Italian’s dark outfit DISMAL will release their new album, 'Giostra di Vapore', onDecember 9, 2013 via Aural Music/Dreamcell11.
'Giostra di vapore' is the new gothic fairy tale by DISMAL. A band’s maturation leading to an evolution of the style introducing victorian steampunk atmospheres. Music which produced the mind’s theater between times of waltz and tango. The musical structure, as in Gothic architecture, plays on thin emotional balances between electronics and orchestrations. An introspective concept which blends the present, the ancient and the future. The effort will be available on cd and by digital download.
Italian Dark Ensemble DISMAL is back after 6 years of silence. After some line-up changes the band went into Punto.rec.studio in Turin, italy, to record their new album titled “Giostra di Vapore”. Mastermind and composer Bradac says:
“the new album will be the natural evolution of “Miele Dal Salice”, we recorded more than 50 minutes of dark emotional music, mixing classical passages and electronic sounds, with our usual eerie atmosphere. The Lyrical Concept is based on the “waltz of the mind” mixing Philosophy with Alchemy and Social Psychology”
IDM. Intelligent Dance Music. It might very well be the most loathed name for a musical genre ever. The name suggests rationally conceived music, or even music that contains no emotion. The two musicians behind Hydrus have a quite cerebral way of working alright. They program their own patches for electronic software and they love to work on their sounds endlessly. We were told they once tweaked the sound of a hi-hat for one whole week. Hydrus are obsessed with giving each of their sounds the room it needs, the right place in their music. They know how to isolate it or let the different sounds talk to each other. The end result is a graceful musical environment of their own.
On their early releases for Narrominded, their style was in line with IDM-icons like Plaid and Autechre. But Hydrus are slowly - it's almost ten years since their debut release, a split lp with Kettel - finding their own sound. On Nodes, they incorporate a tad of electronic jazz and deep dubby basses. Highlight is Micronaut, an emotional electronic track that goes straight to the heart. That's what Hydrus can do with technology.
October 29, 2013 Autechre will release their new EP on Warp Records. Titled L-Event, the EP follows Rob Brown and Sean Booth's 11th full lenth, Exai and 2011's 47 track collection EPs 1991-2002.
With a running time of 26 minutes and 2 seconds, L-Event will be available on CD and vinyl.
Both formats were designed in detailed packaging by longtime Warp collaborators The Designers Republic. The CDs are beautifully packaged in printed lancing pack (similar to sleeve used in Ae EP box sets) with foil block to cover and the 12" in disco bag sleeve (similar to Exai inner sleeves) printed with yellow pantone inside and out. Cover image printed in black metallic pantone.
Cervello Elettronico, another well established act since 2001, joins HANDS and presents his own brand of industrial-tinged techno on the 13 tracks of “Anima Meccanica” - an idiosyncratic blend of atmospheric backdrops, occasional distortion, tempting beats and apt quotations from electronic music history. The album glistens with polished production value and will prove a gadget suited for all intents and purposes in an electronic household.
The “electronic brain” is the brainchild of Los Angeles based producer David Christian, who has made himself a name with numerous live shows in North America and Europe at important festivals like Schlagstrom, Elektroanschlag.
Prolific remixes have been produced for the likes of Lenny Dee, Leæther Strip or Terrorfakt, and of course there have been well-received album releases on Crunch Pod and Rustblade. His tracks have made it into the playlists of Techno DJs like Adam X. On the HANDS map, “Anima Meccanica” puts Cervello Elettronico in the uncharted territory between the industrial dub techno of label stalwart Orphx and the distinctly technoid side of Nullvektor – with some electronica experimentation thrown in for good measure.
It’s of course the wet dream of every fan and even if it took a while, it’s now certain: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Extended Edition will be available as an extended edition and this from 13th November on. Of course this is the ideal warming up for the second film of the trilogy: The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug.
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Extended Edition will be available as a 5-disc Blu-ray 3D-set that contains the Blu-ray 3D and the Blu-ray version from the Extended Edition ; so that’ll be a 3-disc Blu-ray and a 5-disc DVD.
The Blu-ray 3D, Blu-ray and DVD all contain an upgraded Digital Copy.
The Extended Edition is also available as digital download from 23rd October on.
This brand new version not only contains 13 extra minutes, there’s also nine (!) hours included from brand new bonus material, so all fans can absolutely use the word 'precious'!
Synopsis: Bilbo Baggins is swept into a quest to reclaim the lost Dwarf Kingdom of Erebor from the fearsome dragon Smaug. Approached out of the blue by the wizard Gandalf the Grey, Bilbo finds himself joining a company of thirteen dwarves led by the legendary warrior, Thorin Oakenshield. Their journey will take them into the Wild; through treacherous lands swarming with Goblins and Orcs, deadly Wargs and Giant Spiders, Shapeshifters and Sorcerers. Although their goal lies to the East and the wastelands of the Lonely Mountain first they must escape the goblin tunnels, where Bilbo meets the creature that will change his life forever... Gollum. Here, alone with Gollum, on the shores of an underground lake, the unassuming Bilbo Baggins not only discovers depths of guile and courage that surprise even him, he also gains possession of Gollum's "precious" ring that holds unexpected and useful qualities... A simple, gold ring that is tied to the fate of all Middle-earth in ways Bilbo cannot begin to... (Source: IMDB)
