Title: Symbiont Underground
Artist: Lucidstatic
Genre: Electronic
Release Date: 28th June 2010
Label: Tympanik Audio
Album Review
‘Symbiont Underground’ isn’t simply a title. It’s the way the album has actually come into being with various underground electronic artists symbiotically working together through bits of sonic data to craft and refine a vast collection of tracks, compiled as a double CD. The collaboration to open the double album is a convergence with MANUFACTURA of wintry soundscapes, filtered through colliding sequences of humming bass and mesmerizing beat work of a simplistic beauty. ‘Noiz3Rush’ employs synthetic, adrenaline-fuelled break beats, wrapped in shades of glitch and creaking noise before washes of shadowy pads introduce ‘Viscera’, evoking waves from the subconscious, manifesting in the form of a distorted voice. The next one hasn’t gotten any title at all which is normally a sign for the listener to find an own name by delving into a song’s moods and rhythms, getting embraced by delicate guitars, ascending melancholy strings and blistering patterns. Listening to ‘The Awakening’ puts me in mind of that gritty tune ‘Evil Dub’ off the first TRENTEMÖLLER album. Influences must’ve been drawn from similar sources here on that minimalist piece of cold sonic imagery that unfolds best on a grey autumn day.
On ‘Book Of The Dead’ you’re digging through monstrous layers of distortion and relentlessly pounding beats under a sky of bleak emotions. ‘N.E.P’ balances a keen sense for haunting melodies and layers with a latent, subtle tension in the rhythmic department that is taking shape only in brief eruptions. ‘Misplaced’, closing up the first CD, is mingling short cut drum’n’bass with spoken-word vocals amidst a menacing atmosphere! ‘Opener of the second disc ‘Boneyard’ strips every bit of what resembles a melody off this track’s creepy build. If you think you’re hearing one it’s just a sustained soundscape touching on the blackest corners of your inner self while the unbridled harshness tears away at your flesh. ‘Re_volve’, featuring the talents of IMPURFEKT’s Aaron Russell, brings in the element of classical music in combing soulful piano lines and symphonic strings with Aaron’s demonic vocals while there’s a carousel of crunchy drums rotating underneath. A deep feeling of fright overcomes me when starting to listen to the choirs of anguish, echoing between the low-frequency gravitations and the trembling voice samples of a man on ‘According To Plan’. Without any doubt it belongs to the darkest stuff I’ve heard in a while. It’s playing with one of mankind’s strongest emotions.
‘Fractured’ comes with rhythmic force and intricacy created with subtle percussion just as forceful bass drum flowing away under too simple melodies for my tastes. The track closing up this collection is called ‘Fakt’ (Fact) with the wind of destruction blowing in, crossing the path of a furious beat. They eventually decide to go together, breeding fatal beats like detonations and ambience that infuses numbing cold. It is striking what can be achieved with artists of different backgrounds working together for a greater purpose, which in this case means creating a multi-faceted collection of music converging various styles but retaining a flawless cohesion.
Tracklist
CD 1
01. Burning Embers - 5:19
02. Noiz3Rush - 5:23
03. Viscera - 5:04
04. Dissection - 5:47
05. Untitled - 3:54
06. The Awakening - 4:58
07. Moments At A Cliff - 4:23
08. Book Of The Dead - 4:23
09. Perpetuate - 3:52
10. N.E.P. - 5:54
11. Desire To Be - 7:18
12. Misplaced - 5:25
CD 2
01. Boneyard - 5:18
02. Re_volve - 3:35
03. Invocation - 6:17
04. According To Plan - 4:59
05. A New Low - 4:10
06. A.L - 3:09
07. Headhunter - 4:56
08. Fractured - 3:27
09. We Created The Epidemic - 5:52
10. Little Human Puppets - 4:56
11. Fakt - 5:38
Line-Up
James Church in collaboration with various artists
Website
http://www.myspace.com/dbit
Cover Picture
Rating
Music: 8
Sound: 9
Extras: -
Total: 8.5 / 10
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