RARITIES

Artist: Mathias Grassow + Klaus Wiese
+ Ted de Jong
P: 1991
This is the rare first edition with two seperate tracks.
Rythmic trance meditation.

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Artist: Electric Orange
P: 1996
It is a good album with nice tunes, it includes the typical German style, combining electronic passages, but in this case, the space rock part is not so present. It maintain the minimalism style of some of the bands of krautrock movement, in specific the electronic side.

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Artist: Electric Orange
P: 1993
Their first release, once at the Manikin Label.

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Artist: Elemental
P: 1999   
'Splendor’ is melodic and swirling, all very grand and uplifting. ‘18K’ has an immense sound to it, the sequence relatively low in the mix and so much is happening around it that it is often hard to make out and even more difficult to concentrate on as your attention will be pulled from one happening to another. Its amazing that so much could be fitted into a three minute piece. Title track next, another melodic one full of majestic splendour but also with a touch of sadness. A superb fast rumbling sequence blasts through ‘The Solar Disc’. A nice big fast rumbling one, very intense and never letting up for a second, in fact increasing in ferocity right to the end. Wonderful track. Sequences again on ‘Solis Artus’ and as before at top speed. ‘Faerie Magick’ features a gorgeous melancholy lead line, extremely beautiful and yet the’ twee filter’ was not bothered with it in the slightest. The sequencer kicks back in for ’Spiritus Lenitatis’ but this time it is much slower and plodding. ‘Kozmotron’ picks up the pace again but I felt the sequence could have done with a bit more variety, a criticism that could just as equally have been levelled at the next track ‘Illumination’. ‘Aethyria’ is a splendid track. Cosmic bleeps and warbles increase in intensity, almost as if there is a storm in space which is brewing but never quite breaks.

‘Un Danse Petite’ is another very melodic number, a beautiful track, even a mayhem merchant such as myself was touched by it. ‘Solis Occasus’ finishes the album off with another gentle sequence. I enjoyed this CD, it is more polished than his first ‘Lux Aeternae’ and Steven Stokes the man behind Elemental obviously poured a lot of himself into it but in the polishing it lost some of its bite. It is certainly a much more emotional album than the first and this is probably what spoilt it for me a little. It is also, however, the aspect that a lot of people will find the most appealing and on balance I would expect this album to sell even better than his first. (DL)

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Artist: Eric Snelders
P: 1995
After the excellent 'Looking for the Arms of Venus' I approached this CD with great anticipation. The 8 minute title track opens and immediately it's evident that Eric Snelders does not believe in departing too radically from a winning formula. The synth timbres, the female spoken voice and the measured approach are all very reminiscent of his previous album. 'Mixed Up Messages From My Mind' is a superb track bursting with intricate sequence patterns which surround a delicate piano interlude, while the short 'Beyond the Edge of the World' is a subliminal wash of ambience. The emphasis switches to a restrained and enjoyable melody on 'The Turn of a Lightship', and a throbbing bass sequence underpins massed synths on 'Cugel's Mission'. More pin sharp sequence patterns dominate the upbeat 'Wuthering Thoughts' accompanied by breezy melodics. The closing trio maintain the standard with ease and especially notable throughout the whole album is the superb sound quality - almost 3D at times. Fans of modern, melodic EM with plenty of sequences will certainly find much to their taste on this album. If you already have Eric Snelders' previous release 'Looking for the Arms of Venus' then this won't disappoint.  (GG)

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Artist: Eric Snelders
P: 1994
His first CD:
Instruments used:
Roland D20, S10, Alfajuno2,
Ensoniq ESQ1, Yamaha TX81Z, Alesis D4.

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Artist: Eric Snelders
P: 1998
His last album, recorded with carefully selected synthesizers.

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Artist: Erik Wollo
P: 2004
Erik Wollo's music floats with the grace of a hawk, effortlessly riding air currents that are left painted and glistening in his wake. But what sounds effortless is actually deeply layered, intricately woven and composed with a poetic language. Sometimes Erik is acoustic, as on GUITAR NOVA, sometimes all electronic, like POLAR DRONES, but it's on the blending of these two worlds that BLUE SKY, RED GUITARS really glistens. Erik Wollo bases most of his compositions on ostinato patterns that flicker at your consciousness like a mandala in motion, constantly cycling in prismatic shifts. Because of this modal approach, and his arching single string e-bow solos, Wollo's music has an Indian sensibility, without sounding Indian at all. Revealing roots that you might not suspect from most of his music, Wollo covers two songs from German electro-dance godfathers, Kraftwerk. He transforms their "In the Hall of Mirrors" and "Computerlove" into pastoral guitar chamber instrumentals. It's difficult to make music that is at once pristine and still screams through the air, but Erik Wollo does it on BLUE SKY, RED GUITARS, an album that is about as perfect as they come.
Wøllo's latest exploration into the creative possibilities of the guitar is rich with texture and melody,highly sculpted and detailed - a pulsing vibrant and atmospherically three-dimentional experience.Influenced by his travels to the North American Southwest, Wøllo manifests the natural wondersof the area through his instrument, painting profound vistas with many types of acoustic, electric,electronic, and classical guitar voices.
Ambient, rhythmic and melodic music stylistic in the same ambient era as "Guitar Nova".
Also influences from "Wind Journey" and "Emotional Landscapes".
Layers of various acoustic guitars, with percussion and some electronic treatments.
The album includes 2 cover versions of Computerlove and In the Hall of Mirrors,
both written by the german group Kraftwerk.
Originally synthetic and computerized music, here for the first time performed on acoustic guitars!

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Artist: Erik Wollo
P: 1996
Melodic electronic music with strong rhythmic elements. But there are also some ambient tracks. A technologic blend of pulsating rhythms, cruising sequencers, and space synths all mixed together. Erik Wøllos most pop-oriented album.

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Artist: Eroc
P: 1987
Melodic instrumentals, here the original Metronome label version.

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