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Subba-Cultcha Review of Duality

UK webzine, Subba-Cultcha recently posted a review of Duality.

"... Dark industrial hip-hop beats and soundscapes that paint a far from idyllic picture of the underground..."

The full review can be found here -
http://www.subba-cultcha.com/album-reviews/article.php?contentID=25182

kultur[terrorismus]

German webzine, kultur[terrorismus] recently published a review of Duality.

Below is the english translation:

"...In my personal discography, some albums are classified as "Crossover Dance Floor" and that would be a perfect description for the album, 'Envisioning Abstraction: the Duality of FluiD' by Chicago-based musician/producer FluiD. Envisioning Abstraction: the Duality of FluiD is released on Alrealon Musique (based in Switzerland and the USA), who released a trendy and stylish digipack CD.

Christophe Gilmore alias FluiD – a proud but critical American (a rare combination), which shows through his work the present and the hypothetic al future of his country. Because his overall vision is probably negative or pessimistic, this album has a dark touch.

Musically, FluiD has created a tasteful blend of Dub, Trip Hop, Metal, Hip-Hop and Noise-Core. In this album, melodies and experimentation share equal parts. Envisioning Abstraction: the Duality of FluiD can please Massive Attack listeners as well as well as those of a more specific crowd.

My favorite track is clearly the catchy 'Dread Futures' (I love Reggae!) it presents the finest Dub combined with distorted guitar lines.

In conclusion, 'Envisioning Abstraction: the Duality of FluiD' is the perfect album for people who love “out of the box” music, multicultural love & Massive Attack!

I like it and I recommend it!..."

You can read the review in German here -
http://kulturterrorismus.de/rezensionen/fluid-envisioning-abstraction-the-duality-of-fluid.html

Sonyudum review of Duality

Turkish blog, Sonyudum, recently posted a review of 'Duality'. It is mixed in with a review of The Blood of Heroes, remix CD, 'Remain'.

Here is the English translation:

"... Released last year, 'The Blood of Heroes' is an excellent album. Remain is The Blood Of Heroes remix album was also one of the best albums of last year.

These Metal albums have the perfect blend of dubstep, dark atmosphere and the inherent stiffness at the same time, although the shoegaze style of the album with melancholic parts was absolutely shocking and so peculiar.

FluiD also has some elements I just mentioned. His music oscillates between Dubstep, Metal, Dark Ambient, Noise, Hip-Hop and Industrial.

Loud, experimental music with hard parts. Do not miss your favorite track, relax while listening to the entire album on Bandcamp.

In particular, 'Disrupting the Ghost' is the track I would like to draw attention to, it is my favorite song on the album..."

The original post in Turkish, can be found here -
http://sonyudum.blogspot.com/2011/05/fluid-envisioning-abstraction-duality.html

PAS - Reconstruction (ALRN023)

Brooklyn, NY collective, PAS has just released 'PAS - Reconstruction' (ALRN023) on Alrealon Musique. Reconstruction features contributions from Alrealon Musique artists, Black Saturn, John 3:16, LAX, Zilmrah and myself.  The 8 song release sees PAS construct new tracks from the sonic debris of the aforementioned artists.

You can purchase Reconstruction directly from Alrealon Musique via our new store -
http://www.alrealon.co.uk/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=2&products_id=30

Listen to the track, 'Here Ing Voices', which features myself and Dave Tamura -

PAS - Here Ing Voices by Alrealon Musique

Chilean blog, Absenta Musical  has posted a review of 'Reconstruction',  here is the translation:

"When you close your eyes while listening to this album, thousands of images come into your mind. Each album, each soundtrack and each song reflects a different imaginary world. Most of the time, these images are related to the artwork/video work associated with the music, sometimes, it’s the music itself that creates these images.

When you listen to this new album by the collective from Brooklyn called PAS, it evokes strange and frightening images, as scary as the names of the tracks; these 8 tracks aren’t for everyone, of course. The most bizarre song (and maybe one of the strongest here) refers to a constant disillusion with some surprise (in the most positive sense of the word). The different rhythms and audio frequencies used in this album manage to get the listener's attention. In this way, we can say that ‘Reconstruction’ is more accessible than we could've imagined. It would have been easy for PAS to produce an extreme and obscure album. Instead, they have the desire to communicate with us. From one track to another, abstract elements take over more concrete sounds, for instance, listen to the two tracks ‘Sound of Thought in Motion’ and ‘Here Ing Voices’. In my opinion, they are both excellent tracks, creating dark and psychedelic images.

Elusive sounds and noises (I think my dogs could hear them sometimes) make reference to the real world and to a ‘reconstruction’ of the 90’s electronic dance scene. I’m thinking about acts like Eat Static or Sabres of Paradise mixed with the evil of albums by Thrill Kill Kult and Sheep on Drugs. The artists we mentioned can even be references for this album.

Another good thing about this album is that each track is unique and personal. The eight tracks (yes, unfortunately, only 8) can then only be interpreted by PAS and the associated artist that contributed to the track. You have the choice between tracks you are going to listen in your bed staring at infinity and songs you are going to dance on. This mix between these two types of tracks is spontaneous and natural and couldn’t have been otherwise. It gives this album its interesting side. Refreshing and original, this project isn’t another of these pop albums in which the direction and the time are given or the reason why and how this project can be..."

Cristobal Moya
reprinted courtesy of Absenta Musical
(p) (c) 2011
http://www.absentamusical.com/2011/02/pas-reconstruction.html

Watch a video of PAS and FluiD from their performance @ Spark - Festival of Electronic Music and Arts (Oct. 2010) -


PAS/FluiD live at Spark Festival 2010 from PAS Music on Vimeo.


Be sure to catch PAS on their upcoming European Tour.
For tour dates and other info, please check, the following:

MySpace - http://www.myspace.com/pas-music
Soundcloud - http://soundcloud.com/pas-music
Reverbnation - http://www.reverbnation.com/pasmusic

Listen to Two Tracks From 'Envisioning Abstraction: the Duality of FluiD' (ALRN008)

Dread Futures by FluiD

DH 1 by FluiD

Promo Video for 'Envisioning Abstraction: the Duality of FluiD'

Alrealon Music Promo for FluiD from PAS on Vimeo.

Produced by Robert Pepper of PAS

Obskure Magazine Reviews, 'Envisioning Abstraction: the Duality of FluiD'



French industrial music magazine, Obskure has written a review of 'Envisioning Abstraction: the Duality of FluiD' (ALRN008). Below is an excerpt from the review. The full review will be published in the Feburary 2011 issue.

"Right after a rough introduction, including feedbacks, cracklings and a powerful and rounded bass line, the FluiD’s expansionist world takes off. 'The Duality of FluiD' is presented first with a superb artwork that portrays the African continent repainted with the U.S. flag (the work is done by Trey Crim of Digitally Ruined Graphics).

The project started in Chicago (Christophe G. is originally from Los Angeles) and the industrial aspect of his music takes then a social meaning you can’t deny. The boundaries are pushed track after track to produce an intelligent and unclassifiable music. On one hand, you have a Trip-Hop coupled with the dirtiest Dub. Of course, some of you could think of Scorn ('The Absent Present'), but the guitars (always played in slow motion) provide a Rock/Heavy touch ('Froz n II'), downright Cold-Wave ('Parallel States') or Noise ('Iron Communique'), that will appeal to many listeners..."

Note : 80%
Sylvain Nicolino
http://www.obskuremag.net/category/obskuremag/

'Envisioning Abstraction: the Duality of FluiD' (ALRN008)

'Envisioning Abstraction: the Duality of FluiD' (AlRN008), CD released on 02.01.11

Front cover art, designed by Trey Crim of Digitally Ruined Graphics

Back cover art, designed by Trey Crim of Digitally Ruined Graphics



Inside cover art, designed by Trey Crim of Digitally Ruined Graphics



Alrealon Update 11.01.10

First up, is the latest podcast in our long running podcast series. This months podcast comes from Sascha Muller and is titled 'Mix it Up Mix'.

About Sascha:

"Sascha Müller aka Pharmacom start his career with djìng and producing in 1990. He was inspired by Projects like Kraftwerk, Tangerine Dream and stuff like Sven Väth played in his dj sets. The musical style reaches from ambient chill out, house and techno music in his own special way. His way of producing is the use old analog equipment in the same way as the newest Software in digital producing. The greatest thing for him is to create new soundcollages and wicked samples for his tracks. As a Dj he played in several european locations and events like love parade and thunderdome. At the moment he is also playing as a vj and is involved in multimedia productions with some other global video and grafic artists."


Look for Sascha's upcoming 'Move My Body' EP on Alrealon Music (release date 12.13.10).


We've also uploaded to our Soundcloud page with a track from the ARU meets FluiD release, 'The Sickness'

ARU meets FluiD - The Sickness by Alrealon Music


Last month Alrealon artists Zilmrah /O\ and Robert Pepper of PAS performed together at Silent Barn in NYC. You can view video of their performance here.




Other Releases from Alrealon Artists:

FluiD, PAS and Zilmrah /O\ feature on a newly released compilation from Babylon Projects, 'By the Rivers of Bablyon: Always/Forever',  

DJ Phys, mNIPK and Sascha Muller all have releases available from French techno label, Milligrid Records.

FluiD and Ghoul have a new split EP, 'Ghoul + FluiD' on Tundra Dubs, available here.

Ghoul has also done a new 30 min. mix, 'Vnholy Ground Vol. I' for Tundra Dubs. You can listen to the mix here. 


Current Alrealon Music Releases:

ARU meets FluiD - Fearless Empire Killers
LAX - Deep Water b/w cREEPYsHEEP (incl. remixes from Ghoul and FluiD)
mNIPK - Paul Auster's Tears
 
Upcoming Alrealon Music Releases:
 
FluiD - Duality 
PAS - Reconstruction (featuring contributions from Black Saturn, FluiD, John 3:16, LAX and Zilmrah /O\)
Sascha Muller - Move My Body
 

Alrealon Music Update 10.13.10

Several things are happening at Alrealon Music:

We're having a remix contest based around our joint release with DSMS, 'ARU meets FluiD - Fearless Empire Killlers'. The top 7 remixes will be released as part of 'ARU meets FluiD - Fearless Empire Killers (version)', in both digital and CDR formats.

For more info on the contest - http://alrealon.ownforum.org/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=71

Alrealon artists PAS and FluiD appeared together at Spark Festival in Minneapolis, MN. I detailed our weekend at Spark Festival in a previous post.


PAS/FluiD live at Spark Festival 2010 from PAS (Post Abortion Stress) on Vimeo.


In other PAS releated news, they will have a new release on Alrealon in early 2011. The release is titled PAS - Re-construction'. We're really excited about this release at is a collaborative effort between PAS and all Alrealon artists. More on the release, here - http://alrealon.ownforum.org/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=63
PAS currently have a new CD, 'Pure Energy Output Sessions'. It is available directly from PAS, via CD Baby -
http://www.cdbaby.com/Artist/PASPostAbortionStress

Brooklyn, NY musician/artist Zilmrah /O\ who did a podcast for us back in April of this year, will have a new full-length release available early next year. In the meantime you can hear a new track from Zilmrah /O\ as well as John 3:16 on the DSMS compilation, 'Psidronic'.

I also want to remind everyone of the Alrealon Music Forum and if you join our forum, you'll receive a download link for the free digital single, 'Machina - re/tooled'.

Current Alrealon Music Releases:

ARU meets FluiD - Fearless Empire Killers
LAX - Deep Water b/w cREEPYsHEEP (incl. remixes from Ghoul and FluiD)
mNIPK - Paul Auster's Tears

Alrealon Music

Some of you may or may not know, I co-run (with Philippe Gerber aka DJ Phys), the music label, Alrealon Music. I wanted to update everyone on what we're doing and on our new releases.

Our newest release is a joint release with the Iowa based music label DSMS, 'ARU meets FluiD - Fearless Empire Killers'. DSMS is releasing it as a 3" CDR (with full-color artwork) and Alrealon Music is releasing it digitally. 'ARU meets FluiD...'  is a collaboration between Aural Resuscitation Unit and FluiD.

Other releases now available, are two techno releases: the first from LaptopAcidXperience - 'Deep Water b/w cREEPYsHEEP',  available digitally here. The second from mNIPK - Paul Auster's Tears, available digitally here.

Each month we also feature a podcast from an Alrealon Music artist or an artist affiliated with Alrealon Music. This months podcast comes from DJ Restless, who also released an EP on Alrealon Music, earlier this year.

We have just started the Alrealon Music Forum. If you join our forum, you'll recieve a download link for the 'Machina - Re/tooled' single. The single is comprised of two remixes of the DJ Restless track 'Machina' by FluiD and DJ Phys.

For more info on Alrealon Music releases, artists and tour dates, please visit our website.

ARU meets FluiD - Fearless Empire Killers

Ahead of this Wednesday's (Sept. 15th) release of 'ARU meets FluiD - Fearless Empire Killers', the Dubuque Strange Music Society and Alrealon Music have made the entire release available for streaming. Also join FluiD, ARU and DSMS as they celebrate the release at Monk's Kaffe (Dubuque, IA.), on 09.15.2010.

LAX - cREEPYsHEEP (FluiD remix)

Alrealon Music has just released the new LaptopAcidXperience single, 'Deep Water' b/w 'cREEPYsHEEP'. The single features remixes from FluiD and Ghoul. Download available at all fine digital outlets.

BitCrushed @ Nan's Piano Bar, Davenport, IA.

BITCRUSHED, Wed., June 30, 2010, 10:00 pm to 2:00 am
Featuring:

DREAMLOGICC [Chicago - live pa] (Shiku Garu, tonAtom, Tonally)

http://soundcloud.com/dreamlogicc
http://www.myspace.com/dreamlogiccmusic


FluiD [Chicago - live pa] (Alrealon Music)

http://www.myspace.com/fluidemusique
http://simultaniety.blogspot.com/
http://soundcloud.com/fluidemusique


SLOWERSON [Chicago - dj set] (Heartbeats, Tonally)


GHOUL [QC - dj set] (Bitcrushed, Alrealon Music)

http://soundcloud.com/ghoul-1
http://www.myspace.com/ghoulbass


This event is FREE but donations for the travelling bands/artists will be accepted!
This is a 21+ event. Cheap drinks! Good vibes!

Remixes and Collaborations

It has been a busy 2010 so far and it doesn't look it's showing any signs of slowing down. I've been working on a number of remixes and collaborations. There are still more to come, along with the release of my CD, 'Envisioning Abstraction: the Duality of FluiD'.

* Ghoul - 'Warm' and 'Down' (FluiD remixes) - Part of a remix swap with the Iowa based dubstep producer. Should be out by years end on Tundra Dubs.

* Black Saturn vs. subduxtion - 'Cosmic Karma' - Written in collaboration with Black Saturn. Two new tracks, 'Conquering Echo' and 'Dreamer'. To be released on Alrealon Music in June.

* Jason Covelli - 'I Am Evil' (FluiD remix) - I completed three remixes of Jason's spoken-word piece. All three remixes are forthcoming on Human.Burial.Tapes.CDs. The plan is to release a limited edition CD by late July.

* Actors&Actresses - 'Quiet' (FluiD remix) - I recently completed two remixes of the track 'Quiet'. One is a downtempo/trip-hop/glitch mix and the other is a drum and bass mix. The plan as I understnad it is for The Mylene Sheath to release a 12" vinyl of the best remixes and a digital version which will include all the remixes the band received.

* LaptopAcidXperience - 'cREEPYsHEEP' and 'Deep Water' (FluiD remixes) -  Alrealon Music will be releasing a special version of the LAX single in Japan,which will include my two remixes. Release date is mid-September.

In the works, production work with SDSA and  a collaboration with Aural Resuscitaion Unit

Disrupting the Ghost, the video

Purchase the new single, 'Disrupting the Ghost b/w 'DH 1"

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'Disrupting the Ghost' (ALRN015)

http://alrealon.co.uk/alrn015.html

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