Checkline: Totakeke – Elekatota: The Other Side Of The Tracks (cd Tympanik Audio)
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5 editors have checked out the 3rd album by the rhythmic noise, industrial artist Totakeke. "Elekatota: The Other Side Of The Tracks", released on the growing Tympanik Audio label obviously seems to have echanted our editorial staff. Here is our verdict.
- Totake's blend of atmospheric EBM comes equipped with the essential post-industrial/dark electronic influences. Orchestral synths glide under busy non conventional beats. The tracks move, fade, reprise and work itself along in dramatic fashion. An unconventional genre, pushing forward electronics. This is 21st century stuff!
(NOA:8)NOA
The music (or rather soundtracks) featured on this album from Totakeke is a blend of different elements: there are some more ambient electronic stuff mixed with bleeping synths and break beats, multi-layered sequences and heavily processed samples and loops. You fell there is a lot of work under those long tracks some of them binging hypnotic and dark atmospheres (like on the spelling “Gift Of Nervous Methods”) others bringing more rhythmic stuff (with some noise as well here and there). If you like soundtracks and or cinematic kind of electronic (with rather complex programming and sound design) you can grab this one.
(CF:7)CF.
Written, recorded and produced between January 2005 - November 2007, Totakeke brings a very versatile mix of soundscapes, click and cut, ambient electronics and industrial. Not extraordinary you'd say, but the mix here is very much personal avoiding the clichés which are all too much there in the industrial scene. Let's hope that besides Totakeke some more artists will see the light shining in order to update their approach of industrial sounds. A messiah for the industrial scene? Could be, we'll see...
(BVI:8)BVI.
Even if this project releases here his second album, it is the first time that I listen to this group from New York. Even if the press info proudly announced it, we don’t only find industrial music in this record but an innovative compilation of instrumental music: from ambient to idm with some injections of indus and sometimes some noisy influences. I thus appreciated this will to play with genres while keeping a good coherence.
(CX:7)CX.
Frank Mokros (Synth-Etik) aka Totakeke is a genius musician who really reinvent electronic ambient music. The influences of Tatakeke are moving from electro-ambient to industrial to some distant trance forms, but the way it has been worked out and composed is always progressive and innovative. The songs are well-crafted and elaborated while delivering certain complexity as well. Totakeke here delivers an album, which according to me sounds like a milestone in the underground scene! This is a production for all electro-ambient gourmets!
(DP:9)DP.
Band: www.tympanikaudio.com
Label: www.tympanikaudio.com / www.myspace.com/tympanik
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