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One of the most important presences in British synth today, This Is The Bridge’s progressive, powerful synth is utterly distinctive and uncompromising in its vision. Every This Is The Bridge release on TONN Recordings brings us exquisite minimal synth delivered with poignancy and precision.
Here’s 25 tracks of collaborations with a dozen of artists including The Hacker, Adan & Ilse and Blind Delon. Digital Album [free download]
Finlay Shakespeare is a freak. With this, his second album for Editions he confirms this. As a one man band it often strikes the listener as bewildering that he can do all this; the programming sits firmly in the realms of genius, the constant punch of melody upon melody leaves a pleasant sting of surprise and as a lyric writer there’s a part of his moniker that seems apt. Solemnities is more gritty than his previous outings as a more raucous industrial edge is grafted on to his epic electronic pop leanings. Occupation launches proceedings as a snarling electro pop monster. Finlay’s vocals have never been delivered with such urgency. From here it’s one melodic banger followed by another as Shakespeare truly hones his voice and craft into something utterly of his own devising, despite, or as a result of, the specific world of electronic music he is referencing. Covering a wide range of emotional states, from anger to euphoria this is a wild complex dip into one man’s world perfectly crafted into an external release. She Says / Nothing Ends concludes proceedings with an anthem so bold it would be a worldwide hit if the world could be told. Find a comfortable position, turn Solemnities up loud and let Finlay take you on this startling spectacular trip.
Upside Down Smile was recorded and produced by Ewa Justka and by self-designed, self-made, selfselfself, odd looking slightly dysfunctional synthesisers and by a trance purple killer Roland JP8080 and by his brother virus and some other Roland brothers no sisters included during the time when Ewa Justka who currently lives in Glasgow, Govanhill, Allison street, where recently her passport was stolen due to the burglary, where she lives in joy, although sometimes the floor gets wet due to the leaking windows and sometimes one can find dead pigeons laying on the staircase but it’s nice and cosy and Ewa Justka highly influential person in the deep dark transistor ladder circuits lives since she is studying PhD at Edinburgh college of art where she thinks a lot about imitation in synthesiser design and filters and VCOs and formants and acid and hardcore music and twin t filters and operational amplifiers and she turns knobs and thinks and the upside down smile album was made in the depth of those thoughts quite often sad thoughts upside down smile is a bit of a cynical smile but an honest smile cynical but honest upside down smile is a smile through tears but tears of joy scottish joy upside down smile is upside down acid one could say upside down smile could be interpreted as a sad smile but it is a smile in the end of the day.
The third full length album and the most ambitious artistic output in Neon Lies’ / Goran Lautar’s discography is the result of one year making and relentless touring: a perfect blend of the minimalistic lo-fi darkwave sound of Neon Lies’ early stages – back when he was revisiting his teenage crush for early minimal synth punk and proto-industrial, and the second album, when he was more into exploring experimentation with repetition, noise, electro and up to date sounds and ideas from European underground dance floors. “Loveless Adventures” releases on multiple formats: Wave Tension Records, Cut Surface, Cosmic Brood and Black Verb Records teamed up for the 12” vinyl, while cd and tape are released on Periphylla and Mental Healing, respectively. |
