STYLE...... Dark Ambient, IDM, Industrial, Experimental, Ambient LABEL..... Shadowplay Release, Zhelezobeton, Monopoly Records REL.DATE... 24-Jan-2010 COUNTRY... Russia "Cyclotimics" - the people who are dissolved in the crowd; easy manipulated. The members of this Russian duo, MK (keyboards, music, sampling, market rituals) and LM (drums, programming, sound engineering, electronic manipulations) reside in Moscow and have been involved in electronic music since 1997. They met in 1998 and formed Cyclotimia shortly thereafter with the purpose of making experimental music together. They gained fame as one of Russia's most respectful and well-known electronic projects, smartly combining trendy, experimental, and academic music. The left-wing oriented band chose to create music "condemning" the globalization and consumer society values.
"TimeBank" is a collection of exclusive compositions recorded by Cyclotimia in 2003-2007 and for some reasons left out of the main albums. The material presented here is hard to fit in the Procrustean bed of common musical styles, but we can try to list the ingredients from which this post-industrial "dish" was cooked: both cyber jazz and idm, neoclassics and trademark technological ambient, old-school electronics and atmospheric new age, experimental and many more can be found here...
Despite the seeming stylistic incompatibility the band succeeded in creating a self-sufficient album with a spectacular plot no worse than a good Hollywood thriller. A special jewel of the disk is the track "Nocturne" combining aerial melodies and uneasy sonic "cinematography". Also worth mentioning is the "live" 10-minute prog-industrial suite "Economic Meditation", imbued with psychedelic dramatism.
Words written about the band several years ago remain true even today: "While actively using the possibilities of analogue and vintage equipment Cyclotimia creates unique soundscapes, suspenseful and sublime at the same time. Not so many projects can successfully implement such impressively "cold" atmospheres and, despite being "technological", fill the sound with such a deep humanistic sense."
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