MIDNIGHT WAVE IMRE KISS FULL

Essentially it’s incredibly “funky”, if “funk” is taken to mean syncopation or a play on tension-and-resolution.

As the 10th release on The Death of Rave, it demonstrates the distance travelled since the early ’90s paradigm shift of original rave culture, effecting a radical recalibration of meter and tone conventions in electronic/dance music, and by turns, acutely probing our perception of time and space.

MIDNIGHT WAVE IMRE KISS FULL

As promised in the wake of Gábor’s acclaimed vinyl debut, ‘EP16’, the duo have colluded on a full set of ten tracks, ranging from short synapse bursts thru to an uncannily emotive 12 minute masterpiece on the closing side. Mark Fell and Gábor Lázár ratchet the game with their razor-sharp debut collaboration, ‘The Neurobiology of Moral Decision Making’.

Mark Fell + Gábor Lázár – The Neurobiology Of Moral Decision Making (The Death of Rave) The track titles, nevertheless, are almost cinematic, book-like. The music is abstract, with disorienting connotations. Harsh and brutal, unhindered noise without rhythmic compromises, interspersed with rapid moments of calm (not the good sort though, but more the harrowing calm before a cataclysm). They are based in Budapest and the trio makes improvised electronics, with no holds barred. Trauma is a mysterious project composed of Krisztián P., Erika Sz. Kokum – Impressions of Environment by Baba Vanga Vulnerable, fragile, but raw and commanding at the same time, the voice is at the centrepoint of Kokum’s artistic practice. Every track tells a story, using the voice as the instrument, with a relentless rhythmic backdrop. A ritualistic narrative inspired by his interest in “primitive ancient things” and his search for what is irredeemably lost. Kokum’s sound harks back to those times in musical history that cherished the primordial and the raw. A sonic portrait of an alienated moment in London, told using industrial visceral tools and visualised through the cutting figure of a lonely individual boarding the 5am night bus home. What has emerged is a body of crackling, warm ambient and techno with a vast, cinematic scope. Imre Kiss finally lands back on the Lobster Theremin mothership, this time with a reissue of his seminal tape album Midnight Wave.Ī seminal, bold and instantly nostalgic LP, Midnight Wave showcases Imre’s immense ability to craft vivid landscapes of ethereal sound, infused with layers and years of emotional content.Ĭulled from live-to-tape synth sessions in his once London abode, these tracks are the result of melancholic and restricted surroundings and trappings.

When the greyscale synths kick in they rupture this descending bleakness with a strange otherness. ‘Lacertid’ featuring label mate Imre Kiss starts with a rattling sound which could be recordings of rain rapidly falling onto windows. ‘On’s naked percussive patterns repeatedly fall over each other while the disorienting staccatos of ‘Onlon’ fade into the thick smoke soaked basements. As if trapped in locked groove or tape loop the whole EP drifts in a circular motion.

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