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 The multimedia / audio CD semema-industrial.net/comrades in lost ... was released on 24.05.04. Audio part is a compilation, and it is developed by: Barodarho, Claustrum, Devnoise, Knauzers, Traur Zot, 2ot. Track list: 01. Traur Zot - Kas tu esi? 02. Traur Zot - Comrades in lost... (with Claustrum) 03. Traur Zot - Mort port 04. Devnoise - Rising 05. Devnoise - Visions of Ipomoea 06. Devnoise - Merkabah (RT-32) 07. Claustrum - Sarez.e 08. Claustrum - Pogrebni (rudens lapas) 09. Claustrum - Polar plasma wave 10. 2ot - Subsensorais lauks 11. 2ot - prototips 12. Barodarho - Vara vairo varu 13. Knauzers - Naaves eenaa Comrades in Lost is the multimedia / audio CD, which is created with an aim to introduce people to latvian industrial music. Sound material presents each musician’s search in the field of industrial music, what comes from a personal belief and experience. Soundscape shows influences of martial industrial, power electronics and IDM, but can’t be placed in a frame of a particular style. The sound remains individual and satiated, with a touch of experiment, but not experimental. The multimedia is an artist's (Girts Korps) subjective perception of the industrial topic. It is developed as 3D acoustically visual space with gates and rooms, which can be navigated, creating impression of a real space. The CD contains the program with the modular structure, which includes feature of dynamic content update from the Internet website of Semema. After the activation, the program connects to Semema server to check any update availability - if there are any updates available, the program automatically downloads them and add to the existing base part. In such way the existing virtual space is being upgraded with the latest available content. In case there is no Internet connection available, the program will provide access only to the data available on the original CD. Screenshots from multimedia part: http://semema.org/comrades_in_lost.php This is a long-term project, which will be developed further on also after production of the CD. Multimedia part is compatible only with PC only. All Information about latest updates will be published on this web-site. If You are interested to have this CD, write to: audiogramma(at)radionaba.lv It is available on Autarkeia mailorder (www.autarkeia.org), Cold Meat Industry mailorder (http://www.coldmeat.se), Old Europa Cafe mailorder (http://oldeuropacafe.com), Steinklang Records mailorder (http://www.steinklang-records.at/), Ukranian Dark Syndicate (http://www.u-d-s.org). REVIEW Comrades in lost ... / Various Artists http://www.heathenharvest.com/article.php?story=20050922104002370 reviewed by: Malahki Thorn (Malahki Thorn) Comrades in Lost ‘Comrades in lost’ is a multimedia (!) compilation aiming to introduce people to the Latvian industrial community. A community I’d never heard from before, but definitely worth checking out more thoroughly after this splendid introduction. The CD part consists of music engineers such as Traur Zot (three tracks), Devnoise (three tracks), Claustrum (three tracks) 20t (two tracks) and Barodarho and Knauzers; both present with a single track. Traur Zot opens the compilation with a very dark and heavy track titled ‘Kas tu esi?’ I’m immediately warped into the time in which underground industrial was still interesting. Very powerful rumblings, distorted spoken-word samples, beatings and overall brooding menace are posed upon the listeners sad ears. Unsettling and rich in noise and structure. Akin to Folkstorm, Death Squad and Brighter Death Now, but with much more variation. Also Devnoise isn’t suitable to play during a picknick in the sun. Again, sounding like tearing all the illusory veils of happiness and light from the world, uncovering a brutal demon engine called civilisation. More influences from Haus Arafna and November Novelet are present in this angst-pop. Noisescapes are the foundation on which rhythmic, danceable tracks are build. Claustrum: damn, what is Claustrum? Again I’m stunned by the high quality of the noises, more nervous and sizzling, beating and evolving. For every track and every artist counts that they do not make noise, or dark-industrial or ambient exclusively. It’s all blended into a complex and exciting mixture. 2Ot is like a visitation to the mental ward where the listener is lobotomised with high pitched shrieks and penetrating electronic noises. It reminds me of the less harsh stuff made by the Italian Atrax Morgue. Still, it is just as unsettling and disturbing. This is also the case with Borodarho, although this project has a more varied and complex structure. With Knauzers we return to the genre of angst-pop. Very enjoyable and pleasantly frightening. Since I’m not a reviewer of graphic multimedia design, I’ll just give you the artists description of what is to be found on your pc when ‘Comrades in lost’ is inserted (if compatible of course, but most pc’s are): ‘The multimedia cd is an artist’s subjective perception of the industrial topic. The cd is developed as 3D acoustically visual space with gates and rooms, which can be navigated, creating impression of real space.’ One can enter these rooms and to do so is to trigger different noise sculptures. With an internet connection, updates are available. I hope I’m clear on this one: these guys from Latvia are creative, inspired and enthusiastic sound-artists, not to be ignored. reviewed by: JS Source: http://www.funprox.com/index.php/reviews/2005_08/va-comrades-in-lost/ Comrades in lost... Compilation (Latvian Industrial Community) From the frontier of a genre still forming, this compilation exhibits music from digital soundforms and audio environments recorded from life and daily experience. This style distinctly uses melody underneath the abrasive surface, resembling a continuation in hybrid of the works of Einsturzende Neubauten and Tangerine Dream. Much is literally noise, of two types: the organic type is sampled through the grain of microphones and then distorted, stretched or reshaped sonically; the other is soundwaves formed from directly manipulated electronic signals. Rhythmic pulsing and keyboards anchor each piece. Recorded voices flow above in disembodied purity. It is IDM from after debilitating global conflict; technology used organically. Starting the tracklist, Traur Zot mixes two keyboard voices (lead and bass) in low tones over pulsing loops of sonic events and sometimes digital percussion in minimal formation. This could be described as similar to late-model Autechre with an aversion to sounds of evident or discernibly "electronic" origin. Devnoise is a radio-familiar style directed by beats spelled in syncopated groups of organic-mechanical sounds forming a unit of time. Its sense of melody is friendlier and less austere than most. Claustrum start with the poppy "Sarez.e" but launch into dual-track assault of melancholy and violence, similar to Traur Zot with more frequent indulgence in sound derived outside recognizable musical instruments. 2ot bridges the gap with music that is pop in arrangement but constructed of abrasive textures. Barodarho interjects an assault of dopplerizing tone synchronizing to cycling rhythm, disorienting the listener for a collapse into noise, a directionless interlude. Knauzers finishes with a track darkly saturated in silences between foreboding bass synth and whispered vocals, with traces of a melody plucking at it from the void. Showing the intersection of this below-radar genre with recognizable industrial music, this compilation shows bands making compelling music from the sounds of technology. reviewed by: S.R. Prozak |
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