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Technology of Silence is a story about a post-nuclear city, a story about the people living in this city, a story about an ecological catastrophe, human madness, human fears and the eternal search for a goal in the loneliness. |
Year: 2007
Released: Kaos ex Machina (Poland, 05 March 2007), Heart Shaped Box prod. (Russia, 16 April 2007)
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Technology of Silence is a story about a post-nuclear city, a story about the people living in this city, a story about an ecological catastrophe, human madness, human fears and the eternal search for a goal in the loneliness. They came out from the silence... |
Year: 2007
Released: Kaos ex Machina (Poland, 23 June 2007), Enough Records (Portugal, 27 June 2007)
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"Call of City" follows up the story about Post-Nuclear City. But it is more melancholic and more retro. Close your eyes and feel that City is calling you. Hear the whisper of the reactor and lament of dead harps. |
Year: 2008
Released: Kaos ex Machina (Poland, 02 August 2008)
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Cinematic industrial dark ambient of post-nuclear cities. "The Squad" continue the story from previous albums. |
Year: 2010
Released: Enough Records (Portugal, 23 December 2010), Ionium Records (Germany, 15 February 2011)
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Review at The Muse In Music (2010, December)
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A track from compilations "Riders Of Postapokalipsis" (2007), "In Prison" (2008). This track was created in 2007.
A track from compilation "Liminality II - Okaeri: The Silent Hill Inspired Album" (2009, January). This track was created in December 2008.
Featuring: Roto Visage, Dossier Lomokome, Burma Project, Hoarfrost, Nebel, RobertoMaldoror Manfredini, Belltonesuicide, Schlafwagen, Tiara, HeiligesLicht, I.V.Lab, Background Projection, Sektionine, Gabinetto di Guerra,Karsten Hamre, Rapeshower, Technology of Silence, Abandoned Asylum, K.,CausaliDox, Mrcien, Voyvoda, Retro.
Label "Kaos ex Machina", Poland (2007, May)
Track: Follow Her Trace
Label "Invasion Records", Switzerland (2007, January)
Featuring: Clinic Brothers, Er| Naem, Fellirium, Gasgruel, KAVver., Mr. Somnabula, Os1R!s, SinFearSilence, Soaring Man, Technology of Silence, Wialenove, Y-Ring.
Liminality follow the traditions of Akira Yamaoka' music and Broken Notes project.
Label "Liminal Recs", Russia (2007, September)
Featuring: Irokez, T Error 404, Fornax, U.N.I.T., Technology of Silence
Label "NBKlines", Russia (2007, November)
Tracks: Checking, Rebellion (apocalypse mix)
Label "Invasion Records", Switzerland (2008, January)
Featuring: Chaos Control, Edge of Lament, Fellirium, KAVver., macabro, Mr. Somnabula, Sinfearsilence, Soaring Man, Technology of Silence, Wialenove, Y-Ring
Liminality: The Silent Hill Inspired Album is series of albums inspired by works of Akira Yamaoka and Silent Hill. The project is sort of Broken Notes successor and is created by Liminal Recs net-label's musicians. By this moment 2 albums were released: Liminality: The Silent Hill Inspired Album (2007) and Liminality - The Silent Hill Inspired Album: Revision (2008 ). Today we are glad to present a new chapter of the series - Liminality II: Okaeri (2009). This compilation also features trip-hop, ambient, piano compositions e.t.c. All that we love Akira Yamaoka works for.
Tracks: In Memory Of, Night Butterflies. Dead and Beautiful, She Never Was And Never Will Be
Label "Liminal Recs", Russia (2009, January)
As everyone is no doubt aware, Japan was hit with a major natural disaster on March 11th. The country's citizens are in dire need of humanitarian aid.
The netlabel scene is based on the ideas of charity, moral action, and global awareness, so it is only fitting that we produce a compilation with those principles in mind to assist those who are in urgent need. It just needed to be organized - and so I put out a call to musicians and netlabels to help.
The response to the project was immense and immediate. Music submissions, offers of help with various aspects of the project, and plenty of encouragement began to pour into my inbox. In fact, there were so many submissions that I had to assemble a team to evaluate them.
Numerous netlabels stepped forward with offers to post the compilation on their own sites. In doing this, we are overcoming the traditional limitations of physical media and its distrubition. There is no label of origin; every participating label is a part of one greater effort.
Talented artists submitted their artwork for every aspect of the project. Every image for this entire project - the logo, the cover art, website backgrounds - was given freely to this effort. Even the name of the project was selected by the community.
I am overjoyed to present this compilation to the world. I hope that this will be an example of what can be done with free music and free art - that we don't have to profit from our work to do good things in this world. No one involved in this project will receive even the smallest amount of monetary compensation for their work here.
This is charity in its truest sense. This is for Japan.
Kevin Stephens
Lead Coordinator for The Sun Will Rise
Track: Million Eyes Of Dew
Label "Inter-Netlabel for Japanese Relief", Worldwide (2011, April)
Strongly progressive industrial music that alternates both rhythm andharmony in elegance and polished completion, both frightening andseducing. |
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Artist: Technology of Silence
Title: S/T
Label: Kaos Ex Machina
Genre: EBM / Dark Ambient / Experimental
Track Listing:
Some months ago I was surfing the net and found a Russian band website lead by one man called Denis Romanov, the guy barely let him be seen, covering his face with a gas mask and tight in gothic like costume. Pictures also depict the usual industrial landscapes with decadent architecture and wasted machinery and the sort, very cyber, very sordid, sure. The name of the band is Technology of silence; the samplers were there, one click distance, for the glimpse of a second doubted to listen them, but then read something interesting about the description of the music that immediately opened my senses for the test mood. Tchernobyl, although not directly referenced the indications on this issue and current Russian empire debacle are evident. A post industrial perspective on this overly serious issue simply couldn´t be cheap music. I was right. But was not surprised thought, just because this probes the thesis that Russians bands (In all aspects, genres, music styles and all the rest) are the leaders of the world scene today, period.
This guy is in my opinion a genius (hope not infatuate his ego with this); Hard worker, avant gardist, extreme, original... want something more? It is simply incredible that no famous labels has released his works or have not noticed him, moreover considering the awful and extremely mediocre acts that grows these days like fungus in the dung and otherwise the worrisome decrease of the sales presented lately in the industry. Want a reason? You are all lazy and stupid. Get original bands, get quality, search the good stuff & destroy the clones. Rant aside; this band has all these characteristics more than enough that is why is being reviewed here at HH. Technology of silence has released several albums, this eponymous one is his.... and was released by the Polish label Kaos Ex Machina. Get this cd at all costs, its totally recommended.
The music itself is mainly a hybrid of rhythmic industrial and dark ambient excellently inserted where parts are equally dosed in perfect portions. Based in strong cinematic construction, the work sets the script for an out of words narration of the post modern apocalypse that comes from technology and its out of control wandering in pursuit of «Gewalt» (German term that designates both power & violence in just one term). The musical narration is very variable and uses such huge amount of elements and techniques in such good taste and opportunity that the best way to approach to it is describing each song and the corresponding development through the work.
Opener is a distorted siren like scream dark ambient laceration accompanied by clangs, disturbing and phantasmagorical, setting the image of a ghostly place where nothing but ruins and fear reigns, then a very subtly a tribal beat start to announce the skeleton structure of this terrible place and the history of its past ending in some kind of shamanic rhythm influenced ceremony. Past the entrance some drones assault the siren distortion and more industrial rhythmical experimentation takes place adding additional tension to the piece, a sweet piano dirge appears with melancholic tone while field recording from rain serves as background, the desolation is enormous, despair and fear are projected through the subsequent incessant beat accompaniment that alternates synth lines and drone penetration, then when everything is about to explode comes the interruption. «Return to memories» opens a more aggressive stance, progressing from the simple accelerated tribal beat presented at the intro sided with an increasingly intense high pitched drone to then disjoint everything into a short cacophony where all elements re-accommodate into a break beat sequence that morphs itself into some kind of militar march maintaining the force and script direction of the musical narration.
This song is really good and describes perfectly the rhythm style and character of the band. A more relaxed piece comes along. «Influx of blood» breaks the tension with a very gelid drone with relaxing effects, more organic feeling and break beat rhythmic accompaniments marks the parade; it has a narcotic effect with the hypnotic conformation of the beat. Next song throws a set of sampled guitar riffs that leads its traces to aggro-industrial influences alternated with beat break sections and the echoed trace of the infamous siren scream in the background. Force and fear comes around, the listener is at the entire disposition of the music as the album reach its peak. A more industrial electro approach sets the pace of the subsequent song; «Fever» where lines gets demarked by the voracious beat sequence that accelerates the heart rate in manic progression with backwards synth lines to disorient the mind while some additional analog drone leads the melody. Both following songs «The curved» and «The curved theme» keeps the rhythmic break beat intensity but adding more dark ambient influx (specially the latest one) rhythm constantly vary and twist while the basic drone circumvent around like a suffering ghost. «The curved theme» has an exponential experimental approach, presenting a variety of elements intertwined (distorted music box with a childlike melody, analog synth pulse, live machine recordings) that transmit a sensation of atmospheric insanity. Aggro-electro recaptures the attention with the intense piece «Neon death» and the following «Neon reincarnation» that keeps the beat rate at 120bpm.
The work progresses as develops, not only the songs has schizoid rhythm changes and intermezzos but also constantly surprise the listener with its categorical ability to adventure in strange mixes, combinations and collages, this is applicable for the whole work, better to listen than to explain. Anyway, the finale, condensed in the subsequent set of five songs is a lot less aggressive and presents a peak descent from the previous rhythmic climax, diving into more industrial ambientalism, Examples on this are: Self titled «Technology of silence» with its slow beat sequence full of distant voices converging and creating a whole wall of mumblings and next song following similar principle «Post nuclear dawning» the more dark ambient influenced song from the work, with vertiginous drone layers seconding the mysterious voice sampler, darkness descending. «Affectionate song of radiation» and penultimate «Heatmain» are at the valley of calmness. Appealing to a more simplistic approach, simple piano chords aided by dark atmospherics and then a simple beat with down tempo radiations ending with the phantasmagoric Music box playing the repetitive tune for the very last time and ending abruptly, exactly as death may come or as a bad dream may end.
Strongly progressive industrial music that alternates both rhythm and harmony in elegance and polished completion, both frightening and seducing doesn´t take long to posses the listener with an inescapable grip. The general overview of the work leaves space for multiple industrial derivate styles converging: Electro, aggro, beat break intrusions, experimentalism and dark subtly located dark ambient atmospherics, very varied, in excellent timing and mixing. The musical transition are always surprising as the rhythm changes are unusual and unexpected, musically diverse and incomparable the name of Technology of silence cannot be sided with anyone, defining a unique character that cannot be traced and most probably should become a reference for the future of the modern industrial crew. Enough gratitude and luck for this musical seer.
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Artist: Technology of Silence
Title: Out From The Silence
Label: Kaos Ex Machina
Genre: EBM / Experimental / Dark Ambient
Track Listing:
Denis Romanov is the man behind this awesome Rusky project. A band that is slowly introducing into the high ranks and elite of industrial formations. With three albums edited in Heart shaped box and Kaos ex Machina labels, Two compilations and tremendous tenacity, this guy is creating quite a reputation on its own. All well deserved. His influences rank from many different ranks. Industrial being the primal but also capable to blend it with very original dark ambient insanity, electro and techno synthetic form intensity and many other actual references pertaining the genre as neo-classical and tribal constructions. This is a band to appreciate and admire.
More focused in atmospherics than the previous album this one deals with all the topics, harmonic imaginary and experimental speculations that gave the precedent one its fame. There is an evident sensation of sound investigation and further development in where the author whims to play variable dark ambient atmospherics with very dynamic and out of the norm sequence formality, as for example clangs, samplers, obscure synth lines spiced with ominous analog drones accompanied by strong rhythmic emphasis as usual with beat pulsations and break beat dirges. A good example on this more rhythmic direction are the songs: «Forgotten», strongly progressive piece that mix both atmospherics with a crescendo of rhythmic quality, starting in a basic stance of subtle analog distortion to then proceed to a drone pulsation continuum, two different drones one of a electric aggro guitar and some metallic shrieking accompanied by basic rhythm box beat compose the core that later evolves into a frantic electric drum jungle blast. Important to notice that the atmosphere is always preserved conforming a sinister and desolated landscape that doesn´t abandon the intensity of the rhythmic conformation. Another remarkable rhythmic song is «Velo-city» again starting from a very similar concept and evolving in a mix of techno-electro raving with occasional tribal details included that gets its ranks way up high for the listener. Excellent song, perfect for both the dance floor and the passive listening. Songs: «Experiment» and «House of the murderer» contains EBM accommodations on military industrial, without losing the typical EBM beat and orientation, this is something to highlight and perhaps reminds a bit on famous Will act back in the 90´s.
More modern tendencies appear as well in the zenith of creation that is represented in this work as for example neo-classical undertones in the «Light of the invisible» with incredible core of drones resembling celestial trumpets with pompous immensity and vastness. Kind of Wagnerian/Prokofiev feel into it. Or the incredible two pieces «Night butterflies. Dead and beautiful» with the Downtempo jungle sequence following the melancholic piano melody and the coldness projected in the background drones. Similar way runs for «When machines fall in love» but instead of wind instruments there is angelic violin samplers, reminding of the good old days of Delirium. As a matter of fact the following song appeals to the use of Gregorian chant samplers, corrupted by the industrial rhythms and analogue distortions along the way. In perspective seems like the more ambient induced songs serve as passage for the more rhythmic ones, setting the pace and the background for the stage they push for. All this is conformed imperceptibly for the listener, slowly submerging him into the trance that conforms the concept that conforms the «Out from the silence» experience. I am really impressed with this work and recommend all along. The variety and unpredictability of Technology of silence has simply no paragon, not only in the current world scene but also in the past of electronic music, its one of a kind and deserves a place in the future classics of the genre.
When the time comes for strong beat orientation the work doesn´t suffer from lack of them equally full of dark emotions and fully dosaged frenzy madness. Although apparently simple in construction the sound progression of this band demands audition above all in order to experiment its power and the quality of its subtlety. Very easy to listen, very hard to analyse because of its complexity and diversity. It is a work and a band to recommend to anyone interested in the reinvention of modern electronic and rhythmic industrial renaissance.
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Call Of City presents us with a rather familiar style of industrial that is mixed with a sort of adult contemporary pop style. |
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Artist: Technology of Silence
Title: Call Of City
Label: Kaos Ex Machina
Genre: Industrial / Ambient
Tracklist:
Call Of City presents us with a rather familiar style of industrial that is mixed with a sort of adult contemporary pop style. Comparisons could be made to certain eras of Coil. There are a lot of songs on this release. My copy skips a lot and it is difficult to get it to play on my player, which is admittedly very old. It also makes that crusty sort of speaker sound that occasionally happens when CDs are burned the wrong way. I find that this adds a bit to the pleasurable aspects of listening to this CD. This adult contemporary thing lasts quite some time, until track 6. Titled «Nostalgia of Dead Restaurant Harps», this is a weird and disjointed series of haphazardly places melodic lines married jarringly to mellow beats. This continues for quite a few more songs.
Surprisingly, a Manchester Trip Hop vibe takes over on much of the middle part of the record. Pleasant enough, the coffee-shop atmosphere is light-years away from the initial promise of Industrial music. As the record goes on, it becomes very clear to the listener that they will not be encountering anything that they have not already encountered before. Ok, I walked out of the room and ate a sandwich, and now we are at track 10, «Posthumously». This one is quite nice, with strange vocal samples, a dark melody, and very tasteful drums. It segueways very nicely into a Steve Riech-esque piano loop that is transcendent and beautiful.
The last section of this record sticks with this more mellow vibe, «Sedation Of The Light» even recalling the music somewhat of Phil Collins´ «In The Air Tonight». Often the songs seem somewhat disjointed and forced, and this record is all over the place in terms of style and mood. The most focused piece in this endeavor is «Posthumously», and most of the other tracks come off as throwaway or filler. Although very pleasant and accomplished, I found little to connect with emotionally from this disc.
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Now you can download "A Boll With Performing Fleas"! This track was created in January 2009.
A track from compilation "Liminality II - Okaeri: The Silent Hill Inspired Album". And you can download it! This track was created in December 2008.
The Squad is an unexpected, complex and rewarding piece of art. |
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Artist: Technology of Silence
Title: The Squad
Label: Enough Records
Genre: Industrial / Ambient
Tracklist:
Keysian and Keynsian industrial gorgeousness from Russia. Technology of Silence is the one-man alias of Denis Romanov (and a great one, too: thinking about it for too long will dilate the eyes). The Squad is Romanov´s fourth studio album.
The first act best fits the liner notes: «Cinematic industrial dark ambient of post-nuclear cities». Second track «Trap Signal» is a haunted landscape-turned relentless march (for instrumental music, the narratives here are clear and succinct). The following «No Tickets» is pure Carl Sagan, with redshifts in place of echoes, and the sound of terrifying cosmological questions in place of simple menace. Next, the high point of the work: «Wasteland Nomad». The trek implied by the title saunters past stark percussion, didgeridoo, and swells of industrial wind. The walk becomes a hunt with a blistering synthesizer riff, a kinetic snare beat, and processed chorus.
After a time you realize the album has taken a bit of an ambient turn. The work is still beautiful, but this is an odd development, considering the play-it-loud-or-not-at-all ethic of the opening material. For all of the apocalyptic overtures, both the title and the composition of «Million Eyes of Dew» have a decidedly organic feel. Dance hall number «Red Sniper» feels tragic and psychologically troubled, until synth percussion noises fill in as short bursts of rifle fire. «Sexmachine» seems to explain the odd cover art: manufacturing noises sit in as percussion, melody and voice. The Squad is an unexpected, complex and rewarding piece of art.
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Optimalerweise genießt man das Album natürlich in Ruhe und mit geschlossenen Augen... |
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Artist: Technology of Silence
Title: The Squad
Label: Ionium Records
Stil: Ambient / Industrial
Tracklist:
Technology Of Silence ist das Projekt des Russen Denis Romanov, eines Künstlers, der sich nun schon seit nunmehr sieben Jahren in philosophischer und sozialkritischer Weise den Themen dieser Welt widmet. Sein Sprachrohr ist die Musik, seine Schöpfung eine Art postapokalyptische Welt, in die er die Zuhörer mittels Klangkonstrukten entführt, um auf diesem Wege die Missstände unserer bizarren Wirklichkeit aufzuzeigen. Nachdem sein viertes Album The Squad bereits im vergangenen Jahr via Enough Records veröffentlicht wurde, hat nun Ionium Records das 17-Track-Epos noch einmal neu unter einer Creative Commons License zur Verfügung gestellt.
Ja ihr habt richtig gelesen! Ganze siebzehn Kompositionen tummeln sich auf dem neuen Werk von Technology Of Silence, wobei die Tracklänge von knapp anderthalb Minuten bis hin zu über acht Minuten variiert. Innerhalb dieses umfangreichen Epos erzählt der Künstler erneut aus jener Stadt namens Technology Of Silence, welche die Basis seiner verstörenden und mitreißenden Geschichten darstellt. Wobei das spannende an der ganzen Sache darin liegt, dass es sich hierbei um reinen Ambient-Sound ohne jegliche Lyrics handelt. Dennoch beinhaltet jedes Stück eigene Nuancen, in jeder Sequenz wird eine Szene beschrieben, die wiederum alle zusammen eine Art muskalischen Roman darstellen.
Dabei bedient sich Denis einem breiten, elektronischen Soundspektrum. Vor allem Industrial und Minimal mögen als Inspirationsquellen gedient haben, längst aber wurden diese Grundgenres um zahlreiche Aspekte und Visionen erweitert, der sich kein Korsett aufdrücken lässt.
Wie sicherlich zu erahnen ist, macht das den Zugang zu The Squad zunächst mal nicht leicht. Vielen Hörern dürfte der schwärzliche Sound oftmals eher bizarr, durch die vielen ruhigen Passagen auch gelegentlich langweilig erscheinen. Und doch findet gerade der Musikästhet als solcher in den Komplexen Tracks definitiv immer wieder interessante, mitunter gar geniale Ideen, an denen er sich erfreuen kann. Optimalerweise genießt man das Album natürlich in Ruhe und mit geschlossenen Augen, lediglich vielleicht die Namen der Stücke zur Han, um sich so der tatsächlich vorhandenen «Story» hinzugeben - Leider werden dazu in der heutigen Zeit wohl nur noch die wenigsten Zeit und Muße finden.
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Now you can download albums "Technology of Silence", "Out From The Silence" and "Call Of City" from technologyofsilence.com section DISCOGRAPHY.