ESOTERIC 8-BIT | BlowUp review

ESOTERIC 8-BIT The Student – DJ Dancing – MC Shell8bit

The musical-literary work of the eclectic DJ Balli, closely related to counter-cultural / conspiracy themes and the evolution of the electronic breakcore, is enriched with a new chapter in some way related to the recent 10 ” Spartmented with Amphibian, in which they revisited The experiments with Luigi Galvani’s electricity on frogs, but also to his fictionalized history of Frankenstein Goes To Holocaust sound mash-up, with the search for a prometheic creation generated by the (plunderphonic) revitalization of ” deceased sounds.

In this case, historical reference figure is Giovanni Aldini (1762-1834), a Bolognese physicist who studied, just like in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the possibility to revive bodies via electricity. Mixing satire, lo-fi and paranormal micro-electronics, Dalli assumes to summon Aldini’s spirit thanks to a series of 17 mediagenic sessions propitiated by the 8-bit sounds of three different Game Boy.

Performed in an art gallery and broadcast live on web radio, these evocations have now been collected by Urbsounds [/] of Bratislava on cd, in a booklet with texts and photos of the experiments. To try in the bizarre enterprise with the vintage or atmospheric sounds of their “Game Boy esoteric” are, in addition to Balli, Samuele Maoloni aka L ‘ Allevo and Francesco Fusaro aka Shell8bit, a narrative voice of this bislac experience in which the textual element has often the upper hand. (7/8) Vittore Baroni. Thanks for the nice review. Originally published in Itallian Blow Up magazine, April 2020 issue.

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Janitor In A Drum by SoundProjector

Dead Janitor’s Medusa LP

is a fair-enough slab of electronica with beats…creator Brano Findrik is the Slovakian creator who also records as Sound Sleep, and this may be his first-ever foray on vinyl after a number of file-based releases for Exitab and Strefa Szarej Records, not counting his 2008 debut The Boring Structure which he self-released on CDR to give to friends. The Medusa title is intended to express something about “hostility…in contemporary politics and culture”, which to my mind is a rather narrow interpretation of everyone’s favorite Gorgon from classical history and her profound mythical significance. There’s been many rich and fascinating readings of the Medusa myth, including subtle psychological and feminist retellings, that it seems quite pedestrian to nail her down as simply “hostile”. Oh well. Dead Janitor’s music promises a certain amount of violence – he’s trying to do something about putting rhythm before melody, playing hob with samples, and setting his breakbeats loose at dangerous speeds. However, this limp and mediocre music doesn’t live up to that promise, and most of the tracks here run out of steam before they even get started. Sounds competent enough on the surface, but Findrik needs to find a way to better channel his energy, and arrange his ideas into a coherent order. From 27 June 2019.

The review was written by Ed Pinsent for The Sound Projector.

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Kragrowargkomn – TMA | [ / ] no.48

We are excited to work on the new album TMA by Kragrowargkomn.

“TMA” – darkness, gloom, void…

As such, darkness does not exist — it is merely a lack or absence of light. Abstract phenomena such as darkness or void are here and known to us, but we can never really perceive them.
Where there is an absence of harmony, euthymia, and melody, there is plenty of space for creeping doom rumbling, industrial bustle, and black metal dissonance turning music into a rough noise mass.

Tracks

01 Tma [field recording by Murmer]
02 Ruch
03 Spad
04 Tlak [feat. El Muflono]
05 Hmyzy [feat. El Muflono]
06 Hluk [live in Tinta Social (HU) 2018]

Release Credits

All tracks composed and recorded
by Kragrowargkomn + featured artists
soundcloud.com/kragrowargkomn

All tracks recorded in Room420 / Bratislava / Slovakia
except track 06 ‘Hluk’ – recorded live in ‘Tinta Social’

Field recordings in tracks 01 and 05 by Murmer
www.murmerings.com

Mixing / Digital Mastering and
analog pre-master
by Kragrowargkomn && Rusty Wizzard Records
facebook.com/Rustywizzardrecords

Cover desing and photography : Elvis Fledermaus
facebook.com/michalmaros.mmphotography

The release is scheduled to be out on 28th March 2020 and the same day will happen the Urbsounds label night and TMA release party in a4 Bratislava.

TMA will be released as tape, CD in digipack and download/stream.

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Urbsounds label night and TMA release party [ C a n c e l e d ]

Hey Friends! Due to circumstances, we cancel the Urbsounds label night and TMA release party. We will announce the new date at the right time. The TMA is happening, and the album by Kragrowargkomn will be out on the 28th of March as planned.

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Loneliness And Deviancy reviewed by Italian blogs

Album Loneliness And Deviancy by Venta Protesix were reviewed by Italian blogs The New Noise and Kuwomba. Follow the links to read the reviews in the Italian language. Thanks.

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L’Allievo / Dj Balli / MC Shell8bit – The 8 bit Prometheus | [ / ] no. 47

Frankenstein, or the 8 bit Prometheus is DJ Balli’s latest sonic creature, released by Urbsounds in collaboration with MFZ Records. Stemming from the mashup book of the same name, published in Lisbon by Chilli Com Carne, the album is a tribute to the tradition of radio dramas. The music by L’Allievo (Samuele Maoloni, aka AcidZab) sets the tone for a wild ride through Mary Shelley’s masterpiece, as seen through the lenses of the most absurd electronic music underground.

NTS Radio’s Francesco Fusaro is the exotic Italian voice walking us through the music horrors caused by the Monster, a wretched mashup of incongruous music quotes, created the on-chip retro sound device by what critics think is the alter ego of Balli playing Game Boy solos on main tracks of this record. Speculations aside, Frankenstein, or the 8 bit Prometheus is a Bolognese-tasting tale of audio shenanigans that will oddly elicit your experiments with music seances and sound collages.

Ever taken part in a low-resolution seancè? All you need is a Game-Boy Classic equipped with LSDJ software, plug it via Game-Boy link cable to retro devices such as Nintendo’s Advance and Color. Hold the retro devices tight to create a circle. PLING! The renown Game Boy startup sound and following the voice of MC Shell8bit telling the tale of this different Frankenstein, the 8 bit Prometheus one.

L’Allievo / Dj Balli / MC Shell8bit – The 8 bit Prometheus

All music created and composed by Dj Balli + L’Allievo + MC Shell8bit.

All graphics and design by Tobia Maschio

Release date 28th of January 2020

Dj Balli – The 8 bit Prometheus

The 8 bit Prometheus is the new conceptual release by Dj Balli + L’Allievo + MC Shell8bi.

The format is CD in a very nice booklet. More info about the release is here.

Release date is 28th of January 2020.

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Urbsounds label night Zilina

Our next Urbsounds label night is hosted by Stanica Žilina-Záriečie. Party will happen on the 8th of November 2019. We invited a mixture of local artists. All skilled sound performers.

Urbsounds label night Zilina will be a great journey

Makkatu

will play his techno that echoes experimental powers, movement through beats, detailed listening, clustered sonic structures.

Dead Janitor

is the alter-ego for Slovak electronic technician Braňo Findrik. Over the past decade, he has steadily produced a series of digital releases leading to his debut Medusa LP for Urbsounds. With an arsenal of pixelated breakbeats and stuttering samples, Dead Janitor presents an adventurous form of polymetric electronica, echoing the complex IDM explorations of the pioneering work of Aphex Twin and Autechre.

Vrtačky po desáté hodině

is a project of Ľubomír Panák /drakh/ a Slovak programmer, photographer, musician, and sound artist, for experimental and noise music.
His electronic music pieces have appeared in collections Noize Conspiracy No. 9-13, he has been active in the Slovak experimental music scene also as a live dj and author of remixes and sets. He is a member of the Slovak electronic group Angakkut and plays bagpipes, fujara, flute and pipes in a folklore ensemble Gymnik. His photos depict mostly urban spaces and his (interactive) digital pieces use intermedial connections and computational possibilities.

Urbanfailure

Abstract ultra microsounds and discrete rhythm textures sonic puzzle that’s the live act Urbanfailure. rhythmic noise or lo-fi techno thrash is the best description of the sound that’s coming out of his hardware.
Cold and hypnotizing disco that will suck you in. Urbanfailure is a member of Slovakian Urbsounds Collective and Vermin party crew.

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Urbsounds label night and Loneliness and Deviancy release party

Our upcoming Urbsounds label night and Loneliness and Deviancy release party will happen on the 18th of October 2019 in a4/Bratislava. As usual, we invited a mixture of an international and local artist to make the night musically interesting and fun.

Loneliness and Deviancy release party

The strange laptop noiser from the South of Italy Venta Protesix will play and showcase his new album Loneliness and Deviancy coming out at the same day on purple vinyl and download.

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XFnX

XFnX’s long labyrinthic route through all kinds of music from original punk rock to electronics leads to a synthesis of all these experiments following absolutely no rules but arbitrary ones.

REMETEMEN

“Experimental electronic music scattered with industrial influences (and with many stylistic elements) from the bottom of the cellar, sometimes transform to breakbeat, old-school techno, jungle, etc… ” Necrogenesis industrial webzine

Hlukar

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Urbanfailure

Abstract ultra microsounds and discrete rhythm textures sonic puzzle that’s the live act Urbanfailure. rhythmic noise or lo-fi techno trash is the best description of the sound that’s coming out of his hardware.
Cold and hypnotizing disco that will suck you in. Urbanfailure is member of Slovakian Urbsounds Collective and Vermin party crew.