Burial is definitely the next step of music evolution, labeled dubstep, his latest work Untrue has not much in common with this genre. It is poetry, it is life, it is imagination, it’s really hard to describe. The whole mood of the record is like Japanese ambient cyberpunk, with dusk megacity soundscapes, samurai training and biotechnology.
8bitpeoples.com is a website is one of the best representatives of modern independent music and RushJet1 is one of the best representatives of this site. This label is focusing on 8 bit and chiptune music, (music composed and played on old sound cards, for those who don’t know) naturally it is not very popular due to unusual sound. But for people like me who had an original gameboy, nes or an amiga this music is very touching.
When you fall in love with trip-hop you start roaming the stores for more and more. Only after discovering all the jazzy, deep, female-vocals etc. possible trip-hop you stop. And at this moment if you’ll decide to search for more you will have the possibility to stumble upon this beyond-trip-hop band fuelled by a good amount of klezmer.
Younnat is a solo project of the keyboardist from a local lounge band Luk. If you listen to Luk you’ll definitely hear some retro space influence. That actually comes from this guy.
In his first solo album he presented a fine cocktail of analog electronics, 8 bit and different non musical sounds. Matrix printers, real life electronic sounds are also a part of his sound archive. He mixes it a bit avant way but it is still listenable and you can definitely hear some old-school styled influences in his music.
Another thing is his live shows. That’s a WOW! A toy steering wheel that is reprogrammed and used as a DJ mixer. A joystick used in retro gaming themes based on old C64 sounds. Matrix printer with live keyboards, life of a house simulated with home electronics sounds. And finally a feature song with live girl singing opera vocals and sampling with a playstation joystick. I bet in few years he will be a number one guest on different GameCons. But now the world only has his debut album Ryba, which is also a great release on modern electronics scene.
One of the beautiful things about the modern post-rock ambient scene is that some of the bands are very close to modern neo-classic. Like Worrytrain with its last album “Fog Dance, My Moth Kingdom”, which is a wonderful piece of depressive melancholic neo classical music with experimental electronic influences.
Lots of strings and a piano build the carcass of this album. Professionally arranged and very dramatic, it is like Clint Mancell meeting School of Emotional Engineering with a twist of Danny Elfmans vision. The sound is very cinematic and even if you have no imagination the music is building for you great pictures. The whole mood is a dystopian noir movie street with some big steampunk machinery seen between the grey rooftops.
Each song is like a part of this movie. A chase, a mystery, a murder… the sound is a reflection of a lonely soul caught in blank mechanic society. Very similar to a recent noir movie La Antena. The track For Auschwitz is I think the best part of the album. Still the whole work is a very touching piece of music especially in modern music that has mostly lost its soul somewhere between labels and contracts.
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