Flavor of the Week #45

Crystal Castles
soundcloud.com/crystal-castles/tracks
www.myspace.com/crystalcastles
www.crystalcastles.com 
( ;D --> Crystal Castles music is easily recognized by their heavy use of samples and distorted female vocals. Crystal Castles does not in fact use a modified keyboard with an Atari 5200 sound chip as an oscillator, as it is frequently claimed. Their musical style has been described as having "ferocious, asphyxiating sheets of warped two-dimensional Gameboy glitches and bruising drum bombast pierce [the] skull with sheer shrill force, burrowing deep into the brain like a fever")
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See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2010/05/crystal-castles-www.html
And:
barlemusic.blogspot.com/2009_02_01_archive.html

Delerium
www.delerium.ca
www.facebook.com/Delerium
www.twitter.com/delerium
( ;D --> Delerium is a band from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, formed in 1987, originally as a side project of the influential industrial music act, Front Line Assembly. Throughout the band’s history, their musical style has encompassed a broad range, including dark ethereal ambient trance, voiceless industrial soundscapes, and electronic pop music. Delerium has traditionally been a two-person project, but the only constant member throughout its history has been Bill Leeb. Leeb was a guest musician and early supporter of industrial dance pioneers Skinny Puppy, but after he left in 1986 he went on to create his own project, Front Line Assembly with collaborator Michael Balch. Later, the two worked on the side project Delerium and released their first album, Faces, Forms & Illusions. After Balch left both Front Line Assembly and Delerium, Leeb worked with Rhys Fulber, and the two released several albums under the Delerium moniker; these years saw a gradual stylistic change from darker ambient to a more danceable sound. After the release of Karma, Fulber left to pursue other interests, and Leeb teamed up with producer Chris Peterson to release Poem. 2003, however, saw the reunion of Leeb and Fulber for the release of Chimera, followed by Nuages du Monde in 2006. In contrast to Leeb and collaborators' other projects, Delerium has included several guest vocalists since the release of Semantic Spaces. These have included mostly women, such as Kristy Thirsk, Sarah McLachlan, Leigh Nash (of Sixpence None the Richer), Elsieanne Caplette (of Elsiane), Lisa Gerrard (sampled only), Jaël (of Swiss band Lunik), Camille Henderson, Nerina Pallot, Emily Haines (of Metric), Jacqui Hunt (of Single Gun Theory), Isabel Bayrakdarian and Shelley Harland. Other than Leeb, only two males have contributed vocals to a Delerium album: Matthew Sweet ("Daylight", on Poem) and Greg Froese ("Apparition", on Nuages du Monde); in addition, the noted griot Baaba Maal was sampled ("Awakenings, on "Spiritual Archives"). The Mediæval Bæbes provided the vocal track for, and starred in the video of, Aria; the vocals are an adapted version of the vocals from "All Turns to Yesterday" on the Bæbes' Worldes Blysse album. They are also featured on two tracks from Delerium's 2006 album, Nuages du Monde. Although it may be argued that Front Line Assembly has the largest cult following of all Leeb and associates projects, Delerium is undoubtedly the most financially successful. In addition to these two mainstays, related projects of the Leeb, Fulber, Peterson, Balch family include Equinox, Intermix, Noise Unit, Pro-Tech, and Synæsthesia, among others. In addition, in 2007 Leeb and Fulber collaborated with Leigh Nash under the name Fauxliage, also Rhys Fulber maintains his solo project Conjure One since his temporary exit from Delerium.)
Music Box Opera
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See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2008_09_01_archive.html
And:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2008/09/bomb-bass-www.html
And:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2007/11/flavor-of-week-47.html
And of cause:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2006_12_01_archive.html

labXIV
coredark.com/labxiv
soundcloud.com/labxiv
( ;D --> electronic band labXIV (laboratory fourteen). LabXIV ... appealed to ones predilection for forward thinking takes on classic synth tropes ... [they] deftly tread the line between the sterility of mid-eighties EBM and post-industrial and the melody and warmth of classic electropop ... the project is set to join their fellow artists in the burgeoning Los Angeles synth scene in the international spotlight.)
labXIV (12") mp3 edition
soundcloud.com/labxiv/sets/labxiv-12-mp3-edition
Without A Friend
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNmrvr8xwxI

How To Destroy Angel
www.myspace.com/howtodestroyangels
howtodestroyangels.com
( ;D --> How to Destroy Angels = Trent Reznor + Wife? Rumors have been swirling today that a new project called How to Destroy Angels is perhaps the collaboration between Trent Reznor and his wife, Mariqueen Maandig of West Indian Girl. Consequence of Sound received a cryptic email from a publicist that says a 6-track EP will be out this summer and it includes the URL for the "band" website. Though the site features little else but what could be the album art and an equally mysterious 40-second video (below), the lady on the cover does resemble Mariqueen and the music bears all the sonic similarities to NIN's Year Zero. If anything, Reznor's stated in the past that he is a fan of Coil and How to Destroy Angels is one of said band's earliest, best releases.)
An Omen EP
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Keep it together
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Keep it together
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qXuqqIseU0
See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2010_04_01_archive.html

C/∆/T
soundcloud.com/corvxdetimor
www.riseofthenightterror.com/
( ;D --> After a 13 year run in the industrial / EBM realm, Arp took a year off to focus on other music. During that year his recordings started taking a darker turn and eventually evolved into what is now known as Corvx de Timor. Decidedly more reliant on Arp’s beginnings in experimental and dark ambient music, Corvx de Timor also takes influence from post-witch house aesthetics and Arp’s love of underground hip-hop.)
Rise of the Night Terror
www.riseofthenightterror.com/
phantasmadisques.bigcartel.com/product/pre-order-pd-061-c-t-rise-of-the-night-terror-cdr  
open.spotify.com/album/4BCax3eNekFMmcmG5qgOPZ


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