{"id":437,"date":"2010-06-04T09:58:26","date_gmt":"2010-06-04T07:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.horus.cz\/WordPress\/?p=437"},"modified":"2011-04-15T06:00:49","modified_gmt":"2011-04-15T04:00:49","slug":"a-review-from-hard-wired-january-2003","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.horus.cz\/WordPress\/?p=437","title":{"rendered":"A review from Hard Wired (January 2003)"},"content":{"rendered":"

A review from Hard Wired<\/em> (January 2003)<\/strong><\/p>\n

No expense has been spared with this limited release of 333 copies. The disk itself comes housed in a printed card cover and features 12 tracks in total, all exclusive to this release and mastered by Mika from This Morn\u2019 Omina. To accompany this disc comes a tidy A5 size booklet printed on good quality paper and dedicating a page to each artist with a picture and short (maybe a little too short) description.<\/p>\n

The opening page of the booklet states the compilations theme \u201cThis project explores magickal and scientifick patterns of chaos\u201d<\/em> with the passage \u201cHoly art Thou, Chaos, Chaos, Eternity, all contradictions in terms!\u201d <\/em>a quotation form Aleister Crowley\u2026<\/p>\n

Many of the artists present are new to me, but they all pretty much figure within the darkwave \/ ambient field. It\u2019s been particularly interesting to hear how they have portrayed their chaotic visions into musical form, though I must admit to walking away feeling somewhat baffled after trying to make sense of the reasoning\u2019s behind some of it.<\/p>\n

While the two opening tracks by Murderous Vision<\/strong> and Ah Cama-Sotz<\/strong> behold a mysterious flow of dark haunting airiness, Polygon<\/strong> deliver the colder Encoding White<\/em>, sustaining chilling atmospheres with icy droplet effects. Cotton Ferox<\/strong>\u2019s bizarre sound is very nu-age influenced on Revolt Against The Modern World<\/em> driven by bass lines, slow drumbeats and fazing electronics with spoken vocal and sampled dialogue. Sator Absentia & No Festival Of Light<\/strong> rely on dark fuzzy noise and spoken dialogue on Upside Down<\/em> and soon followed by the disturbing Frater<\/em> by 4th Sign Of The Apocalypse<\/strong>, a \u2018good witch \/ bad witch\u2019<\/em> spoken sample is repeated with dark gothic chanting and mashing synthetic effects making it quite an unnerving piece really.<\/p>\n

The tracks that really impress me the most are the peaceful On The Outside<\/em> by Ontario Blue<\/strong>, whose floating atmospheres and the gentle melody make it seem so blissful, likewise so too does This Morn\u2019 Omina<\/strong>, the labels biggest act with the gem Octarine II<\/em> surrounding you with their dark aura of electronics and enchanting tribal rhythms. One things for sure, this Belgian group has a fine ear for detail.<\/p>\n

We return to the dark side again with Dream Into Dust<\/strong> whose piece Field Of Night<\/em> incorporates more eerie atmospheres, strings and gloomy dead beats. The album closes with the French act O Quam Tristis<\/strong> and Simpliciter<\/em>, a dark electro Goth track with slow beats, strings, eastern atmospheres and drawn out vocals.<\/p>\n

This upcoming label from the Czech Republic should be worth keeping an eye on in future. In all, they\u2019ve provided a neat little product of a very limited run that is bound to quickly sell out. It will certainly raise some mixed views along the way, but those of you with a high regard for dark and tranquil atmospherics can certainly make a good home for this\u2026<\/p>\n

Rich Hobbs<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A review from Hard Wired (January 2003) No expense has been spared with this limited release of 333 copies. The disk itself comes housed in a printed card cover and features 12 tracks in total, all exclusive to this release and mastered by Mika from This Morn\u2019 Omina. To accompany this disc comes a tidy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127],"tags":[27],"class_list":["post-437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-va-chaos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.horus.cz\/WordPress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.horus.cz\/WordPress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.horus.cz\/WordPress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.horus.cz\/WordPress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.horus.cz\/WordPress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.horus.cz\/WordPress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.horus.cz\/WordPress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.horus.cz\/WordPress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.horus.cz\/WordPress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}