REVIEW: POP MUSIC FAVORITES

 

POP MUSIC FAVORITES (Ubus Records, 2001):

Track List: 1- Live Snowbox (XV Parowek), 2- Signal Failure (Maximal), 3- Kill To Radio (Sickness), 4- Parenchyma Na Koniu (Rare Parts), 5- Somebody Put Something in My Soma (Dischotic Symphony), 6- New Tribal Warning (Hated principles), 7- Backstreet´s Back (Andy Kisaragi), 8- The Drying Foetus Mimics Me 2 (Careplace), 9- The Boy Who Lay Down and Died/ Happy Birthday Mary Bell (13RXTNLE), 10- Right Out There (Dichotic Symphony), 11- Landscape Negative (K:V:T Clocking), 12- Squid Camera (E.Victor C.), 13- Scald (D.S.A:), 14 - 4Rhodes (Andy Kisaragi), 15- Martha Ann Johnson (Mantichora), 16- Shadow of Air (Cesium), 17- Full Body Contact Sports (Robert Warner), 18- Higher Than You (13RXTNLE), 19- Flux (Telesmata), 20- Ring of Fire (Dichotic Symphony), 21 - Akty (Zenial), 22- Profound Lack of You (Andy Kisaragi), 23- Wild Flower (13RXTNLE), 24 - A View of Modern Industry (Humanextermination Project).

Here we have 24 tracks of totally experimental music, going from ambient to electronic, to noise...every style is represented here. All this compiled by Robert Kasch, the man behind Telesmata and Ubus Recs. Here we have different kinds of experimentation. I will describe some of them. Most of you know telesmata from the reviews that I did of the latest works of this project: well Telesmata focalizes its experiemntationa round some instrument (like the weird Bullshit Grinder). Here there are bands and projects that depart fropm that. For example Maximal is an almost ambient project with interesting atmospheres and some experimentation within this calm context. Other band that surprised me is Sickness with its noisy and industrial sounds pouring all over the track. Rare Parts is an almost ambient band but with some elctronic touches that are the main experimental device on this track. Dichotic Symphony is one of the projects contained here which is closer to noise doing hasrh sounds and experimenting twisting them up to when they are almost chaotic. Favorite tracks: "Backstreet´s Back", " Full Body Contact Sports" and "Right Out there". Contact: http://homestead.com/ubus/main.html