posted 10/05/2008 (Sun) @ 05:00 pm
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The Undiscovered Country #1
There’s a ton of great music out there, eager and waiting to be listened to, just like the artists that create it. Sometimes it’s hard to get to everyone… especially if they haven’t done so much as release a proper album yet.
Here are some up-and-comers and shiny jewels waiting out there to be discovered.
Tesseract
UK-based “TesseracT is an ambient, polymetric-metal solo project written by Acle Kahney.” Before 2007-08, Tesseract’s members collaborated via emailed parts on the Internet, and only recently recorded and toured together. Think Meshuggah, but more prog and infinitely more listenable. The guitar tones Acle is able to achieve are the real spotlight of this show. Out of this world. Better than almost anything at inducing head-banging, even if it happens to be in the fetal position with headphones squeezing and battering your skull.
As of this writing, their site streams their music upon page load.
In case you were wondering, a tesseract is a four-dimensional cube. It is also known as a hypercube. Tesseract the band are one example of how spamming Wikipedia to your own ends can sometimes pay off.
October
My Vitriol meets Trust Company in Canada. Canadian-based home recordist “J” achieves surprisingly good results with his modest setup of amp-sim guitars and bass paired with an admittedly flat-sounding electronic drum machine. The tunes are there for anyone who enjoys the introverted pop leanings of shoegaze’s more intelligible and poppy moments. Lots of spacey delay and rock muscle on tracks like the My Vitriol inspired instrumental “Existential.”
Adrian Bond
Although their noisy guitar pedals are reserved purely for rock anti-purists, Effector 13/Devi Ever have had a hand in popularizing the slick, trance-inducing majesty of Adrian Bond and his collection of electronic instruments. Bond’s “Truly Beautiful Disaster” is a demo of an E13 pedal, but achieves an identity and sonic resonance all its own.
“True synthesis” is an apt descriptive phrase here. Pulled Velcro, electric whalesong, the depressive sigh of an aged android… it’s all just the wholesale molestation of a self-oscillating fuzzbox, really, but the bottom line is, in the right hands, it creates some truly beautiful noise. Adrian Bond has talent as a noise-molder. Perhaps a review (poorly) translated from Japanese says it best:
The visual hallucination person of the wonder which appears from American & Maryland state, the Bond. Developing trance where unprecedented dark energy explodes which is programmed finely considerably high level.
Tags: indie, mini reviews, unsigned
1 comment on this article
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Tugs Says:
October 25th, 2009 at 4:30 pmJay creates some awsome music… I recommend you all hear it.
Tugs =)
