Instruments: (in no particular order)
Electric Guitars, Synthesizers, Piano, Acoustic Drums, Bass,
Voices, Field Recordings, Objects, traditional Instruments, Flutes, Cymbals, Drum Computer, Home Made Instruments, various Percussion Instruments
and heavy Sound Manipulations in Post-Process
Influences
"Are you sleeping already? The big sleep! Are you sleeping already? You won't recognize it, will you? You can't! O woe is us ...
Sounds Like
...down the road and not across the street.
Testphasen negativ albums are available through various distributors or directly here: CMP-Shop. You can also write a message here. PayPal, Bank-Transfer & Cash accepted.
"Hostia" CD version: Gapless Mix, CD, booklet, inlay, jewel case, protection bag.
CD released by ContraMusikProduktion.
Release date: 5/6. December 2009
The sound design is amongst the best in the dark ambient genre! The guitar flourishes that happen across various tracks are great, as are the vocals.
“Going Down…Again” is one of my favorite compositions TN has done. The orchestration and building throb create a menacing atmosphere.
Like I said, I really like this album, and I’ve already listened to it a dozen or so times.(Robert O./CATL)
Excellent new offerings!
Ice cold heat, that burns the senses and brings one's soul to experience ethereal sound.(John Fink Jr.)
Ralf Rabendorn returns with .... “Burn, Giant, Burn!”, a smouldering volcano of noise and sounds and other effusions, waking from dormancy into action.
Reversed vocals squawk and squeal, bubble from oppressive liquid flows and chaos. Deft touches of instrumentation are sprinkled sparsely and a quick glance at the liner notes shows Ralf doesn’t just rely on field recordings or computers as guitar, real drums, flute, traditional and man-made instruments among others feature. “Burn, Giant, Burn!” is anxious noise and less dark ambience, treating such moments with the same experimentation as much the sudden blasts of susurrating noise.
Testphasen Negativ refrains from merely developing noise into cacophony, rather using it in brief passages to segue flashing imagery like collage: there is never a dull moment and always something new glued over and under without being too dense. Symphonic progressions spoons a little classicism into the album but gargled vocals chew away any relief of the schizophrenic experimentation.
Kenji Siratori sneers a scowling spoken word recitation to the Asiatic “Anti-Vital”, which is one of the first times Siratori’s voice compliments further medieval horror to the soundtrack. As such it stands apart from the album in malignant minimalism, regardless if you cannot understand Japanese.
As with Ralf’s first album, the sound quality is superb, refined subtly and bristling a full range of frequency and stereo space. (Heathen Harvest)
(full review see the "blog")
It's a fantastic album. First time I heard "Anti-Vital" I had to play it over and over again. Just amazing.(Rune)
"How I won the war (wie ich den Krieg gewann)"
Pressed CD, 3x foldable A5 sleeve (printed on both sides), additional CD-sleeve (printed on both sides). Only a few!!
"And amazingly enough it’s the projects debut album- making this one of the most rewarding, multi layered and creative debut albums in recent years."(Judas Kiss)
"How I Won The War – Wie Ich Den Krieg Gewann” has also a quite disturbing atmosphere where you get the feeling that the evil is hiding everywhere."(Side-Line)
"The album is a dark mass of visions, a dream surreal in its fractured automatism, one that takes you to into trenches overwhelmed by the gulfs of blackness overhead."(Heathen Harvest)
"Seamless Testphasen Negativ goes from paranoid sound sculptures to melancholic piano pieces and back to bombastic industrial. Dark apocalyptic loops and disturbing atmospheres. "(Gothtronic)
"Across 18 tracks of assorted length, musician Ralf Rabendorn paints a nightmare on aural canvas that's similar to the cinematic surrealism of Nurse With Wound at their most dire, or perhaps for the next edition of the Silent Hill game franchise."(ReGen)
"In sixty minutes you’ll be convinced to cue/repeat."(Heathen Harvest)
"DAEMONIUM", mini concept collaboration album by Iri Li & Testphasen negativ.
Very limiited, prof printed cover, 3" CD
Label: GiN-Label (China)
Release date: July 2009
June 2009: Infinitus Ensemble - Scherbenschlaf (Sleep of Shards)
The man behind Testphasen negativ is also a member of the Infinitus Ensemble. The new album has been released on Frequent Sea Records (Canada) in June 2009. Album is out now!. The concept album contains many experimental ambient sounds and a lot more. Infinitus Ensemble is celebrating 10th anniversary this year (2009). For sound samples please visit the Infinitus Ensemble
Available here: CMP-Shop Frequent Sea Records
25. December 2008:
I have produced the excellent album "Broken Summer" by Iri Li and I helped with the artwork (front pic and design).
Great MEDUSADA album. (Surrealsim/ Avantgarde/ (Dark) Ambient/ Experimental/ Field Rec./ and more). Digipack edition Main distributor: ContraMusikProduktion
August 2008:
Click on the pic.
Exclusive collab song by Testphasen negativ and Dead Industrie
can be found on the excellent dark ambient/soundtrack album "Distant Whispers" by John Fink Jr. as Dead Industrie.
Released on "ContraMusikProduktion".
Album is out now, they ship worldwide!!
NEGATIV..alles..was blieb..was..könnte..ist..wenn..es.. Zeit..mit....Wegen...durcheinander.... zielen..........
TESTPHASEN...wo....leben.......lohnt...es..??
....dass es ist!!! ..??
(P)&(C) for all artwork, pictures and music by R. Rabendorn/Testphasen negativ!
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Zoharum Presents HOARFROST / INNER VISION
LABORATORY in first collaboration: ‘Broken Waltz’ – single taken from: The album ‘DECLINE’
Unusual collage of two kinds of style. Pulsating, machine ambient/industrial and soundscape and melodic
tracks. Misterious history across horror movies based on the music language. Premiere of album
23.02.2010 Pre-order will start on 14.01.2010 Premiere 23.02.2010
More info Zoharum
Diogenes was born in late 2007, through different conceptual and musical ideas, under the social repression and rejection, the human's race stupidity, trying to be superior, their love to money, the abandon, selfishness, hate, anger, lies, frustration, angst, fear, horror and terror, paranoia, poverty of mind... musically, the concept is to do music without stavlished schemes.
Llyn Y Cwn (Welsh - lake of the dogs) is a small lake at 715m, nestled between Glyder Fach and Y Garn in the Glyder mountain range of Snowdoina, North Wales.
Llyn Y Cwn is a dark ambient project by Ben Powell (mank).
The two EP’s were released only in digital format in 2009 – part 1 in March and part 2 in November. The EP’s try to emulate the type of environment encountered at Llyn Y Cwn, harsh and desolate but at the same time beautiful. They feature environmental field recordings from the mountains of north wales and from an ice breaker ploughing through ice at the north pole. The music is intended to be played as the listener is going to sleep.
Enzo approaches Hip Hop in his third refenrece (enz-003) with an artist who is going to give much that to speak so much in his natal Seville as out of it, "LIJERO". Creates and turns Hip Hop's concept and remixes being the first person in realizing this format in Spanish territory, trying to offer the maximum thing to the public who approaches it.
Thanks so much for the support. Hope you enjoy with us and grow together with future colaboration.
Wounded Violets Live (TONIGHT) Friday December 11th 6-8pm for Salvador Dali'/Artists' exhibit at Loveland Museum, Colorado U.S. "Surreal Wounded Violets"
Next Week: Saturday December 19th 10-Midnight Paris Wine Bar, Denver, CO U.S. LIVE!!
We will have some nice, artistic/hand made "Self Press" CDs for sale, edition of 10, made by Matthew Hunzeker, with Photos by Matthew Hunzeker....for sale at both shows...$10.00- Also "Sound Art" CD Kuuleminen Asiat..."collected sounds of Matthew Hunzeker" will be for sale by us, and Black Pyramid Records...visit www.MatthewHunzeker.com for more information..that is the Wounded Violets official website....also CONTACT WoundedViolets@gmail.com for inquiries about a self press CD, only for a limited time, small editions which will change per 10 pressings...until the release is out on the label.
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