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Can avant-garde electronica be emotional? Full of feelings? In a genre that is almost completely filled with cold, robotic sounds and sinister scifi atmospheres, Marcus Maeder succeeds in letting some emotions come through the surface of frozen atmospheres and non-lineair abstraction. It doesn't help to get the temperature any warmer, because whatever the emotions represent, they are the opposite of happiness. This makes Quiconque, which means "anyone", a cold and sombre album. Desolate is the right word. Distorted soundscapes get disturbed by sudden explosions of electronic noise, while underneath lays a foundation of a deep, dark drone. Sounds appear, dissappear and reappear on an irregular basis. Nothing is certain, except the known fact that there isn't any room for happiness. Sometimes a steady rhythm drops by, as if it wants to take us to an other place. At moments like this, hope tries to get through, but without any chance of succes. But is Quiconque such a bad place to live then? I think not. Marcus Maeder arrives at places which Biosphere never dared to explore, while Richard D. James was too busy being light and funny. Welcome to another undiscovered country.
http://www.kindamuzik.net/recensie/marcus-maeder/quiconque/1555/
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