CDRX‘ new release is a double album of nocturnal soundscapes full of intringuing, whispering shadows. The first track is quite densely layered, while the 2nd one is a bit more minimalist – both are mixed in a very subtle way, with a great sense of detail. This is CDRX at his very best, if you don’t know his previous works, this one could be a good introduction.
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After having remixed Stillborn Ghosts’ “album Over & Out” (Stillborn Dub), Ayato continued to revisit works from the eg0cide staff. This time he completed an unfinished raw mix of Stillborn Blues in a quite surprising way. If someone had told me before that Stillborn Blues’ arythmical, lo-fi, melancolic guitars could be crossed with techno-dub influences, I would have been more than sceptical. Ayato didn’t tell us before – he just did it, in a very personal way, and the result sounds amazingly cohesive despite of its heterogeneous elements.
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Kirill Platonkin offers us a splendid album of deep and warm drones, using guitars (?) and field recordings. Very touching stuff, shifting subtly between serene contemplation and discreetly melancholic (to our ears) overtones.
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Chiss Ascendancy is already Sithwomb‘s 3rd release on eg0cide, and we find that this is his more achieved and powerful work so far – great minimal & spacey dark drones, inspired by the Star Wars universe.
Last summer, Kecap Tuyul visted Mescalibur for a live meeting after many on-line collaborations. They selected the best parts of their improvisation sessions to publish the second volume of Mescalibur’s “Lagrange’ sessions”, noisier and more agitated than the 1st volume (with tgbts), although also featuring some atmospheric / droney moments. A CD-R version with extended artwork will be available later from Entropique Production (Mescalibur’s label)
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Demagolka is one of the other projects of the person beyond Sithwomb (who has already 2 releases on eg0cide). Strenuus was self-released some time ago but we thought it deserves more exposure. Furthermore these raw & bleak minimalist soundscapes fit perfectly Eg0cide’s catalogue. For this occasion, it has been remastered by the artist, who defines the style of this album as “hollow drone”
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An anonymous collaborator of eg0cide has used unpublished tracks of vide flotté raide (and a few additional sounds (?)) to create a new piece. The original “dirty spoken words vs guitar noise” tracks have been turned into a single 24 min electroacoustic soundscape which kept the disturbed mood of the sound source, but in a more restrained and thoughtful way.
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New collaborative album between Ayato and Kecap Tuyul, when we talk about love and happiness , is rather hard to describe. Guitars (electric or acoustic, melodic or noisy, prepared or not) play an important role in it but are also joined by percussion, vinyls, electronic, etc… All tracks were mixed and mastered by Ayato during 2011, using raw guitar improvisations provided by Kecap Tuyul and a few sounds by other contributors : Anton Mobin, C-lya, Benoît Hixe, Poney Club, Mystified
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Sithwomb returns on eg0cide with a short album of hypnotic minimal drones that seem to come from another world.
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Description by the artist
Star Wars and Sith-themed project, each of the tracks serve as a soundtrack to scenes taken out from numerous Star Wars books, games, etc. “Valley of Golg” takes the listeners on a journey through a great valley where Sith Kings of the ancient Sith Empire lay buried. “In His Wake Life Dies” depicts a scene in which Visas Marr’s homeworld is destroyed by Darth Nihilus and she is the sole spared soul, accepted by the dreaded Sith Lord as his apprentice. In “Voidstar” listeners explore the prototype Sith battleship which went missing. “Wormholes, Free My Eyes” is about Luke Skywalker facing a deadly Force Storm created by the immense power of Emperor Palpatine in “Dark Empire 1: The Destiny of a Jedi
Composed, mixed and produced by Sithwomb
Special thanks to suonho, plagasul, planetjazzbass, ShortBusMusic and jovica
Note from the label : From darkness to renaissance is an epic soundtrack that needs to be listened as a whole to be fully appreciated. Tracks are quite contrasted (including synthetic melodic ambient, drone, percussive ethno-ambient) but the whole is very cohesive and thoughtfully assembled
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Introduction by the artists :
The first collaboration album of dark ambient project No-xygen (official myspace page : http://www.myspace.com/therealnoxygen) and multi-instrumentalist Mike Radice.
This album was conceived and created between 2010 and 2011 consisted by eight tracks, four by No-xygen and four by Mike Radice back to back.
The title represents the idea of destruction followed by rebirth. As it is in life, is about the struggle to overcome the obstacles of dark times and reborn through them.
The tracks of No-xygen symbolize in a manner the “darkness” part while the tracks of Mike Radice represent the “renaissance” part. The album tends to drag the listener to a journey of transition from darkness to renaissance
Personnel:
Tracks 1,3,5,7 by No-xygen
Music composed by Manos F.
Track 3 arranged by Thanos M.
Produced and mastered by Thanos M.
Tracks 2,4,6,8
Music composed by Mike Radice
Produced and mastered by Mike Radice
Artwork by No-xygen
Concept by No-xygen and Mike Radice
Eg0cide Productions 