Be sure to download Click Point’s, “Aon Part 1″ for free.

A new review for Life Toward Twilight’s, I Swear By All The Flowers” is in the latest Steam Punk Magazine:

The simplest way to sell you on this CD is to tell you that it was created entirely of antique sources, sampling music boxes, and wax cylinders to great effect. The entire album is restrained, soft, and pretty. As atmosphere, it’s nearly perfect.

That said, there is not so much that is intensely beautiful about the album, nothing to really draw you in, nothing that will haunt you hours later (with the possible exception of “sunrise”, the final track, performed on a lovely out-of-tune piano). But while this is to say that the work is not a masterpiece, it is certainly well executed and well worth multiple listens.

Frankenstein, made in 1910 by Edison studios, is one of the oldest horror movies, though not one of the better known ones. According to this feature, all but one of the film’s copies were lost, and it resurfaced as late as the 1970s. Silent movies are usually supplied with a score from some stock music archive, but Daniel Tuttle, the man behind Life Toward Twilight, apparently wasn’t content with the versions of this film’s score that were out there. So, he set to composing his own. The project took some years too attain final form, but in 2008, the release was there, combining the original film with new score, and including a CD with more extended versions of the soundtrack compositions.

As can be expected, the approach is from the direction of dark ambient and industrial electronics, not a bad choice, even for a movie from a different period. The soundtrack combines simple piano melodies, synthesizer waves, drones and some quite heavy noises and percussive sounds here and there. The combination of film and score works very well, in particular in the part in the first half of the movie where Frankenstein conducts his experiment. The impressive stop-motion animation of the monster’s alchemical birth in the cauldron is accompanied by intense industrial ambient, both elements enhancing each other and forming the highlight of this release. After this climax, the pace of the movie slacks a bit, depicting the haunting of Frankenstein’s bridal night and the subsquent ‘dissolution’ of the monster in a less impressive way than the parts that came before.

All the same, this short film is a pleasure to watch, especially for historic reasons. In addition, the soundtrack adds a lot to the movie’s atmosphere, not in the least because the alternative (stock piano music) could be considered particularly gruesome (cf. [YouTube]). If you’re interested in old (horror) movies and post-industrial music, Edison’s Frankenstein is excellent value for money. And if you’re not convinced, and want to try before you buy, the soundtrack can be downloaded for free from the artist’s webpage.

Since the good ol’ days of Squarepusher’s jazzy idm breaks, laced with jungle flavored drill’n’bass, I’ve been nostalgic for that fading away sound. Even Venetian Snares modern-classical-meets-breakcore masterpiece, Rossz Csillag Alatt Született (Planet Mu, 2005), is now almost four years old. Has the genre put on an angrier mask and turned to gabber-heavy random-triggered mayhem? Where are those melodically driven themes complimented by intelligent macro programmed precision percussion? Or maybe I’m just not looking in the right places. Feel free to turn me in the right direction.

Imagine my surprise when I landed on BLÆRG. This Ohio (US) based producer is everything mentioned above and more! … ( Read More)

Also read the interview with BLÆRG.

Click Point, “Aon Part 1″

There are those who believe that there is another fabric of reality, that this fabric is populated by threads of consciousness that can reach out to us through sound, that if you listen, you can hear their messages through the static in your television set or radios. There are those who listen for and hear these souls and there are those who listen and hear the musicality of the ambient hum, clicks and drones you find there.

Aon part 1, the first release by Click Point, is a dynamic release with dark ambient and industrial influences for those of us who listen beyond the surface of sounds and hear what others do not.

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Nighttime Echoes

What sounds do you hear in the night? Do you ruminate on feelings of fear, of guilt, of anxiety galloping through your head, unheeding of your pleas to stop? Do you hear the throbbing of your heart beating and your breath as it escapes your body while you wonder if the next will come? Do you hear your childhood dreams wandering through your synapses, tantalizing you with hopes to come and regrets unrealized? Or do you simply hear the dripping of faucets, whirring of clock gears and midnight conversations of neighbors?

Whatever nighttime echoes are yours you will find here. You will find them to comfort or dishearten you, to console or to torment. All things echo here in this haunting ambient compilation from Bottle Imp Productions.

This 5″ CD-R is hand printed, and assembled, and comes with a Bottle Imp Productions vinyl sticker. Cover art printed on vellum paper with black ink. Album can be downloaded free, but is also available from iTunes and Amazon MP3.

Tracklisting

1) Metria, “He Knows”
2) The Hills Are Alive, “Oscillating Conversations”
3) Dark Muse, “Shadows in the Trees”
4) Life Toward Twilight, “Moonbeam”
5) Scrotal Tear, Aubuchon’s Implements”
6) Bramble, “Apocrypha”
7) Amnion, “Exp 010″