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Just wanted to let you all know that there are four new ZOD releases out now, and they are all available at now. Amazing stuff - all highly recommended - but the Curtis Chip is expecially great. If you like artists like com.a, squarepusher, venetian snares, hrvatski, otto von schirach, commodore 64 music, you'll dig Zod's stuff. Although its far from being copycat material. Zod 12: EmotionalJoystick: Bellicose Pacific CD fulllength Artist: EmotionalJoystick Title: Bellicose Pacific Cat No: Zod.12 Format: CD fulllength Description: There is in the musical mood that runs through this recording, a certain poignant quality all too rarely found in current releases. For the EmotionalJoystick fan in general, this album will be regarded as a collector's item, since by the standards of Tom's releases in recent years it is an unusual set both in the style of execution and constitution of the two newest tracks: "Majik Johnson" and "Tonight is a Lie". Whatever may have happened in the intervening period, it is clear from the first note on the lead number that all the elements so vital to his style--excitement, technical mastery, jazz orientation, and a superb sense of continuity--are present in full force. Dynamic, indispensable and built around the propulsive sound that only he can take credit for; and much has changed in that sound since the Zod congregation was formed. Well versed in the building of a mood, he can play very simply, as he reveals from time to time during his tracks here; but his idols are masters whose control of sound is almost limitless. Tom's own technical command enables him to lead into the soaring Rhodes tangents achieved throughout the work, diving back down along the cosine until it all adds up...or does it? For, in this instance, the parts might just outweigh the whole. Fingers push hammers to divide by zero against their will, bending shapes into sounds for bald naked apes that beat out rhythms in constant accord |
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Zod 15: Soplerfo EP For Dogs 12" Artist: Soplerfo, Hrvatski Title: EP For Dogs Cat No: Zod.15 Format: 12" EP Using organic sounds to create the unspoken melodies of objects found, Soplerfo takes from the palette the sphere provides and cuts up down and around it like a knife gifted with vision. Textures push and "pull" as you shrug and scratch your head in awe, warm and reassuring, he wonders: "why can't it make sense to you?". Spinning the record, taking it back. It all starts to become clearer. Reassured of his place in time, this time, a musician takes his tortured leave of it all. Insomnia is contagious, it seems, among the ranks. Soplerfo sums up the thoughts of all those too young to participate in Live Aid, and too old to stalk the moonlit streets of gold until dawn with arms of paisley--"I want cookies in my sleep" he beautifully mutters, making sense to anyone who bothers to listen. "Ch" brings the wanting ear to a cumulative gesture, a knowing shrug at the enormity of the task at hand that breeds hallucinatios auditory, waves of emotion lull then provoke the mind as the needle eases ever closer to the grating sticker hilt. In the interim, "held on" closes the first side with tones warm, and playfully chaotic, melodies capture our attention long enough to hear the groove lock long enough to get up and flip. "Slow Progress" marks the start of the second side, reminding that with Soplerfo more is indeed more, and we thank him for that. Perhaps the album's opus, "Pale Over" follows progress with innovation, bending contemplation with tones violet, red and umber, if music had prime numbers this might be one. "Tame Nodes" is anything but, tangental thrusts force ones and zeros like squarewaves into round slots too small to hold their meaning. In closure, Hrvatski takes "Pale Over" into overture as he reorganizes Soplerfo's theme to the beat of four men with beards. The record stops and you flip it over again, pulling it all together, as if it had at all made sense |
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Zod 13: Curtis Chip: Eating Paste EP Arist: Curtis Chip Title: Eating Paste EP Cat No: Zod. 13 Format: 12" EP The sounds in these grooves resemble a kind of mutual admiration society--Curtis Chip and the music telling each other stories of cabin fever, the barn, so much gained, so much more to learn. In this, the long awaited, often speculated, widely anticipated follow up to ZOD 04, our resident minimalist bit-masher slices beats into anthemic prime nomial steps too fluid to comprehend in the first sitting. Moving like a shadow from drum and bass textures to synaptic cadenzas syncopated into rhythms that pan, scan and widen the dimensions of any speaker that dares to step. Fresh off his immersion, synths rise above structures even more complex than the first time around, propelling urgent basslines along melodies Otis Redding could have whistled to: familiar and foreign all at once. To the student of electronic music, it represents the zeitgeist of an era not too far back, but long enough gone to be missed. |
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Zod 18: Exillon: EP 1 12" Artist: Exillon Title: EP 1 Cat No: Zod .18 Format: 12" EP The newest steed in the zod stable, Exillon won't be made into paste for Curtis anytime soon. Armed with two computers, he creates mayhem that others equipped with an armory of hardware and machines fail to. Taking ten years of drumming, and four years backing the rock, summing it up into six songs of infinite depth and visceral scope, Exillon brings a clean, definite sound. Equally adept at ambiance and aggression, cataclysmic swells lead to suprisingly serene sunsets in the same track and throughout the whole. There is a sense of cohesion here not often heard, a self-assured aptitude contained in each verse that exudes the knowledge gained from years of experience we just haven't heard yet, but are bated in anticipation of. The first work, aptly titled "Opus", portends the casually technical master strokes to follow, with a sublime melody and infectious rhythm that leads into the sparse arrangements of "Loadok"--a subtle reminder of its own dense undercurrent's staccato vocce. "Piano" then leads off the latter side with a double entendre of rising tension coupled with the fluidity of its refrain, leaving little doubt as to its intent. "Watson" brings the tumult to a hilt, as you wait, white knuckled for the knife to plunge; only it is your ears that are playing the Hitchcock blonde, this time. Then, you catch ourself ...whistling again. Beautiful, nervous laughter put into song builds to catharsis, left shaking on the floor. You reach up to pour another, this is a "noise fest right?". |
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... cant be arsed |
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ZOD puttin the hurt on lately with all great releases. i have to order these. |
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who runs ZOD? |
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its a collective of folks (sam, ben tom..i think somebody else). but sam / dj destro is the main contact. |
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ive heard its a really big scary dude. mean and all evil like. ;) |
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can't be arsed? wtf i already ordered the new curtis chip, i'm waiting ever so patiently :D |
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yeah Zod is a great label. too bad someone would write them off so fast. |
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i've just placed the order for joystick geoff! |
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