Review: Mr Machine Part 2 by Silicon Scally is a brilliant follow-up to the electro masterpiece's first volume from last year. The album features 12 tracks of complex and diverse soundscapes that showcase Carl Finlow's skill and creativity. The album takes the listener on a journey through a futuristic world of machines and technology, with a blend of electro, techno and sci-fi influences. Some of the highlights of the album are "Cryptotronix", a powerful and energetic tune that features a distorted vocal sample and a heavy bassline, while "Tachocline" is a deep and hypnotic tune showcasing the veteran's more experimental side, and "Manifest Image" provides a cinematic and atmospheric soundscape that closes the album with a sense of mystery and wonder.
Review: Garnering a name for himself with a stream of releases on labels like Cultivated Electronics and Central Processing Unit, Silicon Scally and his sound this time around is keeping a ghetto spirit alive within electro that's not too short of a wry, subtle humour. With its catchphrase titling, it's fun to imagine the sounds of this Skoda Banger EP come from nights out in a coupe whip, flexing the backstreets of Liverpool on a midnight blitz through city's badlands, clubs and underground. In Sci-Fi style, it's as if the bleepy synth lines in the title track represent a four-wheeled drift down main street, or something of a highway cruise control in "Mind Splitter". Banging EP.
Review: Following on the two previous instalments, the third volume in the From the Dark series sees Cultivated Electronics map out an uncompromising vision for modern electro. There's the acidic bounce of Morphology's "Sentinal", while the Cuban funk pioneer Alpha 606 lays down a stripped back sound on "Zombie King". While the compilation features respected artists like Carl Finlow - dropping brooding, bass-heavy heat on "Hive Mind" as Silicon Scally - and label owner Sync 24 teaming up with Joonam for the mysterious "Prada Thunder Cuns", this volume also features newcomers like Calderin, whose ferocious, filtered "Sudor" shows that electro's future is in safe hands.
Review: Dominance Electricity, the Germany based record label deliver a galactic mix of classic electro, bass and techno/breaks since 1996. The Global Surveyor various artist Electro space saga now goes into its fourth round with a collection of fresh, melodic, new school electrofunk and electronica tracks - collected from all around the globe. From the legendary Anthony Rother with the seething dystopia of "Matrix", the equally revered Carl Finlow aka Silicon Scally presenting some finely tuned offworld futurism as always on "Machine Bias" and underground heroes from way back Hardfloor - on the darkly breakneck futurism of "Diet Starts Monday". As promised there are newer talents, such as the Last Known Trajectory affilated Visonia: with the brooding darkwave seduction of "Nausicaa". This is a wonderfully curated compilation and highly recommended.
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