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OVERDOSE KUNST Non-Form Material Machine (Postmoderncore) • Weirdorama, to say the least, of this half-hour EP from mysterious Japanese sources. Like The Blair Witch Project set to music, Non-Form Material Machine is as ectoplasmic as its title. Apparently this bunch (individual?) revere ongaku as fervently as the haunted film stock hastily affixed to the dusty crevasses of this work. “Medium’s Message” does a three-sixty away from the caterwauling muted noisefeasts of the opening track, a kind of twisted blues to accompany a tokyo chainsaw massacre. “Deemployed” is a ten minute bafflement of software-stressed existential dread, powered-down powerplant dub that’s been bitch-glitched across a shortwave dial, sounds the wails of seagulls skeet-shot out of a grey sky; then auralus interruptus occurs, in the ghost of John Fahey tickling away the twilight. “464” might be the number of Overdose Kunst’ bested beast―perhaps a Gorgon? Treading too close to an industrialized ambient Yes, its Steve Howe guitars finally devolve in the closing three minutes into some ghastly assemblage of banshee yells climbing like rising thermals upwards to infinity, finally lost in a morass of electronic distortion and heavy metal guitar scree: prog’s exquisite corpse resurrected via PanSonic? The label’s called Postmoderncore; tongue stumbles over cheek, yet the moniker befits the music to a tee. Beats me what it means, though. (DB) • http://usyugana.hp.infoseek.co.jp/ovk.shtml
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system of sound in nonequalibrium

Ambient music was developed initially with the main idea of relaxation and curing, however during few years it became the new level in abstract feelings, bringing a listener the ability to construct his own mind and thinking through the listening process. Most of such art works are rare to get and even buy, however there are many musicians that share their composing experience with no fee at all, and everybody could enjoy them just being connected to Internet. One of such musicians is Japanese construction specialist Ryu, which mostly surrounds himself with the hard-to-understand descriptions and bios, provides the only possibility to listen to his music through his own ears with no charge. "The Depressed" work, for example, is described as "a post sampling kinetic dissipative system of sound in nonequalibrium", however those who is familiar with the digital abstractionism, won't find it difficult to understand and get some fun. Released at the famous darkenist Nathan Larson's net-label "Darkwinter", it consists of four tracks in total, each of them is more than 10 minutes long journey into gloomy world of something like city sewerage, which reminds me the dryed brain of the fanatics looking for S.E.T.I. signals while being underground. Emotional part of the tracks follows the strange logics: it appears you are first following the submersion to nowhere constructed of microscopic humids and cut radio waves, then suddenly come to the hidden door which opens and scares you with the very bright, or maybe dark light - it depends on the mood you are currently in. Third track appears to be very calm and standing to the classic ambient works in "Biosphere" style, like giving the listener the fresh breath after a long sweaty running. Finally, the last 16-minutes long epos discovers the true about this album's heroes, which seems to be some japanese teens sitting on the closet and trying to imagine what is their life's problem: diffused japanese woman's voice is combined with the ice and still water particles we heard at the beginning, with the standalone melancholics from the third track, and it ends up with the perversed harmonics inherited from the second part. Not saying it will be a memorable record in your whole life, and as about the compositional part, it is created just from two or three changing notes; however it is an interesting work, full of unusual samples, textures and their combinations, coming worldwide straight from the enigmatic continent. Download link: