Parametric Delay’s bubbly electronic visions of childhood

Parametic Delay - Love Song Before Sleep (NS035) (nk082)

The best way to describe this release is to paraphrase something our lead vocalist once said onstage in-between songs at a live gig: “Nice place, lotsa bubbles.”

Parametric Delay’s EP on the No-Source netlabel and the Nowaki Net Label is all light beats, flittering melodic lines on wispy thin synths, and bubbles. Lots of rainbow-colored bubbles flying in random patterns everywhere. There is just a hint of the sinister in these arrangements (which draws a host of similarities with early music by Air and Plone), but as a whole, the EP is meant to encapsulate the innocence and bright-eyed optimism of children by creating modern lullabies. Even the titles of their tracks seek to exude child-like wonder: “Drizzle Ice,” “Love Song Before You Sleep.”

It’s sweet and sugary. And at 5 songs long, it’s the perfect dessert after a lifetime spent listening to the bitter, psychotic ramblings in a lot of music these days.

Listen to a sample song below: “Depict the Dream” by Parametic Delay. Track 3 on the EP.

About the Artist:

Parametic Delay is two-person electronic group from Malang, East Java (Indonesia) who make music using Ableton Live, Casio mini keyboards, noise boxes and funny toys.

Details:

• Download Parametic Delay’s Love Song Before Sleep on their No-Source netlabel page.
• Parametric Delay’s artist bio.
• Parametric Delay’s Facebook page.

The Dark Horror of a Fictional Soundtrack – Maujud

 

Adit Bujbunen Al Buse - Maujud OST

Have you ever downloaded music from countries whose language you don’t understand? If you’re a regular on AudioStylites then be prepared for this to happen to you often. And pleasantly.

Here’s a gem from Indonesian graphic designer and sound designer Adit Bujbunen Al Buse. The EP is a 9-track, 27-minute soundtrack to a fictional horror film entitled Maujud. In it, he juxtaposes rock and swing jazz with industrial white noise, spitting sounds, musique concrete, distorted guitar riffs, spoken word, mechanical reverberations and even snippets of bossa nova guitar. On several tracks he collaborates with 4 other artists elsewhere in the world.

The overall effect, rather than being a disunified mess, is actually a united body of downtempo and sound art that would be perfect for a horror movie. Or simply a sleepless night of fevered dreams.

Track by Track

Track 3 “Gothesque and the Pond of Thousand Sad Faces” is a lazy downtempo track mixing female spoken word samples with a creepy drum track and a simple piano melody. Nightmare sequence? Poetry while under a trance? Theme music for serial killers? All of the above.

Track 6 is nothing but a male vocal chant over a drone and effects.

Track 9, “Eulogi Arsenikum,” is composed by Cholil and remixed by Adit Bujbunen Al Buse. The plucked guitar motif moves forward on a downtempo drum pattern laced with audio samples from news and TV programs.

Track 5 “Unfinished Business” is my favorite with its swing jazz feel and excellent bass guitar solo (probably by collaborator and director Danif Pradana).

Links
Download the entire EP on a single zip file. [38 MB]

Release page on Internet Archive.

Adit Bujbunen Al Buse on MySpace.

Netlabel YesNo on Internet Archive.