iGod – Fire In The Hole CD

From the depths of Cologne, Germany, arises K-Elektronischer Automatisten [ K·E·A ]. Improvised electronic music, made by people and machines, for machines and deep improvised people. Their fifth album, Verlorene Tonbänder: Maschinengefühle , is composed of 5 improvised and live recording pieces about the machines’ feelings.

Folded Buildings debut for The Sound of The Hum Records is a descent into the underbelly of a squat that happens to be a haunted discotheque at the point of collapse. Disjointed, skittering beats and barely audible hints of melody poke through the smoke and wait…is that the sound of the riot squad coming to chuck you into the diesel-choked patrol wagons? This is a staggering work of beat-driven experimentalism featuring wonky, broken electronic toys and drum machines that could explode at any minute. Utterly essential listening. Fans of Ekoplekz, Helm, Regis and Demdike Stare will find much to enjoy here. Rest assured, friends – there’s more to come.

goii (German Ocean 2) is the follow up to the Brighton post-ambient dronescape merchants’ eponymous debut. Where the first album took listeners to the cold deep seas, goii attempts to reach for the sky; the five tracks acting as an imagined map into a world of thinning oxygen and eerie silence, punctured by the external drones of engines, propellers, the rattle of mounted cannon and movements of air that sing their strange songs along to the inner voices, chants (or prayers?) of men and women experiencing the thrill and fear of altitudes their fleshy bodies were never meant to attain. The fields below are a patchwork quilt bounded by hedgerows and dotted with sheep, grazing without a care in the world or a single thought for the feats of bravery, love and bloodlust above.