Muttley (SubVersion) & nrvnet (The Hydrogen Cafe) present: Transference

Bitcrush - Epilogue In Waves

"Epilogue in Waves" is the third album from n5MD main-man Mike Cadoo's ever evolving Bitcrush moniker. The album is the soundtrack to a story which begins with a sense of hope, but whose undercurrents pull you to the end you feared. Epilogue in Waves marks the end of Cadoo's “wading in the ocean” thematic metaphor for lost time that constituted the backbone of his previous album, “In Distance.” As his self described “rock record,” the album eschews some of Cadoo's previous electronic methodologies for a more stripped-down songwriting style which utilizes only guitars, basses and drums. This experiment in the basics has led to a sonically rich release that still contains those warm musical crevices to find solace in. Epilogue in Waves will please fans of previous works by Bitcrush as well as neophytes to Cadoo's brand of emotional and sometimes epic songwriting.

Purchase: CD

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Original source link: "Best electronic LPs of 2008"

Broadway Project - In Finite

While Broadway Project records have never been happy clappy affairs, In Finite seems suffused with a quiet, implacabledread rather than the world-weary melancholy of Compassion or the personal psychodramas of The Vessel.Whatever, Berridge's mastery of the studio remains intact.The sources for his grainyassemblages are maybe less obvious this time round (I only spotted one recognisable sample), but they're put together with casual brilliance.

Whatever his methods, Berridge seems able to breathe life into sampled material in the way that few others can. He's a supreme collagist,teasing newemotionsfrom old, forgotten sounds, imagining a music which could never exist in real time but somehow does.But while countless others out there are doing the same kind of thing, Berridge's music still carries that ability to make you feel something. And that's worth seeking out.

Read: full review

Download: Broadway Project on eMusic

Broadway Project: MySpace

Porcupine Tree - Lightbulb Sun

Eighth album from experimental prog-rock act featuring Steven Wilson (No Man). 10 tracks, 3 of which feature the stunning string arrangements of Dave Gregory of XTC, includes the singles '4 Chords That Made A Million' and 'Shesmovedon'. 2000 release. Standard jewel case.

Purchase: CD

Youtube: video

Porcupine Tree: MySpace

Andrey Kiritchenko - Misterrious

'Let Oneself In' opens proceedings with a handful of spaced out, floating chords, while homely incidental sounds emerge from the backdrop as if someone's tidying up after a party.

Purchase: Mp3 release

Andrey Kiritchenko: MySpace

Andrey Kiritchenko: discography

The Radio Dept. - Pet Grief

An unspeakably lovely sophomore album this, Malmo-based electropoppers The Radio Dept. have finally got Pet Grief released in the UK after already achieving no small amount of success with it in their native Sweden and the rest of Europe. Clearly basing their sound on a love of My Bloody Valentine and the Pet Shop Boys, tracks like 'A Window' 'Every Time' and 'What Will Give?' ooze an effortless fuzzed-out pop grandeur. While The Radio Dept. occupy similar territory to Junior Boys and compatriots The Knife, these don't sound specifically like electronic pop songs. They're characterised by that combination of wafer-thin, distorted guitar rasp with deadpan echo chamber vocals that keeps cropping up in underground Europop nowadays. And that's no bad thing really - it just conjures comparisons to classic '90s indie, specifically Loveless-era Kevin Shields. A particularly impressive addition to the current trend for shoegaze revisionism, The Radio Dept. might just have made a record whose appeal will long outlive the fad.

Purchase: CD

The Radio Dept.: MySpace

The Radio Dept.: discography

Amusement Parks On Fire - Out Of The Angeles

Journalists are lazy. Amusement Parks on Fire have already been branded a "shoegazer" band, and this isn't great news for those of us who remember how aimless and boring many shoegazer bands were.

"Ah yes," you say, "but there were some good bits!". Indeed there were. Ride's "Going Blank Again". Catherine Wheel's vitriolic "Happy Days" album. The simply awesome "A change is gonna come" on Swervedriver's Mezcal Head LP. And if you collected ten of those very best bits together, and then added a healthy dose of "Siamese Dream", the first Amplifier album, and maybe a touch of the Cooper Temple Clause, you still wouldn't have an album anywhere NEAR as good as this.

Put simply, it rocks. This is a truly beautiful noise. Buy it.

Purchase: CD

Amusement Parks On Fire: MySpace

Radiohead - OK Computer [Collectors Edition 2CD]

For anyone liking OK Computer and wondering if the extra CD is worth it: The music collected from contemporary EPs is very good, not quite as great as the original album, but very enjoyable.

Purchase: CD

Radiohead: MySpace

Radiohead: discography

The Caretaker - Persistent Repetition Of Phrases

At long last, having originally surfaced on CD via the Install label, this genre-defining hauntological masterpiece gets a long overdue digital release. Although this album invites aesthetic comparisons to works by the likes of Philip Jeck, William Basinski and Janek Schaefer - draped as it is in an obfuscating, soupy crackle - there's a very specific conceptual agenda at work here. Part of 'Persistent Repetition Of Phrases' success comes from the attention it pays to the function of 'the loop', not only as a narrative ordering system in modern music, but as a means by which the brain itself recalls and interprets information; it's as old as recorded sound itself, but in this context the repetition of small shards of auditory information becomes an elegy to fading memory and the worn-out synapses of old age.

The track titles offer signposts through Kirby's labyrinth of faulty remembrances, pointing their way towards the peculiarities dictating the manner by which the mind stores and attempts to recover information: 'Lacunar Amnesia' references a condition that leaves a specific event absent from the sufferer's melody, and Kirby's music sounds suitably stuck on a prelude to something that never happens. Bathed in gusts of crackle, the piece gets stuck on what might be a start of something, but we never get to hear what. Many of the pieces refer to different ways the memory might find itself caught in a holding pattern: 'Von Restorff Effect', 'Rosy Retrospection' and the title track itself are all suggestive of re-living a single event or point in time - here, both music and memory are united by the notion of 'glitch', whereby a fault or fissure causes the replaying of the same pocket of data over and over again, but what distinguishes Kirby from so many other musicians operating within the field of loops and broken recordings is the unnerving, ghostly sentimentality that courses through this process.

'Long Term (remote)' is particularly explicit in its reaching back through the first half of the 20th century, exhuming snatches of music hall romance, now warped into a sinister new form by the erosions of time. It's like watching John Carpenter's The Fog only to find that instead of vengeful phantoms emerging from the mist, it's The Glenn Miller Band. More eerie still is the detachment from authorship endemic to this sound - at no point do you really sense the presence of a composer's hand; this album just... is. A remarkable thing that only seems to have improved with age, Persistent Repetition Of Phrases wears and fades just as the memory does.

Purchase: Mp3 release

Leyland Kirby: "Sadly, The Future Is No Longer What It Was: 3CD

The Caretaker: MySpace

Skare - Solstice City

Skare is the collaboration of Mathias Josefson (Moljebka Pvlse), Fredrik Olofsson and Per Åhlund. The members of Skare are all fascinated by the circulation of water, snow and ice. The metamorphosis from gas to floating liquid to snow to solid ice through freezing, the light reflecting from the snow and filtered through the ice as a prisma and - most of all - the sound of this ever ongoing circle.

Skare's first album, Solstice City, is an interpretation of a journey through a shifting landscape where the city meets nature. Departing from a distant and foreign shore, the traveller embarks a ship, uncertain of his destination. This prelude, introduced vividly in "To the other shore", releases this pilgrim to further explore yet unchartered territories. Leaving all man-made conventions, the second track "Through Wind and Broken Ice" takes us where the city imitates nature. Finally, a factory appears in the whiteout; a place where angels are manufactured as presented in the final track "The Snow Angel Factory"...The vehicles used by Skare on this journey are field recordings, found sounds and treated and manipulated instruments.

Purchase: CD

Glacial Movements: website

Infos: Skare's forthcoming album

Emma Cora - Emma Cora LP

Originally posted by archive.org

Metanoia Media is a new website dedicated to underground experimental electronic music. Ranging from IDM to industrial, ambient to noise, Metanoia's sound is as diverse as it is strange. We also have much in the way of non-audio content; from paintings to short stories & other multimedia. Please visit us @ http://www.metanoiamedia.com

Emma Cora: MySpace

Metanoia: MySpace

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Anyone still got this? Nrvnet's blog closed down in 2009.

I found this finally on a well archived backup disc in one of my disc crates. If anyone needs a link I can Dropbox.

Bump, the night's still young, you've got plenty of beauty sleep to catch up on love xx