Monofonik - New EP!!

Novi EP - Vatra

Početak 2008. godine, obilježen je pojavom novog EP-ja pod imenom Vatra.

Uz naslovnu stvar, EP sadrži još dvije nove pjesme - Good Night i Arbeit. Good Night se može poslušati na matičnoj Monofonik stranici dok Arbeit možete poslušati na playeru na mojoj Myspace stranici.

Vrlo uspjeli dizajn omota je napravio Nieuw NDG.

Bastion

BASTION

Bastion was new wave, synth-pop band, from Skopje, Macedonia, formed in 1983 by Kiril Džajkovski (keyboards), Ana Kostovska (vocals) and Ljubomir Stojsavljević (bass). Lyrics for their debut (and only) album were written by Milčo Mančevski, film director, who also directed video for their song "Hot Day In Mexico".

Here is their album from 1986:
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Third I: Album reviews

Here are some reviews of the Third I albums:

Third I - When Tomorrow Hits (Net released, 2007)
Nekoliko mojih prijatelja je krenulo sa "skidanjem" ovog albuma sa neta, ali im nije bio nimalo slušljiv. Uz dužno poštovanje, rekoše, taj industrial nije za njihove uši. Dobro, velim, ajde vi to skinite pa cu ja da se "žrtvujem". Onda je došlo do trenutka kada je hard disk mog "mucenika" zarotirao gore pomenuti album. I, gle! To ne da nije loše, nego naprotiv.
Dakle, odmah u najavi da naglasim da sam više nego prijatno iznenaden ovim izdanjem. Kako po sadržaju, tako i po kvalitetu. Ako je vec nužno da se nadevaju neke stilske etikete, ovo jeste industrial, ali ne bilo kakav. Ima tu primesa i ambienta i duba, ali (ma kako to vama neverovatno zvucalo) i emocija i melodije! Upravo je to možda i najveca vrednost ovog izdanja. Pop muzika i melodije/emocije - to vec ide, ali industrial i emocije i melodija - svaka cast!
Preslušavanje ovog albuma (cijih 27 minuta možda deluju kratko, ali suštinski su prava porcija iskaza) pobudilo mi je asocijacije na neka davna vremena. Mnogi ce reci da je prvi industrial na ovim prostorima viden sa pojavom benda Laibach sredinom osamdesetih, ali pravi pioniri su drugi. Još se pocetkom osamdesetih pojavljuju prvi snimci benda/projekta Autopsia, koji su nekoliko godina docnije sabrani na kasetnom izdanju Oscularum Infame (Slovenija Kopar - K009). Nikad culi? Ok. Elem, druga paralela koja mi se nužno javlja je cinjenica da je Autopsia došla iz malog mesta koje se zove Ruma, a Third I iz slicno malog mesta poznatog kao Cuprija. Nisu to neki preterano bitni podaci, ali u kontekstu geografije ovih prostora i koliko ta geografija odreduje necije stavove, daleko do toga da nisu od znacaja.
When Tomorow Hits se pojavio kao net izdanje, što znaci da vas samo malo dobre volje deli od dolaženja do njega. Redovni posetioci net fanzina Helly Cherry su to sigurno vec ucinili. Siguran sam da preslušavanje ovog materijala nece prijati baš svim ušima, ali je preporuka da se obavezno nabavi i presluša - siguran sam da ce se naci neki novi ljubitelj zvukova koji baš i nisu preterano uobicajeni. Uostalom, ovo je muzika postapokalipticnog doba, a ako je apokalipsa jednako otkrovenje, zakljucak se namece sam.
Realnost ne samo da ume da bude nego suštinski jeste surova, a ova muzika može da pomogne da se naviknete na nju. Ako želite svoj primerak ovog albuma proskitajte po linkovima: www.hellycherry.cjb.net i www.myspace.com/krikunutrasnjosti
Branislav Nikolic /
Plastelin web magazin / www.plastelin.com /


Third I - When Tomorrow Hits (2007)
Zanr – Ambiental
Izdavac – Smell the Stench
Trajanje – 27:16
Nenad Popovic, urednik cuvenog e-casopisa “Helly Cherry”, je jos pre dve godine pokrenuo jedan instrumentalni projekat i time zapoceo sa stvaranjem muzike. Prvobitni naziv projekta bio je “Doping Mozga”, pa je onda promenjen u ovaj, znatno bolji a i originalniji, “Third I”. Posle dva promo/demo snimka izlazi i prvi album “When Tomorrow Hits” za izdavaca “Smell the Stench”. Ovaj album je jedna sinkrazija raznih ambijentalnih zvukova. To su najcesce dark ambiental, electrozirani ambiental, pomalo industrial kao i jos raznorazni lo-fi zvuci. Uopste nisu ekstremni i napeti kao sto umeju da budu, vec su, naprotiv, jako blagi i prijatni. Moram da priznam da me pojedine stvarice, kao sto je onaj ritam u drugoj polovini numere “Cold Chamber” i neki delovi numere “Postapocalyptic Discoteque”, asociraju na domaci projekat “Pamba”. Stvari kao sto su “Liquid Fear of Future” i “Threatful Silence” pobudjuju mracne misli. Neretko se mogu cuti i “speech” useci, verovatno iz nekih filmova, sto na kraju nije lose ispalo. S tim sto je, ipak, mozda trebalo u manjoj meri da ih bude. 85/10
Monarch, Hard n Heavy webzine
www.hardandheavy.net


Third I - CD When tomorrow hits…
Smell the Stench records
Na u potpunosti ambijentalnom , instrumentalnom (?) ostvarenju grupacije Third I naslovljenog sa When tommorow hits..., vanserijski je efektno dočaran duh, dah i zadah neminovne sutrašnjice i post apokaliptične ere. To se već veoma jasno, uz sablasni huk koji, između ostalog i samu jezu uteruje pod vašu kožu, može zapaziti već u uvodnom zapisu Cold chamber čiji nenametljivo blagi industrijalizovani šmek neodoljivo vraća u vreme i podseća na rane radove u svetskim razmerama neprevaziđenih Nine Inch Nails ali ipak, samo u naznakama. Dovoljno dobrim. Najboljim. Third I, nastavljajući da provejavaju sa demonizirajuće mističnim isijavanjima i tripoznim uplivima kroz opustošene vijuge moždane mase (bilo čije) u sniglu koji je najavio album – Trinity – dovoljno su ubedljivi da postaje kristalno jasno zašto je ovo ostvarenje objavila Australijska kuća Smell the stench a ne neka tobože renomirana, ovdašnja. Jedan od najzaslužnijih za nastanak ovog u najmanju ruku neobičnog muzičkog dokumenta jeste Nenad Popović – urednik u alternativnom svetu izuzetno respektovanog hard core & punk & underground art web magazina Helly cherry (možete ga posetiti na adresi www.hellycherry.cjb.net i uknjižiti ga pod favorites).
Osam ovde prezentovanih ambijentalno psihodeličnih, duhovno nemarno ( i verovatno namerno) posrnulih i satanizovano ( bolje nego politički, slažete li se?) korektnih muzičkih zapisa jesu za, sada i ovde, dominantne muzičke pravce i produkte, potpuno neočekivani, dijabolični i nedvosmisleno post apokaliptični mentalno / emotivno / duhovni zabeleženi, materijalizovani useci i rezovi. I to ne samo kružni i ne samo po kompaktnoj disketi. Realno očekivani i neizbežni. Poslušajte (ih) bez predrasuda.
Undergruond kulturna struja i Third I su na najvišem mogućem umetničkom nivou. Pluća su puna čistog vazduha, konačno.
Milan B. Popović
časopis Bestseller,
Kontra web magazin - www.kontra.org.yu

Synesthesia

SYNESTHESIA

SYNESTHESIA is an experimental/industrial music project from Osijek, Croatia formed in late 2007 by two close friends.

Ever since, the two band members were always orientated towards electronic/EBM/electro/industrial music and favored bands like Front Line Assembly, Leaetherstrip, Nine Inch Nails, The Art of Noise, Kraftwerk, Depeche Mode, Cabaret Voltaire, Soft Cell, OMD, Yazoo, Gary Numan, etc... generally, the entire 80's electronic music scene, more or less. Thus finding their inspiration and motives for starting project of their own where they could express themselves in various styles of electronic music.

The project started with no particular goal whatsoever, just to express ourselves through music we make, and to give the "city" we live in our personal mark. If anything should happen beyond mentioned above, so be it!

In the future, we are aiming to develop our personal "sound watermark", and to be resembled as ourselves - SYNESTHESIA , bypassing "sounds from the past" with sound styles of nowadays using our music orientation and favored bands as guidelines/inspiration only. Our sound is going to gradually develop towards better produced, better quality, and generally towards some ambiental/electro/EBM/industrial direction (eg. catchy basslines, vocoder voices, sampled sounds of machines/effects, stronger beats/drums, more voluminous material). We generally think that there is not much revolutional to offer in music today - all is done long ago.

And at last ... about origin(s) of our project name and reason we choose it:

"syn-es-the-sia n. Physiol. Sensation produced at a point other than or remote from the point of stimulation, as of a color from hearing a certain sound (fr. Gk, syn = together + aisthesis = to perceive)."

or

"Synesthesia is an involuntary joining in which the real information of one sense is accompanied by a perception in another sense. In addition to being involuntary, this additional perception is regarded by the synesthete as real, often outside the body, instead of imagined in the mind's eye. It also has some other interesting features that clearly separate it from artistic fancy or purple prose. Its reality and vividness are what make synesthesia so interesting in its violation of conventional perception. Synesthesia is also fascinating because logically it should not be a product of the human brain, where the evolutionary trend has been for increasing separation of function anatomically."

by R. Cytowic, "Synesthesia: A Union of the Senses" Springer-Verlag, NY (p.
1)

website


and here is their Demo Album from 2008. available for free download:

Demo album tracklist (covers included):

1.New World Order
2.Resistance (atmospheric mix)
3.Synesthesia
4.Kontakt
5.Full Impact

Synesthesia Demo 2008

SHADOWPLAY

Shadowplay started in 1996.and it's an old industrial band from Nis!
Manipulation of tracks and grind metal voice of Gary Bramil (Bratislav Milovanovic) are interesting way that Shadowplay shows us inner darkness, fear, madness, it's apocaliptyc, drone project!!!
By using of guitars, synths, tracks ,Shads changing reality by showing distorted pictures!!!
Later Gary Baramil cooperate with Third I in "This is our postapocalypse" and
"Ko ne plati na mostu platice na Cupriji colaboration cd of Cuprija's noise scene.
"After all those years" is collection of singles and good chance for band reunion with it's dark noisy industrial!!!
Soon more information about new shadowplay, discography and bandmembers!!!



tracklist:

1.show me your feer
2.phantoms of life
3.romance of dead souls
4.strange voices
5.way of reason
6.amnesia

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Maltreat

MALTREAT

Maltreat 2004 - 2006, rip, conducted as a classic four man band based in Beocin, working in Novi Sad, with just few gigs and eight recorded tracks, along with 2 unrecorded, but still the best "Reposte" and "27 Tense Minutes", made great contribution to local scene with music never heard before. Band relied their sound on classics as "kuyss, deftones, alice in chains..." and vocals more like that dirty noiserock screaming. Only recs. are 8track demo from 2005 made in "RobatzClub" during one hour session and "Say Yes To Dope (live in dvoriste)" Bootleg concert recording, that has been released as a Badroomtapes release. One and only lineup was: Srdjan Stevanovic - Drums, Marko Stevanovic - Guitar, Songwriting, Batalo Nemanja - Bass, Sindjelic Milan - Vocals, Lyrics.

Morbidi i mnoći

Morbidi i mnoći

Morbidi i mnoći were a gothic rock band from Belgrade (Serbia). We have only
some information about this band. Marko Milivojević played drums (he was later
a member of the cult Serbian band EKV), Milorad Milinković was a frontman (he later
became a famous Serbian film director) and Dejan Stefanović played bass (Duh Nibor bassist). We guess that this band performed around middle 80's to early 90's.

More information about this band coming soon!

Pink Vector

PINK VECTOR

Interesting industrial/experimental project that comes to us from Zagreb (Croatia).
Pink Vector generates dark,noisy tunes out of wast sea of subconsciousness.
The whole idea of it is to capture or crystalize human thought through sound and/or visual art. There will be graphic art booklet on our Myspace profile scaned soon, so you'll get better image about all this. For the time being it's only a garage/home project, apart from few private parties around Zagreb where we played our tunes for a limited number of people. The band was formed in december 2007, after Engel's and Alarm's random encounter. Hope you like our music. Cheers! ;)

You can check their music at their MySpace page
here!

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Block Out

BLOCK OUT

formed in Belgrade in late 1990, the group was founded by the singer Milutin Jovancic. Nikola lived for 4 years in Moscow before returned to Belgrade in 1990. Nikola helped out then popular Serbian band Ruz for one tour and performed some gigs with then legendary Satan Panonski as well, before joining Block Out.

in 1992 Take It Or Leave It published Live KST, Akademija only as a tape release, and it was a collection of songs played live in famous Belgrade rock clubs.

the first studio debut, Crno Belo Srebrno (released on ITMM) came out in 1994.

Godina Sirotinjske Zabave (Metropolis) came out in october 1996, and the album was proclaimed by the Belgrade Parliament as the album of the year.

in late 1998 came out the long awaited San Koji Srecan Sanjas Sam (Metropolis), the album that defined the unique Block Out style of depression and heavy melancholy, which varied from Pink Floyd and King Crimson via Bauhaus and Discharge to the legacy of Ekatarina Velika. Again, many critics hailed it as the album of the year, while some of the critics' references were "how would OK Computer sounded if it was recorded in Serbia" or San being "the Serbian Black Album".

Izmedju Dva Zla (Metropolis) was a double live CD that came out in february 2001 (recorded in SKC 11th Sept 1999). it just confirmed how strong Block Out sounded live, and the evidence that it was possible to perform the thick production of San live was more than convincing.

after a serious amount of concerts with Block Out, Nikola Vranjkovic self-released the book Zaovdeilizaponeti in 2001, a collection of all poems and lyrics he had ever written. it came out with a bonus CD of his own solo project, mainly calm and acoustic based, but very close to what Block Out is about poetically.

Block Out spent about year and a half in making and recording of their 4th full-length, Ako Imas S Kim I Gde (Multimedia, 2004). it surely represents Block Out's strongest statement, a kind of final part of the trilogy to some (Godina/San/Ako Imas). the calm parts got more atmospheric, the heavy riffs got heavier. more complex than ever before, it can be heard through every track that the band spent many months in making of that one. Nikola himself handled the production duties, and the possible comparisions that can be drawn might be Tool, Deftones, Opeth and Katatonia, but covered with the band's acknowledged unique style.

it remains unclear if Block Out will ever make a follow-up to Ako Imas S Kim I Gde. after all they have given to the Serbian music scene, they don't have to. the making of album itself was a monstrous task, and it surely represents one of the best albums ever made in Serbia, ex-Yugoslavia as well. artistic-wise, how the album's real musical and social perspective will get fully absorbed in public remains to be seen in years to come.

the band is still active live.

(written by Danilo Nikodinovski, April 2006)

discography:

- Crno, belo i srebrno (1994)
- Godina sirotinjske zabave (1996)
- San koji srecan sanjas sam (1998)
- Izmedju dva zla (2001)
- Ako imas s' kim i gde (2004)

website

download:
BLOCK OUT Beograd 1991 - 1993 (KST - FLU)

Bjesovi

BJESOVI

dark rock / psychodelic rock

Grupa je od samog pocetka privukla paznju neobicnom postavom sa dva pevaca, brizljivo osmisljenim nastupima, prepoznatljivim i licnim tekstovima, kao i muzickom podlogom u okvirima Grunge muzickog rok pravca ciji su prirodni deo, i generacijski i idejno, tih ranih devedesetih bili i srpski Bjesovi. Postava se uglavnom menjala prema potrebama i zamislima dvojca koji je grupu i osnovao: Zorana Marinkovica i Gorana Marica . Prvi veliki uspeh grupe je pobeda na Gitarijadi u Cacku 1989. godine, a zatim je 1993. usledila pobeda na 27. zajecarskoj gitarijadi i u narednih par godina mnostvo koncerata i velika medijska paznja usmerena na ovaj bend. Bjesovi su do danas izdali cetiri audio albuma, a najveci uspeh grupe je bio drugi po redu (bezimeni) album. Na prvom albumu “U osvit zadnjeg dana” uspesno su kroz postpubertetski bunt, izrazili sopstvenu zudnju za ovaplocenjem u umetnosti, a i u zivotu uopste. Drugo je izdanje svedocilo njihovo razocaranje nametnutim a losim ustrojstvom za svakog coveka u bilo kojem vremenu i na bilo kojem meridijanu nase planete. Treci je album Bjesova radosno uskliknuo: “ IMA BOGA ! ON ZAISTA POSTOJI I NJEGOVO DRUGO IME JE LJUBAV ! ” I sve je od tog trenutka dobilo smisao. Jedino sto im se tada cinilo besmislenim je bila ideja da Bjesovi i dalje postoje. 1997. godine, posle izlaska albuma "Sve sto vidim i sve sto znam" Zoran i Goran raspustaju grupu. Od 2000. godine Bjesovi ponovo postoje u nesto drugacijoj postavi i sa jednim pevacem, Zoranom Marinkovicem, guruom i vodjom benda. 2001. godine, Bjesovi izdaju live album ‘’Na zivo’’ na kojem sa tri poslednje, a nove pesme, dodaju finalnu sentencu svom “opusu” pomerajuci celu stvar sa nivoa strahopostovanja na nivo ciste ljubavi. Poslednje, peto izdanje je multimedijalni disk sa video snimkom koncerta Bjesova iz beogradskog KST-a od 31.05.2003. uz prateci sadrzaj u vidu tekstova pesama, fotografija sa koncerta, plakata koncerta, intervjua iz tog vremena... Snimanje i stampanje ovog izdanja, Bjesovi su sami finansirali, a kasnije, odstampanih 1000 primeraka besplatno podelili fanovima i novinarima. Na ovom izdanju grupe, u sklopu multimedije nalazi se i omot u digitalnom obliku u odlicnoj rezoluciji, tako da ga svako, posto sebi prereze disk, moze i odstampati. Sve ovo je bitno jer otkriva Bjesove u jednom drugom svetlu koje ima jak socijalno moralni, pa i politicki karakter. Izbeci oficijelne srpske izdavace koji ionako nista ne urade za grupe koje izdaju, u zemlji koja jeste majka, ali majka cedomorka koja je u kontejner sa djubretom posle porodjaja odbacila ne samo Bjesove nego i sve ostale svoje rok bendove. Cinjenica da Bjesovi zrace ne samo u okviru rokenrola nego i na razne druge strane i to veoma jako, je razlog da i dan danas, posle skoro 20 godina postojanja, imaju brojnu publiku sastavljenu od ljudi izmedju sebe vrlo razlicitih, ali koje povezuje najvece pitanje koje sebi bilo ko od nas moze postaviti - pitanje svrhe covecijeg postojanja.

izvor: MySpace strana benda

diskografija:

- Prvi demo (1989)

- U osvit zadnjeg dana (1991)

- Bjesovi (1994)

- Sve što vidim i sve što znam (1997)

- Na živo (2001)

- Bolje ti (2009)

- Svetla, svetlosti (2011)

website

Low Spin

LOWSPIN

Bend LOW SPIN je nastao 1999 god. I koncertno bio aktivan do 2002 god. Bend su osnovali Ognjen i Sale , a vrlo brzo im se priključio Siniša. Imali su 20-tak dobro zapaženih samostalnih koncerata ali i sa raznim grupama iz zemlje. U ovom veoma kratkom radu ostavili su iza sebe 15 – 20 pesama. Svaka pesma je imala drugačiju priču od predhodne pa tako da je i sam zvuk bio veoma čudan. Kada bi se očekivalo od njih da daju svoj komentar o muzici koju stvaraju rekli bi to ovako ‘’ Islamska mučka forma pomešana sa teškom gitarskom muzikom , bubnjem koji je ujedno i perkusija u bendu’’. Kako je vreme prolazilo tako su se i članovi menjali tako da je u jednom periodu – sale napustio bend i na njegovo mesto je došao Toni koji je bio u stanju da odsvira sve kako je zamišljeno. Bend je posle veoma kratkog vremena prestao da bude aktivan. 2008 godine u aprilu Low spin se skupio u originalnoj postavci i napravio par proba..... Budućnost ovog benda je neizvesna ako nastave da sviraju očekuje vas veoma čudan agresivan i napet zvuk.......

Low Spin-Live in Dvoriste (bootleg)

Kismet

KISMET

The music of KISMET can be described as a fusion of traditional Balcan ethno , experimental , darkwave-industrial and electronic sounds.KISMET debut in 1994 as an extension of the Macedonian cult band MIZAR who had huge succes in the Balkan's in the late 80's early 90's.They released their first EP "Dormant Dire" (1994) with their first line up:Gorazd Chapovski,John Hrup,Pece Kazanovski and Metodi Kundevski.After this they change their line up and recorded their first LP "Damjan's War" (1995).Their latest recording "Wake Up Gods" has been released on 10.II.1998 on American label Tone Casualties (Cargo Distribution).Tone Casualties is a label dedicated to dark,atmospheric,cinematic,ambient industrial music with a surreal twist which explains their interest in KISMET.They've worked with the likes of Frank Zappa, Mark Mothersbaugh (of Devo) and Drew Neumann (Aeon Flux, Mtv) further comfirming their commitment to experimental music.

While currently based in Australia , KISMET regulary work in Macedonia giving them a dedicated following in Australia,Central Europe and the Balkans.KISMET also have signed up the contract with MTV - America which allows MTV to use some samples from the album "Wake Up Gods" in some of the shows like "Road Rules" and
"Real World"

from: Official site

members:
Gorazd Chapovski : vocal,tambura,zurla,guitar,samples and programs
Ilija Stojanovski : bass,tambura and kaval
Stefan Popovic : drums , tapan
Steven Teref : vocal - spoken word

discography:

Dreaming (200?)
North Atlantic Balkan Express (Tone Casualties - 1999)
Wake up Gods (Tone Casualties - 1998)
Damjan's War (Paritor Records - 1995)
Dormant Dire (EP) (Paritor Records 1994)

website

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AJ HEJT

Ovo je strip koji ce izlaziti na svakih nedelju dana na D:S blogu a njegova uloga je da nas malo razveseli i osvezi blog. Autor stripa je Mihajlo Obrenov. Strip je zasnovan na ljudskoj gluposti i svaki nastavak je epizoda sacinjena od jednog kvadrata. Evo prvog: