Ghostly ambient electronica from more or less the exact point where sexiness meets cold pit of the stomach dread... Think HTRK reinterpreted by SPK and you've got a pretty good idea of what to expect here.
I believe the main guy behind Scala is (or was?) also involved with Seefeel and this other project called Locust whose "Truth is Born of Arguments" album is one of my all time favorites within the realms of left-field electronica.
Bummed to hear Klaus Schulze passed... I was a massive fan, and, although you probably wouldn't guess it from the music we make with Infestation Ritual, he was one of the very first electronic artists I actually kind of liked back when I was a pissed-off-at-the-entire-universe suburban teenager.
May his vibrations carry ever outward through space, and onward through time.
A swirling maelstrom of dissonant/ abstract black metal, dark ambient, drone doom, and noise being inexorably drawn toward the light-devouring maw of a supermassive black hole... I totally missed this album when it was released right at the ass end of last year, but I've been listening non-stop since I stumbled across it about a month ago.
Truly warped slab of outsider ambient/ industrial from eccentric christian doom maestro Paul Chain. I've been low level obsessed with this dude's music for about twenty-seven years now and this album might just be my favorite thing he's ever done, mostly because it makes me feel like I'm melting into the fucking floor.
Picture Tangerine Dream, Goblin, Bruce Haack, and Maurizio Bianchi teaming up to compose a soundtrack to an imaginary reboot of Cosmos that reconfigures the Carl Sagan classic into a pitch black nightmare of Lovecraftian cosmic-horror and you've got a reasonable idea of what's happening here.
Skeletal drum clatter ala This Heat or Finsternis era Aluk Todolo trudging its lonely way through a wasteland of carcinogenic industrial-ambience and scouring eruptions of cold grey noise.
Still on a wicked Teargas & Plateglass kick after posting about them yesterday... Perfect soundtrack for an excursion into the dark heart of some long abandoned city.
Slow crawling boom-bap rhythms meets creepazoid ambient synth and a palpable feeling of impending doom. Well worth digging into if you enjoy the darker, more ominous, side of hip hop.
