Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, electro-ambient.

Background/Info: Sascha Lemon is one of those prolific artists unleashing every single year an impressive number of productions. I recently discovered the album “An integral Part Of Nothing”, which I personally consider his best work that he has ever made. And here’s already a new album featuring seven new tracks.

Content: The previous album featured songs inspired by IDM, and a few that are into cinematic music. “A Calm Heart Beating” moves on this soundtrack-inspired way revealing the most cinematic production from LFP 12 to date. The opening piece is really interesting for the input of good-old analogue sounds and effects. The song moves over the 11 minutes mark, but you never get the feeling of boredom. It sounds into reverie and that’s precisely what this work is all about. But it moves much further than simply an ambient trip. The tracks have been accomplished with numerous little crispy noises and other manipulations.

+ + + : LPF 12 again moves into another direction than its previous work. The cinematic side is not exactly an innovation for Sascha Lemon, but he clearly becomes more and more interested in it. The way he accomplished the debut track (cf. “Daylight Does Not Save Us”) again took me by surprise. It sounds a bit like a kind of apology to analogue sound treatments, but in the end it simply sounds great! The songs have been meticulously worked out and achieved with subtle arrangements you better can discover by using headphones. I also recommend listening to “Let No One Tell You Story” and “We Make The World Go Quiet”.

– – – : I personally prefer the IDM approach of LPF 12 instead of this cinematic production, but in the Sascha Lemon feels comfortable dealing with different styles.

Conclusion: LPF 12 is prolific, but remains fascinating because he avoids repeating himself while holding on to a high-quality level! Why doesn’t this project get more recognition?

Best songs: “Daylight Does Not Save Us”, “Let No One Tell You Story”, “We Make The World Go Quiet”.

Rate: (7½).

Artist: www.lpf12.de / www.facebook.com/LPF12SL

About LPF12

LPF12 (the name stands for “low pass filter 12 db”) is the solo-project of Sascha Lemon, active since 1993 with a run of cassette releases through 1995. After a 14-year break, Lemon restarted the project in 2009, re-releasing the “Enhance” tape and following it with the “Vicious Circle” EP, then continued self-releasing albums and EPs at a steady pace, including the 2021 album “A Clear Bright New Sky”.

Inferno Sound Diaries

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Genre/Influences: IDM, electro-ambient, glitch.

Background/Info: Ingo Lindmeier earned some fame during the 90s as a member of the dark-electro and sophisticated sounding Mortal Constraint. He got involved into different projects and Polygon has been his newest creative exposure. He released the excellent “Sein Lernen”-album by Aliens Production. This album features 15 tracks (3 more than the CD-format).

Content: This album features some interesting names, which all are renowned for their sophisticated and intelligent approach in electronic music as well. Polygon invited names like Flint Glass, Ab Ovo, Huron, Normotone, Headdreamer and a few less familiar names like RecFrag and Klangarchies while this digital edition also features label mates Ish, Headdreamer plus LPF 12. I also have to mention 3 remixes made by Polygon.

There’s an interesting twist of influences running through this work, with all the remixers trying to inject their own touch to the original songs. I was impressed by the bombast and reverie of RecFrag and the complexity of Huron.

Other attention grabbers were accomplished by Flint Glass and LPF 12. I expected a bit more out of the Polygon remixes although I’ve to mention a great and improved version of “Der Träumer”.

The sound universe of the original songs remains pretty faithful, and definitely diverse. The songs remain minimalism, bombast, reverie, but most of all into beautiful sound manipulations.

↑↑↑: I especially like the selection of bands for this remix concept I especially like the selection of bands for this remix concept while it’s also cool to get remixes from Polygon as well.

↓↓↓ : I can’t say that this album is really adding a bonus to the original album, which remains the one to discover first! It would have been cool to get one or two ‘new’ songs on it.

Conclusion: If you enjoyed the original full length “Sein Lernen” you for sure will appreciate this “Remixes”-version.

Best songs: “Kalter Fleck – Huron”, “Tag Ohne Gestern – RecFrag”, “Tag Ohne Gestern- LPF12”.

Rate: (DP:7)DP.

Band: www.sein-lernen.net / www.facebook.com/polygon-music-863946540311247

Label: www.label.aliens.sk / www.facebook.com/pages/Aliens-production-label/200028820052578

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I have been working for over 30 years with Side-line as the main reviewer. My taste is eclectic, uncoventional and I prefer to look for the pearls, even if the bands are completely unknown, thus staying loyal to the Side-Line philosophy of nurturing new talents.

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