POORDREAM - 'Immaterial Monarch' CD [33CD001 + SLQ007]
Immaterial Monarch is John Valasis' aka Poordream's
own adaptation of a truly exceptional experimental music conception,
the absolute experience of an internal trip. Drawing influences mainly
from the Zeitgeist movie series, Immaterial Monarch features 3
tracks by Poordream, which carefully blend genres such as IDM, ambient,
electronica and experimental world music, as well as the same-titled
track remixed by no less than 7 different artists.
Straight from the underground, wisely turning dubstep into breakstep, Mobthrow bridles upbeat breaks and twisted bass frequencies, in a unique combination of raw power and dark atmospheres. Even though tags are useless when such ceaseless beauty flows throughout this ultra-heavy explosion, new-jazz, techno, ambient, IDM, amen breaks and tons of bass are only some of the directions, in which Mobthrow unfolds his stunning technique.
With this debut release from his new project, Dave Dando-Moore (Detritus) offers us an intensely composed symphony of unending sorrow. This is as raw, open and confessional as music can get. Drawing comparisons with Max Richter, Deaf Centre, Johann Johannsson and The Protagonist, A Wake A Week will evoke cathartic exorcisms of woe in even the most glacial of hearts.
