Review: Wow, when we saw this we couldn't quite believe it as the legendary Kryptic Minds unleash an unexpected gift, remastering two of their original classics with a bit of a 2020 paintjob. Firstly, we hear 'Badman' get the newschool treatment, a groundbreaking original that combined gut busting sub basses with a grizzly mid range LFO synth to send dances into frenzies around the world. Next, 'Distant' receives a similar makeover, with this one focussing much more on intricate drum delays, unpredictable vocal influxes and subtle sub warbles. Two absolute classics, made even greater than before, courtesy of Osiris Music UK.
Review: Simon Shreeve's imprint serves up a killer split release that ripples with barely restrained menace. First up is label regular Overlook, with "Former Self", a spooky stepper that builds and builds to a darkly hypnotic high. Shreeve himself dons his M?nic pseudonym for the low-slung broken beats and clanging metallic percussion of "Stampede". He also teams up with Jan Grebenstein for "Cutting The Ties That Bind", a drawn out industrial jam. Remaining in this general field is Pessimist, who has released on Blackest Ever Black and Creme Organization. He delivers the death march dirge of "Indigo", which brings this wonderfully eerie release to a close.
Review: Adam Winchester's roaring output has taken the experimental scene by surprise. After all, there aren't too many UK artists who are delving into the darker, more deranged iterations of drone and noise. Appearing on the ever-impressive Osiris Music, Interferenza kicks off with the steely power electronics of "Surface", before dissipating out into the ether on "Terminal Transition", and the more mechanical "Resurrection Effects". "Figure Ground" bleeps and clicks to its own, oddly-balanced beat, and both "Blue Ghost Tunnel" and "Extant" duck deep down into the ambient quarters. What a masterful collection of sounds - highly recommended!
Review: Another week, another debut! Osiris Music proudly presents The Things They Left Behind, an enigmatic new artist (or collective of artists?) who likes their dubstep deep and overcooked. As a matter of fact, so do we. "Life Through Sepia" is a special sort of debut, a tune which takes the very best of the dubstep era and develops its own sort of dystopian view of it - pulsating shifts of bass wrap around twisted beats of all flavours. "68" looms large thanks to a subtle, shape-shifting glow of sonics which never quite seem to fold into shape. But that's what we love about it.
Review: For its 50th release, UK-based Osiris Music has rightly thought of landing with a fully-packed compilation from all corners of its vast and explorative catalogue. As a side note, it's important to say that this imprint, along with a few other key stables, has been responsible for the successful merging of the techno and dubstep worlds over the last 5 years. Ipman's broken, techno-leaning tool "Persistent Dread" is a great example of this early on, with peeps like Pessimist or MAnnic also providing some new and exciting flavours in the field. The one like Killawatt is also on duty here, bringing through some delightfully eerie industrial vibes, while Paul Mac, Sleeper, and Juno favourite Manni Dee deliver amuch needed 4/4 swing to liven the dance up. Fully-packed and loaded.
Review: Osiris Music boss Simon Shreeve is back under the Monic guise, after recent appearances for Tresor and Downwards: the latter being a similar label, aesthetically, and exploring the outer limits of modern industrial, techno and noise. On "Deep Summer", Shreeve has really found another dimension to his sound: going less for the jugular like his recently harsh textural abrasions. This sombre and bittersweet ambient journey is kept pace by subtle, reverb drenched beats and hypnotic waves of metallic noise: all the while accompanied by angelic vocal passages. And let's not ignore the elephant in the room here: yes, there is a remix by the one and only Burial. His rendition was not what we were expecting, but captivating as always. Let's just say that this ambient house odyssey is the perfect accompaniment to a Lynchian styled island dream.
Review: When taken in its proper context, Dot Product's whole output seems to have gone from good to excellent over the last year or two. For an artist who was primarily releasing bass-filtered dance experiments, this new and adventurous direction is an exciting steps forwards. This new album for Osiris, named after what we can only imagine to be the year 2080, is a vast and complex piece that never really strays into the dance territories while still retaining a very definite sense of movement and energy. It sounds like the sparse planes of Mad Max, and yet there's something very alluring about all those shards of noise and field recordings coming together onto the same planet. This is an ambitious electronic LP that should not be overlooked by the demanding left field party.
Review: Kristian Jabs aka PESSIMIST has, by now, racked up a rather impressive catalogue of dark, cerebral bass slayings, and we very much see him as a reliable source of new, forward-thinking club music to take us into the next decade. He's been considerably nomadic up until now, preferring to skip from label to label, and he makes his debut on Osiris with this new four-tracker, Pagans. The title tune is a creeper in every sense of the word, building up slowly and ominously, but also opting to deliver a menacing techno twist through subtly pulsating bleeps and beats; "Astrous" is comparatively more lively, but this is another slow-burning cascade of satanic dance music built for the most cavernous of rooms. "Inner Circle" chooses to unleash a more traditional techno formula, albeit surrounded by another sinister collection of skeletal sonics, leaving "Mist" to liquefy its technoid sounds into a grey-scaled pool of outsider sounds. Excellent.
Review: Not much is known of shadowy producers Dot Product, they hide behind the same veil of secrecy like most of the roster on Simon Shreeve's fledgling label. And that's all well and good so long as they're treading the same left hand path as others on the label, creating sinister and abrasive sound aesthetics. That they do and quite well. The album runs the whole gamut from chilling dark ambient soundscapes ("Ice Patches"/"Springs"), sinister sound design experiments ("Balloons"/"Animation") and even flat out power electronics like on "Atmosphere Processor" and the aptly titled "Extremis". Not for the faint of heart and handle with extreme caution!
Review: Killawatt continues his long relationship with Osiris with this remix release. Bringing together some of the most respected names in left field techno, the release starts with Tommy Four Seven's version of "Zizi". Chiming bells and rickety broken beats provide a hypnotic combination that creates a haunting, ghostly mood. Eomac takes a darker tune on "Spiral Swarm", where robust beats and tick tock percussion provides the basis for swirling textures. Monic's take on "Excessive Hyperbole" sees rugged broken beats underpin eerie textures. Finally, Mannic contributes his own track, and as its title suggests, "Untitled Textures" features mysterious sounds flowing over a rolling, off-beat rhythm.
Review: Osiris Music UK head honcho Simon Shreeve returns with some more of the same brutal slabs of noise he fast become renowned for. "Contort" channels the same vibe as its coincidental namesake, Samuel Kerridge, with its sludgy downbeat techno of relentless sub bass and sinister atmospherics. The body bashing broken beat of the affectionately titled "Flustercluck" is pure sonic ultraviolence, plain and simple. Lastly "Gutter" is an unashamedly sadistic soundtrack for BDSM clubs. Listen at your own peril.
Review: Matthew Watt aka Killawatt drops his debut LP on the UK's Osiris Music. Gnarly, psychedelic techno is the name of the game here, and there's a whopping twelve tracks up for grabs. Blending everything from UK bass to dubstep and even drone, Killawatt's particular brand of four-to-the-floor is both singular and caters to just about anyone whose into menacing beats and abstract sonics. We're particularly into the choppy beats on "Spinal Swarm" and the outsider techno rhythm that is "Excessive Hyperbole". This album is absolutely brimming with quality and singularity. More from Mr.Watt, please!
Review: Following releases on Black Sun Records and Candela Rising, promising UK techno producer Manni Dee gets seriously heavy on Simon Shreeve's (aka Kryptic Minds) Osiris Music. Manni Dee provides the label with three tracks, and the first, "Nicotine Kisses", is a rolling, but broken beat techno jam similar to Lucy's work before his Word Play For Working Bees album, while a bass rumbling but beatless "Man Is Free, Man Is Freedom" sounds similar to the cavernous sounds of Japanese duo Steven Porter. "Sister Nobody" is frenetic and beat down once again with Milton Bradley-like atmospheres only with a UK touch of sewer bass, while Monic (aka Simon Shreeve) throws down a syncopated remix that could also quite happily find a home on Perc Trax.
Review: Fresh from his appearance on Osiris's in-demand reissue "Habits", Monic rolls out a barrel of freshness with Donkey Kong proportions. Whether it's intended or not, the human patterns are evident in each track... The techno-flavoured "Blood Hound" pumps like a pre-fight heartbeat, all palpitating and turbo charged with nervous energy, the half-tempo flurries of "Blink" resemble an inquisitive human hand, exploring mysteries in the darkness while the human pattern in the slower, steadier "Viscous" can be likened to a cagey walk in an unknown neighbourhood at darkness. Finally we hit the title-track where the pattern is far less tangible; kickless and never endingly rising, the hazy, foggy pattern here is best compared to the strangest of dreams. Deep, undulating and full of techno science, Monic's served a delectably dark sonic tonic.
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