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Architect
I Went Out Shopping to Get Some Noise

As you can see, yesterday and today have been about catching up with Daniel Myer, the Belgian dude behind Haujobb and now the architect of Architect. I fell off the Haujobb wagon sometime around the release of Solutions for a Small Planet--I think it just got too poppy for me. And then I just ignored the rest of Myer's stuff, thinking I wouldn't like it anyway.

Mistake.

Architect is spectacular, deserving of its spot on the excellent Hymen label roster. This is inventive instrumental industrial IDM, by turns noisy and aggressive and melancholy and melodic. Piano and strings take the edge off harsh synthetic beats, and an underlying song-structure sensibility keeps the experimentation within limits.

If, like me, you've failed to keep up with Myer, go out shopping to get some noise.

Also today:

62:29 Instans, Common Ground
62:28 Splatter Squall, Transcendence
62:27 Various artists, Music for Films III