Various Artists - Emerging Organisms Vol.1

Disc one starts with two representatives of the dark ambient fraction. ARCHITRAV, a side project of Michael Belletz and Sebastian Schulz of MNEMONIC, presents dark, sub cooled atmospheres in combination with various samples which will send shivers down your spine. ERETSUA basically goes into the same direction but introduces subtle rhythmic patterns in its composition. REKT’s ‘Somebody Set up Us a Bomb’ seems to continue that dark ambient theme at first but while progressing incorporates distorted rhythm work. Daniel Myer’s ARCHITECT appears twice on the compilation with reworks of tracks from his most recent album ‘Lower Lip Interface’. Displacer’s remix of ‘Caine In The Brain’ gives its remix clear-cut break beats and adds a floating epic ambient texture while Dryft’s rework of ‘Stairway’ is fooling the listener at first, emphasizing on a newly created epic string section to show a different face as it progresses with harsh and noisy beats; first in a small doze to unleash its full force with a second strike of wall crushing beat mayhem. ‘Motion Sensor’ by DISTRAUB gives the ears a bit more rest in combing calm synth layers and piano lines with a glitchy and fast-paced beat. The awesome ‘Hidden Forms Remix’ of TZOLKIN’s ‘lmix’ is a rhythmic industrial track with a good portion of electronica and a repeating, crisp atmospheric theme while TOTAKEKE’s ‘Power of Ideas’ takes its title literally and is a constantly morphing entity with different rhythmic sections, infused samples and wide atmospheres. Disc One is closed by a rather surprising track of UNTERM RAD with howling guitars which makes it sound pretty much like an experimental industrial rock song.