electroton
There's a new label in town and this is one you should beware of. It's called Electroton and listening to their most recent releases - which they sent to us in a bundle - they seem to reach out for the audience for whom Raster-Noton is a way of life.
After one pressed CD in 2007 by the German Martin Weiss - who is also the man behind Electroton - there were 4 releases available as download of which 1 was also released as CD-r. This all took place between 2007 and beginning of this year. As these releases weren't sent in the package we can only listen on the website to the obligatory samples. And you are all invited to do the same.
Early 2010 a decision was was made and the next four releases were all released on 3" CD-r in a clear mini-DVD casing. The artwork is the same for each of the 4 releases: A transparent inlay with only the most needed information. So not only musically it fits the Raster-Noton label, also when it comes to design it's going in that direction.
First of the four releases (ton006) is by the Israelians Ketem. The four tracks hardly take 10 minutes to finish and reminds of a mixture between Alva Noto (the structures) and Ryuji Ikeda (the sounds). The people behind Ketem are Darmock and Mise en Scene and listening to their solo projects it's hard to imagine the mix between the two could get so freaky (7.5)
Ton007 is incite/ whose name you might have heard through the Hands label. Admitted I am unfamiliar with the release on Hands, but the myspace page makes it obvious that they do know how to make danceable stuff. This release on Electroton is much more subdued and introvert, as if the emphasis here was on the sound instead of the structure / composition. I'ld be happy to hear the Hands release because 'iconicity' can't be graded below 8 out of 10 points.
The worldly power of music becomes obvious when the artist of ton008 turns out to be from the Ukraine. v4w.enko is more experimental and minimalistic then the prior two releases. Again Alva Noto comes to mind but I think with any release in this direction a comparison is obvious. Really well executed and good to hear this one has a longer playtime then the 10 minutes from Ketem. (7.5)
Finally Italy is presented through Poratz a.k.a. Patrizio Orsini. This is by far the most rhythmic from the four 3"s and it even carries the title 'Beat'. You can hear on his website that Patrizio works in more different styles, so the vocal samples on "Turntable" and "Drumma" aren't really surprising and the 303 styled bassline on "Tech prove" isn't either. But they seem to be completely out of order after listening to the earlier three CD-r's. Not bad at all, but a little bit normal in comparison to his labelmates. (6.5)
With an average of 7.4 over 4 releases Electroton is definitly a label to keep track of!
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