but three renditions. So the debut, when it finally comes to light, should have one bonus track that he played drums on, and through that. Anytime he has a release that needs music for, he'll contact me, like on the tribute to the Ramones that he asked me to do a song for, and since there are no vocals in Iammynewt, I used text-to-speech for the vocals on that song, and it came out really well. There are so many, such as the Ritalin remix album, and I wasn't on that one, but I'm on a couple of Pigface remixes that he did. I'm on the Pigface 17 Ways to Suck remix album, and that's the latest thing I've done with them. I'm in talks with him now about other projects, but whether they come to fruition or not remains to be seen. You've done production and mastering work for a number of artists and compilations, so as your reputation as a producer is growing, what are the major differences that you find between working as a producer for other artists' music versus your own? Cozort: Usually, when I work on other people's stuff, I work on it to provide the best of my abilities and the key features and points as a producer to theirs, to the way they do their music and to where they're going with their sounds. I try to just build upon that and take the sounds to where it would be finished. I just like to take other people to where they want to go with their music. I definitely meet or beat their expectations, whereas when I do my own music, the only person I have to deal with is me. I have to look into a mirror and say, 'Is this what the song needs to sound like to me?' Some of the artists you work with are in a very different style than your own music; how do you manage to jump between the different sounds and styles and still find a signature for yourself? How do you reconcile all the different types of music that you work in? Cozort: Patience. [Laughs.] That, and I have a very good ear. That simple? Cozort: Well, no, it's not simple, but it's true. It takes a lot of patience when you're dealing with others and all of these different styles. There are all of these different elements to each genre, and I have to keep all of those in my head, but at the same time, these people come to me for my vibe, and I like to portray through their style so that if you hear a release that I've mastered, you will notice that the sound quality is very consistent. On that note, I understand that you're working on a compilation for the Trozoc label that you've started? Cozort: I am, and it's nearing completion. We're finalizing tracks, and it features some of the best music that you will be able to find on a compilation in the industrial/electronic/experimental or whatever scene. I can't name names just yet, but let's just say that there are good artists on it. They are some of the underground's best, no doubt, and there may be a few surprises. You've obviously heard a lot of the newer artists coming out right now. What are your thoughts on the state of the electronic and industrial music scene now in terms of what you've heard and worked with? Where do you think the genre or the style or the scene has yet to go? Cozort: I think the industrial scene has always been the same. People have added extra genre titles to describe industrial like 'glitch,' 'experimental,' 'jazz,' 'pop,' 'classical,' but it all comes back to industrial, and I thought that's what industrial meant. Back in the day, it was music that was not meant for the mainstream. It was a bunch of kids playing in industrial warehouses making music that nobody would listen to. That's my opinion. Is that a bad answer? But industrial music is going places. I'm taking it there! You watch! [Laughs.] What would you say is the next level? Cozort: Obviously, you can see even in the mainstream that CD sales are down big time. Bands that build up fan bases from the ground up and keep in touch with their fans and don't get rock star attitudes, if they choose their fans, they're going to keep their fans. Those fans, even if it's only 250 hardcore fans, that's how many CDs they're going to sell with every release. So as long as you maintain a good relationship and network with everybody and don't be a dick, you can make it in the electronic underground. That needs to be said. Cozort: And I had to be the guy to say it. As you mentioned that CD sales are down, Ohaka is a digital release. Despite the ongoing debate about sound quality, do you see releasing music digitally to be the future of distribution and selling music? Cozort: It already is. iTunes sold more music last year than any major record label. As far as the future goes, I foresee them stepping it up actually and producing high-definition audio files along with the new technology, so you'll no longer get 128 kbps or 192 kbps. You'll be getting the next generation 32-bit or 64-bit audio files from iTunes, so you'll actually have a better sounding product than that of a CD or a high-definition CD because they'll be able to produce that in the future as Internet speeds increase and the technology advances. That's what I think they're going to do, because that's the only thing that they can do. Keep pushing the edge, man! As for Ohaka, it's only been released digitally so far. Let's just say it is a digital album only, but it's at 320 kbps, and it's better quality than you'll find from other digital providers, and you're dealing directly with me as the artist, so every sale helps me. And it's better than CD quality, if I'm not mistaken, because CD quality is 128 kbps, and this is 320 kbps. I don't think just because it's a digital album that it will negatively affect it. People have been buying it and it's been getting good reviews. Ohaka is a digital album and it's selling well, and that speaks for itself. As you said, all the money made from sales goes to you since you're selling it digitally yourself, and that debate has been somewhat settled as more artists are establishing their own labels for just this purpose. On that note, you have Trozoc. Is it a label or just an imprint for your production work? Cozort: Trozoc is a production company for friends and friends to be that need help developing their sound, or for them to give to me to take it to the level I've already taken it to for them. It's not a record label, per se, but I will be releasing and co-releasing albums with bands. It's mostly just for the Iammynewt moniker and other projects that I'm involved in personally. What other projects or collaborations do you have going on right now along the lines of Ohaka? Cozort: Tympanik Audio recently signed Lucidstatic from Anchorage, Alaska, and I collaborated with him on a track for that new release. It's called Gravedigger, and I'm not sure of the release date, but that's my latest collaboration. I did some electronics for a song called 'Defiance,' at least I think it was called that, and that's also on Gravedigger. I also did a remix for them that will be on their remix album, but that has yet to be finalized. I recently did a remix for Empty that is coming out as a limited edition digipak, and I think the name of the song is 'Not Getting to You.' It's supposed to be released in winter as a single. I've been asked to do a Killing Joke tribute, but I haven't really talked to Martin about that because I've been so busy with the Ohaka album. Any final thoughts? Cozort: I would like to thank you and to tell all of those underground electronic artists trying to make it, don't let anybody tell you that you can't make it, because you can if you want to. The way to do it is through constant networking and building solid relationships. And go to Trozoc if you need mastering. Taken from Regen.
Sunday, July 13th, 2008
9:16 pm	Fabryka Review Of iammynewt vs. Skullduggery - Ohaka Ohaka |Trozoc, 2008, +++| 1. FlexFiT, 2. LILbob, 3. meteor, 4. shitMuppET, 5. Ohaka, 6. FOLDer, 7. hhuftd 2 Iammynewt is Chris Cozort. Skullduggery is Jayme Bass. Ohaka is click'n'cuts. Oh well, for the most part but not only. The album is filled up with arrangements based on 8bit music, trip hop, glitch and IDM. What you may find on the album? Very high quality production, mixing and mastering, lots of ambient backgrounds with stitches of modern electronic music. A variety of moods, dark, spooky and experimental atmospheres plus no needless sounds between the lines. Every time I hear such music I have a need for the visuals too, even clouds moving in the sky fast. So it would be cool if the next time the release of Iammynewt and Skullduggery was also enriched with artistic kind of videos or any wicked animations. If you need music for your visuals, performances, or have a need for a remix or two don't hesitate to contact both of the musicians via their Myspace profiles. (NINa) Find them at www.myspace.com/iammynewt || http://www.myspace.com/skullduggery