{"id":9624,"date":"2018-06-18T09:32:05","date_gmt":"2018-06-18T13:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/existest.org\/ee_v3\/?p=9624"},"modified":"2018-06-18T09:35:12","modified_gmt":"2018-06-18T13:35:12","slug":"silent-chaos-micro-cd-r","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/existest.org\/ee_v3\/?p=9624","title":{"rendered":"Silent Chaos – micro CD-r"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Silent Chaos – micro<\/b> CDr
\nBandcamp link<\/a><\/p>\n

Scottish dark-ambient outfit Silent Chaos<\/b> hurls five tracks of experimental dark-ambient and hopes listeners will be patient enough to see what sticks to the wall.<\/p>\n

There’s very little that coheres Silent Chaos<\/b>‘ meticulous filtering, EQ-ing, and general attention to detail to the concepts presented in the digipak. The first two tracks – “Odysseus’s Journey” and “Ab Orgenes” – plunge past the ten minute mark. Too much stuff is present. Grueling climbs, oscillating hisses, awkward percussion, resonant filtered crackles, and synth string stabs are stacked much too high; two different tracks sometimes seem to be playing simultaneously. Nothing gets to evolve. There is a lack of meaningful progression here. The sounds either linger around aimlessly or are shuffled out of the deck for new ones. “Insania” highlights micro<\/i>‘s flat percussion choice from an Ugo Vantini<\/b> collection, making the album feel even more throw-away.<\/p>\n

The wandering sound masses on micro<\/u> suggests the asynchronicity that can arise when two people are at the controls in dark-ambient. There is a lot more that should have been left on the cutting room floor here because the creative filtering and EQing details are lost. I don’t have the patience to endure 10 minute plus journeys that only occasionally warp and build only to wither away in a puzzling conclusion of stray-hair tones. micro<\/u> is in my opinion is a rehearsal, not an album. This is evident with their subsequent release Osclltr\/\/\/\/012<\/u>.<\/p>\n

Osclltr\/\/\/\/012<\/u> was just released in April and is a better representation of the duo’s artistic vision (and much better use of your time). The presentation of the sounds is way more effective at creating the climates micro<\/u> aspired to. They did away with the shitty percussion sample packs and refined the process of evolving their compositions. Go take a listen by clicking on this Osclltr\/\/\/\/012 bandcamp link<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Composition:<\/td>\n\"★\"\"★\"\"☆\"\"☆\"\"☆\"<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sounds:<\/td>\n\"★\"\"★\"\"½\"\"☆\"\"☆\"<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Production Quality:<\/td>\n\"★\"\"★\"\"★\"\"½\"\"☆\"<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Concept:<\/td>\n\"★\"\"★\"\"★\"\"☆\"\"☆\"<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Packaging:<\/td>\n\"★\"\"★\"\"½\"\"☆\"\"☆\"<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Overall Rating:<\/td>\n\"★\"\"★\"\"½\"\"☆\"\"☆\" <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Silent Chaos – micro CDr
\nBandcamp link
\nScottish dark-ambient outfit Silent Chaos hurls five tracks of experimental dark-ambient and hopes listeners will be patient enough to see what sticks to the wall.
\nThere’s very little that coheres Silent Chaos‘ meticulous filtering, EQ-ing, and general attention to detail to the concepts presented in the digipak. The first two tracks – “Odysseus’s Journey” and “Ab Orgenes” – plunge past the ten minute mark. Too much stuff is present. Grueling climbs, oscillating hisses, awkward percussion, resonant filtered crackles, and synth string stabs are stacked much too …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":490753,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,13],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-9624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","category-webzine","tag-dark-ambient"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/existest.org\/ee_v3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/existest.org\/ee_v3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/existest.org\/ee_v3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/existest.org\/ee_v3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/490753"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/existest.org\/ee_v3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9624"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/existest.org\/ee_v3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9658,"href":"http:\/\/existest.org\/ee_v3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9624\/revisions\/9658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/existest.org\/ee_v3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/existest.org\/ee_v3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/existest.org\/ee_v3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}