Rotwang

Also: nice name, Dedrapist.

Oh my. I've just noticed this:

Actually I believe that the version in the video is a Skazi track (in the same way that all his other shitty remixes of famous tracks are "Skazi tracks").

The album I suggested isn't much like his solo work, rather it's a live DJ set consisting largely of esoteric 45's. It has quite a few vocals, so I'm not sure why I find it good to work to; I think it strikes just the right balance of being fun enough to hold off boredom but not requiring enough attention that it stops me doing other things.

Among psybient, I can't think of anything better to work to than this. Among other stuff, I find this works surprisingly well.

Oh, ok.

Maybe give this a try? It's downtempo with some relatively fast bits (which tend to happen at the end of long tracks so can't be heard through the samples unfortunately). I'm in the process of writing a review.

Wow, nice cover.

There's one on discogs still that claims to be still sealed in its original shipping case. Costs more than I paid though (I'd been considering buying it for about a week, then another new one appeared today for less so I grabbed it).

Just ordered an allegedly unopened copy of the special edition for a slightly daft sum of money.

Cool sig.

What's it about?

I don't know whether this is what you're looking for, but there are some good vocals on tracks 4 - 6 of this (I didn't like them at first but they've really grown on me).

Nice video, thanks for sharing!

Polyphonia then. e: oh.

e: only my second listen but I'm rapidly coming to the conclusion that this is awesome.

Yes.

'nuff said

Well, yes; perhaps I should have written "it's still a natural progression from dark psytrance". On paper it has some of the defining characteristics of the genre, but I didn't mean to give the impression that it actually sounds like other darkpsy, because it doesn't. It sounds like something new (though you're right about the Highcosmos connection). Thanks! Love your new album, btw.

Huh. I just heard that he fell out.

Kindzadza - Insoluble (Osom Music) Press Release: So then. New Kindzadza album. Writing this review will be somewhat difficult for me, not least because (as some readers probably will have noticed) I'm something of a massive fanboy and will have a tough time keeping up the pretence of objectivity. But also because this is just not the sort of music that lends itself easily to written description, even more so than abstract electronic music generally. When trying to explain what a sequence of other-worldly noises sound like there's not much one can do but compare it to other sequences of other-worldly noises the reader may have already heard, and in this case nothing quite fits. Don't get me wrong, I'm not suggesting that this CD is some kind of quantum leap; it's full of recognisable elements of Kindzadza's earlier works as well as some obvious external influences, and it's still dark psytrance. But overall it doesn't fall into any existing templates or subsubgenres or current trends. Anyway, it's been a few weeks and nobody else has written a review yet, so I'll give it a shot. Tracks (click titles for Saiko Sounds sample): 1) Data Mining 7:37 The album kicks off with a pretty standard opening track. That's not to say it sounds like anything you've heard before (it doesn't), but it does do that opening track thing of letting the listener know what the rest of the album will sound like without really going anywhere, like the musical equivalent of a movie trailer. Many nice sounds to be heard but every time it seems like it's building up to something big it just kind of peters out. 2) Dreamcatcher 7:23 This one starts very nicely, and keeps driving forward with one of Kindzadza's trademark powerful basslines. Unfortunately the latter half of the track is dominated by some metallic-sounding buzzing noise of the sort that's been used a lot in darkpsy in recent years, and which is fairly horrible. KDD is, in my opinion, the absolute master of timbres, so it's a shame that he chose to go down this route, especially considering that he already did the same thing much better on Midnight's Shared Blossom. The weirdly emotional ending, on the other hand, is great. 3) Roza Vetrov 7:43 Here is where it starts to get rather good, and it's also here that the album offers a first glimpse of its more ambitious elements: as much as the genre relies on innovation, it's relatively rare for artists to experiment much with rhythm (that being more the domain of IDM), but this track features some novel ideas in this direction, and they actually work. It also has melodies. In fact there are quite a few melodies on the album, but not of the sort conventionally heard in, say, Goa trance. And they are never the driving force of a track, but are rather used as if they were just another voice among the many weird noises; I daresay the actual choice of notes used, rather than the impression they make as a whole, hardly seems important. 4) Chiba Showers 8:09 Chiba Showers takes the two features mentioned above, namely the experimental rhythms and strange, amodal melodies, and makes them more prominent. I was particularly pleased to hear some of the swaying kick drum patterns that made Enichkin's Beyond the Shadow of Doubt so fantastic make an appearance here. 5) Auroral Shake 8:44 This is awesome. As well as more rhythmic mindfuckery, this track also contains a fair few of the extended time-signature-destroying breaks that are now commonplace in darkpsy. But while I generally find them annoying in the hands of other artists, here they just make sense; rather than ruining the flow of the track, they instead form the very backbone of its long-term structure, which manages to almost completely metamorphose several times while still fitting together as a coherent whole. A particular highlight is shortly after half way through, at which point the track consists almost entirely of percussion. 6) Coctau Paradox 8:46 The beginning of Coctau Paradox prominently features a bizarre vocal sample which would sound more at home in the kind of neutered house music that might get played in a trendy hair salon. Otherwise, this is pretty much Insoluble-by-numbers; there are brief moments of brilliance, but for the most part it descends into rather aimless doodling with noises. 7) Singular Nagar 9:37 Another great one, this. Like Auroral Shake it comprises several distinct sections, although unlike that tune it segues between them without letting go of the underlying 4/4 beat. Above all I'd like to draw your attention to the beautiful ambient outro. Actually, several of the tracks end with really nice beatless passages; they're only short but they're head and shoulders above most psybient, which makes me think that Kindzadza could make a full downtempo album at some point. I don't expect it will happen, but it should. 8) Была Nebula 8:30 This track and the next are probably the most melody-driven pieces of the CD, bearing in mind that Kindzadza's melodies are made of altogether different stuff to most others. Here they consist largely of dense, high-pitched chords which are detuned to give them a very spacey, retro sci-fi vibe. 9) Xunami 8:46 I can't put my finger on why, but I find this the most accessible and immediate tune on the album; the sort a person can have on in the background without really paying attention, and it will still get under his skin and make him want to nod his head in time to the beat. After my first few listens its transparent appeal led me to fear that I would get bored of it quite quickly, but I was wrong - there's actually a whole load of interesting detail that only reveals itself upon closer inspection. Overall: As one should have come to expect, Insoluble is an album which tries to redefine what constitutes "psychedelic" and "trance". It succeeds. I find it more hit-and-miss than his last album, but the good parts (which is most of them) achieve what only the very best music manages; namely, it allows the listener to discover a new way to listen to music. If you're prepared to be challenged, buy this and listen with an open mind - you will be rewarded. Favourite Tracks: 3, 4, 5(!), 7(!), 9(!)