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Psykkle - Mother Monoxide (CRL Studios)

"Mother Monoxide" stands as a turning point for Psykkle. Over the last few years I have been keeping tabs on our good Edmontonian freinds Psykkle and watched as mastermind Evan Collingwood shaped the project from a aggrotech background into the atmospheric reality glitch it has become today. 

After the "In the City of Nodes" Single/remix disk and "Back to Paradise: B-Sides and Rarities" releases, it was easy to see that the project was coming fully out of its shell. "Mother Monoxide" brings the tempo down and the clarity up. I was surprised by the quality of the sounds in this release. Swelling tempos and soft pads shape a cyberpunk take on what I can only imagine is a perverse futurescape. The vocals are heavily effected, but I do not think that the songs could be presented the same way if they were not. 

From the first track, "The Colony," it is very apparent that this is an album with a pretty large scope - not your average Aggro-dance-step-class release. I was also excited that there was not a purely dubstep influence in every track (personally I am tired of the dubstep bleed-over,) but that it was used conservatively and in a unique way.

This is definitely a release for people who like: Encephalon and Comaduster 

You can buy this release directly from the artist's Bandcamp Page

http://crlstudios.bandcamp.com/album/crasez-linf-me

écrasez l'infâme by Access to Arasaka

Strong break-infused IDM work from Access to Arasaka. If you're into Tympanik Audio then you will be aware of his name. IDM fell largely out of favour in the last 10 or so years (probably due to the UK's misc Bass movement) so its refreshing to hear a good IDM album.