Double
CD
Duration: 124 min.
Reviews
V2
Fabriksampler V4 (2CD package)
presents 20 different artists from around
the globe, an extensive work which focuses
on the combination of various forces,
delivering a corpus of surprisingly
uncanny sounds and audio experimentations,
ranging from dark ambient, noise and
drone features, with landscapes of shrewdly
resonant fluidities, soft and rough
textures of carefully selected and multi-layered
patterns of abstractly distortive sonorities,
with precise tuning to each other as
separate pieces, which, while still
very much diversified – and able
to maintain their singular difference
–, successfully function as an
unbroken strategical unit; and the thing
that connects them together, are those
crucial points, cross-sections, which
are produced only later, after the relation
between them is established retroactively,
measured by their structural difference,
that marks their own separate territory,
overall automated to operate as diversely-synthesized
unit/s – two that never is completely
different but also never becomes really
one.
KK NULL (Japan)
KK.Null is one of the top names in Japanese
noise music and in a larger context,
one of the great cult artists in experimental
rock. Starting his career in the early
80's by performing guitar improvisations
in the clubs and streets of Tokyo, he
continued by collaborating with Merzbow,
YBO2 and Absolut Null Punkt. In 1987,
he gained wider notoriety as the leader,
guitarist and singer of the trio Zeni
Geva. Zeni Geva reached world-wide fame
with their heavy and hypnotic sound,
eventually releasing three Steve Albini-produced
albums on Jello Biafra's Alternative
Tentacles label.
NEVEN
M. AGALMA (Slovenia)
Neven M. Agalma is an experimental artist
from Slovenia. With his music work,
he manages to explore different texturizations
of granular sounds, interwoven with
symphonic and atmospheric background
layers and abstractly emotional pieces.
His work subliminally tunes your brain
cells, adjusting them to the various
frequencies, folowing the line of IDM
and experimental electronica.
PHARMAKUSTIK
(Germany)
Since 2001 Siegmar Fricke characterizes
his musical universe as Pharmakustik:
audioclinical investigation; sound-research;
implantation and re-implanation of acoustic
fragments; exclusion of harmonies/melodies/traditional
song-structures; generation of completely
electronic and highly abstract tissues;
intermodulating soundpools related to
medical subjects; neurochemical ambiences;
formantmodulation of selected voice-particles,
bitcrushed fractures of rhythm; complex
combinations of plugins/modulators/effect-periphery.
YOSHIHIRO
KIKUCHI (Japan)
Yoshihiro Kikuchi is a Tokyo based artist
dealing with paintings, collages etc.,
besides various forms of experimental
sounds. He is a drummer and composer
of Japanese band Out Of The Unknown,
a member of Graves And Orchestra Pits
and Hölenmusik Ensemble. Also,
he has collaborated with American multi-media
artist Bryan Lewis Saunders, Argentine
experimental musician Anla Courtis (ex.REYNOLS).
In the near future, he will make collaborated
compositions with Kommissar Hjuler und
Frau/Mama Baer.
FRANCK
VIGROUX (France)
Franck Vigroux works in the fields of
electronic music, new media, composition
and improvisation. He is the founder
of d'Autres Cordes, a record label dedicated
to aventurous music. He has played in
hundreds of festivals and clubs in Europe
and Asia, and conducted improvisers
orchestras worldwide, he has been commissioned
by Ars Nova ensemble instrumental and
Radio France for compositions or radiophonic
work. He also presents audiovisual projects
and sound installations.
NOVA
DEVIATOR (Slovenia)
Luka Princic is a musician, sound designer
and media artist. He has participated
in a number of sound-music and multimedia
projects. In addition to publishing
web albums, he has been active in Ljudmila
and Kiberpipa and is the administrator
of skylined.org, an art-server/community.
As a sound designer and adviser, he
collaborates with artists, activists
and producers of festivals and conferences
at home and abroad. Most of his work
is based on hacker ethics and DIY philosophy.
CHRIS
WOOD (South Africa)
His South African roots inspire with
naturalistic influence seeping through
his sample but this Johannesburg native
isn’t a one trick pony. His nasty
breaks and dirty electronics are decidedly
urban and filthy. Urban beat-hop heads
will get violent over this one, which
while boasting plenty of eerie ambience
uncovers the underground art of weaving
breakbeats overtop of dubby basslines.
Perfect in every which way imaginable.
Pick it up and dance punkers.
MUTANT
BEATNIKS (United Kingdom)
Started in 1986 by Shaun Robert, as
one of the many projects he was undertaking
at the time, with the idea to produce
short form pieces of Music Concrete,
Noise Music with an edge towards outsider
pop and breakbeat. The name is derived
from the idea of future music, Mutant
as in transfigured and morphing developed
distance sounds; Music. And the kind
of music crazy modern beatniks will
listen to. So Mutant Beatniks describes
the music as well as the target audience.
NRYY
(Japan)
NRYY is a power-noise electronic project
of Norihito Kodama from Osaka. He runs
also his own label Silent Novels Records.
VELGE
NATURLIG (Portugal)
VelgeNaturlig is a Portuguese act based
upon spiritual, gnostic and primordial
hidden rites from sideral times. VelgeNaturlig
explores since the end of 199..s natural
and industrial soundscapes as well as
sonoplastic drones, using diverse analog
machinery, fields manipulation techniques
to (re)create aural and deep nature
representations.
ASTMA
(Russia)
Astma is an improv-collaboration duo
from Moscow, pairing drummer/vocalist
Olga Nosova from the Russian noise-core
scene and Russian industrial legend
Alexei Borisov, Astma is a drum and
guitar-torture act incorporating looped
electronics and disturbing improv vocal
performance. Alexei Borisov has developed
an impressively diverse body of work
as a member of the first Moscow new-wave
band The Center in the early 80s, and
other projects (Night Prospekt, F.R.U.I.T.S.,
Volga, Gosplan Trio) and numerous collaborations.
FABIO
ORSI (Italy)
Fabio Orsi is an electronic musician
from Taranto (Southern Italy) specialising
in atmospheric drone. Orsi’s music
originates with field recordings through
which he seeks to capture images in
sound inspired by the historic pre-war
folk recordings made by Alan Lomax.
Since his 2005 debut, Fabio Orsi has
consolidated his reputation as a key
figure of the international nu-folk
electronica underground with a bewildering
yet fascinating series of solo works
and collaborations dominated by psychedelically
flavoured soundscapes.
CEZARY
GAPIK (Poland)
Cezary Gapik started his musical activity
in 1980 as an animator of punk rock
bands. Soon enough he discovered new
sounds which were brought by the punk
rock rebellion. Plunging into the fundaments
of musical avant-garde, the appearance
of new creative possibilities together
with the works of artists like Mick
Harris, Illusion of Safety, etc. had
definitively shaped the musical direction
towards which Cezary Gapik follows.
His musical creation is based on drones
and micro-tonal sound planes interlaced
with abstract images (field recordings)
or computer-processed synthetic sounds
(glitch).
PRODVKT
(Italy)
Prodvkt is an ambient-experimental project
from Firenze, the tradition of death
obsessed electronics from Italy continues.
MIKE
BROWNING (United States)
Mike Browning has been involved in bands
such as Morbid Angel, Nocturnus, Incubus,
After Death and Acheron since the mid
80's, but usually as a drummer and vocalist.
His newest side project Inner Workings
takes on a whole new direction as he
uses keyboards to create alien soundscapes
unlike anything ever heard before.
MACU
(Austria)
MaCu is an Austrian based musician.
She started her musically activities
with studying piano and vocals. After
a certain period without doing any music
she began to play guitar. Soon MaCu
started to experiment with prepared
guitar and to generate music by using
fieldrecordings and processed sounds
of objects and vocals.