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| recycle your ears Andrey Kiritchenko-00.00 (a suite of the midnight) Andrey Kiritchenko, the producive and hard working musician behind Nihil Est Excellence and Sidhartha, as well as behind the Nexsound label, presents here a new full length album, available for free to download from the Autoplate site. I know that I usually don't review mp3s, but here is a whole album, not just a collection of songs, and it is possible to get the whole thing on CDR (that is how I am listening to it). Glitchy and minimal, but full of very little details, breaks and dynamic blips, "00.00" is an album that sound clearly closer to this musician's works as Sidhartha than to his Nihil Est Excellence droney and ambient material. Incredibly well crafted and constantly full of effects, but precise and made of short sounds, this album takes the best out of the recent click'n'cut scene, but manages to stay interesting and not to get ultra abstract or boring after a couple of minutes. Always driven by a heavy but short beat, this album is full of very little glitchs and melodic lines. The sounds are extremely dynamic and precise. No hissing at all and a great recording quality allow the listener to fully enjoy the music on this CDR, mp3s or not mp3s. Directly in the vein of the Mitek / Bip Hop/ Mille Plateaux material, Andrey Kiritchenko has acquired a obvious maturity with his glitchy music, even more than with his more ambient material. I am amazed that he still hasn't get picked up by one of the aforementionned label, since "00.00" is definitely at least as good (and often better) as what they release. Very innovative, but really efficient and neither too long, too repetitive nor too exeperimental, here is once again an album that I will cherish, following the excellent "Mouse clicking" one. Whatever you might think of calm, clicky and bleepy music, do yourself a favor and check out something by Andrey Kiritchenko, may it be this or the Sidhartha albums. They are really among the best of the breed for that type of music. Plus, this one is free, so there is really no reason at all to be picky. Nicolas, July 3rd , 2002 |
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