Hidden Forms Compilation Series Volume One

“Emerging Organisms”
(Tympanik Audio)

Two cd´s wrapped in a fresh modern design, 2 hours and 23 minutes, 29 tracks: a luxury debut for the young label from Illinois. “Emerging Organisms” is a real challenging (luckily) declaration of intents, it is a manifest that clearly shows the direction of the label, that is to say the full and enthusiastic immersion inside the adventurous trips of experimental electronica. A path marked by new as well as known projects, organisms that feed themselves of electronic music and emerge to give us their own vision of avant-garde. The sound spectrum covers a wide range of stylistic emissions, among a magnetic appeal and rhythmic inventions. From the cold obsessive and lyric ambient by Architrav, to the expressive narcotic sweetness by Urusai, who drapes his dreamy icy fragments with industrial drifts; from the euphoric and sharp touch of classic-soaked breakbeats from Talvekoidik, to the nocturnal idm by Justin Mcgrath. The tribal ethnic vein is filtered through the technologic circuits thanks to the remote and sensual middle eastern harmonies worked out by Flint Glass, who reinterprets the chapter of the Koran, The Overthrowing, from a digital point of view, while Tzolk´in lights up “Imix”, the first day name in the Maya calendar, with exotic tastes lightly touched by the sensual crescendo of technology. Under the “breaks” tag we can collect Displacer, who remixes the dramatic “Caine In The Brain” from Architect, overrunning it with broken beats and flashes of silence, and the melancholy hidden turmoil from S.Cage, a fragile creature twisting in the cutting yet flowing folds of broken industrial. Even though some tracks slow down the tension, the collection includes some little unmissable treasures. The brilliant contribution from Ginormous, a kind of synthetic progressive wrapped in a classical inspiration, and the unbelievable refinement from the duet between Ab Ovo and Flaque (project to keep an eye on, whose wonderful glitchy idm is confirmed on this release) who paints a three dimensional vision, a sensory fresco that can amplify every single sound into an infinite grandeur opening on wide emotional landscapes.

Tracklist

EO1
01 Architrav  Bewegungsspielraum
02 Eretsua  Proto-Awareness 
03 Rekt  Somebody Set Up Us The Bomb
04 Urusai  Slow Forward
05 Lucidstatic  Night Vision 
06 Architect  Caine In The Brain (Displacer Remix)
07 Distraub  Motion Sensor (Recalibrated)
08 Tzolk’in  Imix (Hidden Forms Remix) 
09 Totakeke  Power Of Ideas (Hidden Forms Mix)
10 Talvekoidik  Hymn 
11 S:cage  Unearth
12 Freeze Etch  Irrotator 
13 Architect  Stairway (Stairwell Sidearm Remix By Dryft)
14 Unterm Rad  On The Brink (Verge) (Remix By Dreams Are Maps)

EO2
01 Flint Glass  At Takwi
02 Ab Ovo vs. Flaque  Circle Of Memories
03 Stendeck  Like Falling Crystals (Disharmony Remix) 
04 Freeze Etch  Stalwart
05 Atomatik13  Traffic Lights
06 Hecq  Moonkissed
07 Ginormous  Part Of Him Died That Night
08 N0nplus  In Your Wake (Lying Right Next To Me Remix)
09 Phylum Sinter  Shadow Codex
10 Justin McGrath  The Last Thing You Said Was Fall
11 Displacer  Witching Hour
12 Flaque  Black Shadows In The Fog
13 Nebulo  Reverse (Remix)
14 Mnemonic Porous Dreams Featuring - Qasot 
15 Aural Narcoleptic

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