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Yellow6 “Realisation”

Ambient, Post-rock, ,

Behind Yellow6 is Jon Attwood – British musician, who started in early ’80 in London punk groups. In ’90 he started to play alone in post-rock, ambient and drone stylistics.

On his website You can read paragraph which describes his tyle quite truly:

“Raised on punk, Jon Attwood has given up high-tempo, high energy three-chord anger and given himself over to a slow-motion, instrumental dreamland. Heavily reverbed, beautifully distorted guitars gracefully ascend, swoon and dip, freefall towards the earth, then catch themselves again, slowly tracing a complex and epic trail. The background is minimally constructed, often consisting of little more than some programmed beats and perhaps a bit of feedback. These all-instrumental compositions quietly arouse emptiness, void and the likeness of being.”

Photek “Modus Operandi”

Drum'n'bass, Electronica, ,

Many musical critics called Photek’s debut “Modus Operandi” the best and most important album of 1997 in electronic music. And there is something in it. This is compeletly different approach to drum’n’bass – more introvertic, conceptual and slower. Photek focused on detail. Each sound, drum or melody, every note can be heard here separate and as a part of the whole at one time.  And this “whole” is realy something, not as a summ of details, it is much more.

This album was ascribed also to electronica or even jazz. Some tracks can be not easy to listen for many, but eponymus  “Modus Operandi” is good for everyone.