Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, soundtrack.

Background/Info: Veteran Ivan Iusco entered into the history of electronic and industrial music as the owner of Minus Habens Records, one of the ‘guest musicians’ contributing to some of Dive’s most legendary songs, but he first of all became a respected and renowned soundtrack composer.

I remember his first experiment “La Capa Gira”, which is a soundtrack I still like to play from time to time.

Content: From the very first notes and arrangements you directly get into poignant orchestral passages and a heavy bombastic sound. The piano playing and some violin passages inject a refined and sensitive neo-classic touch. Ivan Iusco definitely became an expert when it comes to compose cinematographic music. The work is dark and quite heavy and features numerous layers.

Next to the ‘classical’ side of the work a few cuts reveal explicit electronic writing. It all remains pretty bombast and even epic-minded, but it also is a way to (re)discover the experimental side of the artist. Let’s not forget that Minus Habens released work of Sigillum S, Blackhouse, Nigthmare Lodge and other experimental/industrial artists. Ivan Iusco mixed elements of glitch and industrial bombast.

At the end of the album he also experiments with a kind of industrial-pop approach featuring female vocals by Tying Tiffany. This song reveals great electronic manipulations next to delicate piano playing.

+ + + : The orchestral/epic aspect of this work is grandiose while Iusco still remains an interesting experimental/industrial composer.

– – – : The diversity of the work might be seen as one of the album’s main strengths, but it also creates a lack of a compact feeling.

Conclusion: You have artists that dream of becoming talented and respected soundtrack composers, and there you have Ivan Iusco. There’s an enormous hiatus between both categories, which will become clear when listening to “Transients”.

Best songs: “The Arrival”, “Unformed”, “Circuitless feat. Tying Tiffany”.

Rate: (8).

Band: www.ivaniusco.com/home / www.facebook.com/ivan.iusco

Label: www.minushabens.com / www.facebook.com/MinusHabensRecords

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(Via DJ Wildhoney) LauraPalmer is besides the name of the famous fictional character of the American television series Twin Peaks now also the new alter ego of Tying Tiffany a.k.a. Tiff Lion.

The Italian frontwoman and DJ focuses this time on old-school techno from the defunct Belgian label KK Records, into the style of Psychick Warriors Ov Gaia, Kode IV, Zen Para dox, early Plastikman and a touch of pure industrial. Fans of the french act Mondkopf will surely like what they hear.

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