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REVIEWS
Deeply textured and lush constructions sound like they were made from neither traditional instruments or keyboards. As all the elements were provided by one artist and manipulated by the other, who knows what these could have started out as. The track Zhopa is repeated in 3 different themes and is the backbone to the other pieces here. A deep rumbling piece to set your spine straight, or to cause it to ooze. A very complete, mature and interesting release!
Don Poe - Muteelation.com, 12/10/2005
I defintely enjoyed this release. It's going on the playlist for sure! Wonderful minimal ambient structures to take you to that oh so comfortable place.
phoenelai, 12/13/2004
Zeromoon's record manager Jeffrey Surak aka Violet and Rechord together come up with a 3" featuring no less than six tracks. Those excellent compositions range from the mechanical and occult tracks Blossoms Decay and Return to pieced featuring organic dark earthquake-like dronescapes
(for instance the title track). This co-operation resulted in a superb release which could have had the full-length format.
Phosphor Magazine - http://www.xs4all.nl/~phosphor, 11/27/2004
A more organic Violet greets us on his latest mp3-only release, "Zhopa." This is another in a long line of collaborations performed by Violet (AKA Jeff Surak, who runs the Zeromoon label). On "Zhopa," Surak took samples provided by Andreas Tilliander and further processed them in addition to adding in his own, original work. The results are fantastic. Over the course of 23 minutes, you are subjected to a whirlwind of electronic ramblings juxtaposed with melodic, treated synthesizer tones. "A Hole" takes digitally processed electronic signals and works them into a rhythmic, white-noise laden pulse. On top of this, Surak puts down layer upon layer of synths that sound like they're being fed through an echo chamber. This is a wind tunnel in post-Soviet Russia. It's industrial and beautiful. The longest track on "Zhopa" is also the best. "Bipolar Apsects of the Daily Grind" clocks in at just over seven minutes. It slowly and steadily builds into an ethereal supernova. The opening bass blips are eventually overrun by blaring ambient walls of sound until those blips are gone for good. It's like rising through the clouds in slow motion, and once you are face-to-face with the sun, its blinding. This track alone makes it worth the effort to download this. "Blossoms Decay and Return" is the most organic piece on "Zhopa." Using high-frequency digital glitches in conjunction with droning, rotating synths, Violet creates something that sounds like life on a moss covered forest floor. Wailing voices ascend through the dead leaves and rise into the air. "Zhopa" is one of the best releases I've heard from Surak's Violet project thusfar. The added tangible, or natural, elements add another dimension to this project that I welcome with open arms. I can't wait to hear what his next collaboration has to offer.
RB @ foxy digitalis, 8/12/2004
For their joint effort, Tilliander send raw sound material to Surak and the latter transformed them into six pieces of indeed minimalistic music. As Rechord, Tilliander is more the ambient than techno guy and that is shown in this music. Transformed and distorted ambient drones with occassional dashes of rhythm, such as in 'Bipolar Aspects Of The Daily Grind'. Yet I must say that these tracks were ok, but not really great. I am not sure wether this has to do with the original material or with the final result, but I have a feeling a little bit more could have been done, like they are not finished or may need alternative treatments.
Frans de Waard (vital), 6/30/2004
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