Cette semaine dans
Connexion Bizarre (www.connexionbizarre.net), webzine & webcast sur musique electronique:
REVIEWS
Tor Lundvall - YuleDedicated to the spirit of the season this mini album hits the nail on its proverbial head with nine short tracks, varying from small but consistently produced soundscapes to real Christmas songs. Real little sparkling gems for this dark and melancholic time of the year.
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Cacophony - TransmissionsOne can definitely see the appeal in Cacophony as he picks Power Noise and freely adds elements from various other genres and influences - like gabber, breakcore and computer games - avoiding stereotypical formulas , and doesn't seem afraid of kicking things up a few notches.
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Dead Man's Hill - Lakes Of SacrificeAn album of two halves where, just when you think you have the formula and 'sound' worked out, everything is turned on its head and Dead Man's Hill reinvent themselves and move into entire new realms of dark and disturbing ambience where the album really shines.
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V/A - Electric Sheperd: an audio tribute to Philip K. DickIf any novelist's work lends itself to being memorialised in off-the-wall electronic musical form, it's Phillip K. Dick's. Anyway, if you can't warm to a compilation that features a tongue-in-cheek Rick Deckard voice rapping white-trash style about blowing away replicants, well, what hope is there...?
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Connexion Bizarre - 2006 FlyersA compilation/showcase of the flyers created for Connexion Bizarre-related events in 2006.
See moreWEBCASTPart 1 - Click here to stream or right-click to download("2006 year in review (part 1)" with music selection by M.)
Addicted2Fiction- Deadstars[
Addicted2Fiction - Heartcore]
Welle:erdball - Das Souvenir[
Chaos Total - Synthetic Symphony]
Celluloide - People Like Me[
Bodypop EP - Boredom Product]
Pzychobitch - Go Pussy Go[
Electrolicious - Minuswelt]
Eight To Infinity - Tidal Waves[
Aether - Section 44]
Intuition - Right Beside You[
Overworked & Underplayed - A Different Drum]
CTRL - Such A Shame[
Loaded Weapons And Darkened Days - Diffusion Records]
Mesh - My Hands Are Tied[
We Collide - Königskinder]
Covenant - 20 hZ[
Skyshaper - Synthetic Symphony]
Extropy - Metropolis[
The Machineries - Evolve Singularity]
Part 2 - Click here to stream or right-click to download("2006 year in review (part 2)" with music selection by M.)
Flint Glass - Cthulhu Dawn[
Nyarlathotep - Brume Records / Funk Welten]
Heimstatt Yipotash - How Kosmic They Are[
Storegga Effect - Hands Productions]
Cacophony - Transmissions[
Transmission r02t03 Over - Sistinas]
Ybrid - Strepitus[
Khaos De Viscera - Ark-Aïk]
Prometheus Burning - When The Past Becomes Present[
Beyond Repair - Hive Records]
Soiled - Toytown Council Stunt Team[
Nil By Visual - Elm Lodge Recordings]
Cdatakill - You Are Mine[
Valentine - Ad Noiseam]
ILI feat. Voliushka - Olyushka[
V/A - Slavosonic - Dars Records]
Strange2 - Origen[
Partes De Un Todo - Lovethechaos]
Angina P - Known Issues[
8 Rooms - Notochord]
Displacer - Left On Pluto[
Cage Fighter's Lullaby - M-Tronic]
Part 3 - Click here to stream or right-click to download("2006 year in review (part 3)" with music selection by M.)
Mnemonic - Envy[
Monokültur - M-tronic]
Photophob - Huge Storm Coming (Fairy Falls)[
Still Warm - Hive Records]
Oil 10 - Synchro 4 All[
Beyond - Funk Welten]
Terretron - Hunger[
Wither - The Pandemic]
Muckrackers - Lokomotiv[
Biz Zum Tod - Les Forces Alliés]
Iszoloscope - From Hollow[
The Audient Void - Ant-Zen]
This Morn' Omina - Ibedyi[
Les Passages Jumeaux - Ant-Zen]
Xabec - No Disko[
Using Unused Methods - Hands Productions]
Zonk't - Equation Part.2[
Purr - Sound On Probation]
Saltillo - Grafting[
Ganglion - Suspicious Records]
Les Sentiers Conflictuels & Andrew King - Goulston Street[
1888 - Athanor]
CD GIVE AWAY COMPETITIONDead Man's Hill "Lakes Of Sacrifice" CD give-away
We have 5 copies of "Lakes Of Sacrifice", the latest album by Belgian Death Industrial act Dead Man's Hill, courtesy of the Canadian label
Bugs Crawling Out Of People.
With "Lakes Of Sacrifice", Dead Man's Hill presents a sound that crosses, combines, and surpasses subgenres, resulting in a tour de force of industrial, neo-classical and neo-folk that is a powerful entity with a horror movie soundtrack feel. In addition, the album features "Sacrifice Of Subscription", a collaborative track with spoken word artist It-Clings and a remix of "Legions Of Coldness" by Nick Gorman of
Fractured.
To be elegible to win the CDs in question, mail us at
info[AT]connexionbizarre[DOT]net with your full name and street address. Deadline for this giveaway is December 31th, 2006 and winners will be selected at random on that day.
Not valid for current Connexion Bizarre staff members."Riyaz Master" compilation + Shhh... "Shhh..." CD give-away

As part of the celebrations of the 5th anniversary of the
Thisco label, we
had four copies of the recently released compilation "Riyaz Master" and four copies of Shhh...'s debut album to be given away courtesy of the
Thisco label.
"Riyaz Master" was favourably reviewed in Connexion Bizarre and you can read our review
here. The review of Shhh...'s album can be read
here.
The winners of the "Riyaz Master + Shhh..." give-away were: Brendan S. (nz), Claudio P. (pt), David v.d.M. (sa), Morgan R. (us).
Regards et un bon 2007 à tout le monde!
M.