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Artist:	ITO, MARIEL
Title:	Decryptor EP
Label:	CONNAISSEUR RECORDINGS (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	CNS 006EP

"Mariel Ito is the other half of rising young minimal wonderer Eric Estornel -- better known as Maetrik. His secondary persona Mariel Ito is a representation of the broken and chaotic inner workings of an electro operator. An IDM emulator with an electro responder. Most of the time very analog yet very digital. Futuristic yet deep and personal. Forward thinking yet backwards evolving. Many descriptions, all of which perfectly describe the idea behind the birth of such an electronic entity."

Artist:	ITO, MARIEL
Title:	My Cyborg Depths
Label:	SCSI RECORDS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	ID 019CD

"Mariel Ito's debut album spans styles with the aplomb we've come to expect from Eric Estornell -- but futuristic electro remains high on the agenda, dope jams and reduced, effortlessly minimal party music. 'Syndrome' messes with portions of Richard Burton's War of the Worlds narration to great effect -- paranoia and claustrophobia intrude on a banging, jacking electro rhythm. 'Satisfied Death' seems to pick up from the tender intricacy of 2005's Tiny Destructor, originally a bonus track on the CD of Casi Profundo and set to be Eric's next single for Treibstoff early in January 2006. A churning bass, celestial strings and an utterly balanced and beautiful sense of harmony emerge from this tune. 'Remorse Attack' works within the glottal stops of classic electro, again the production is shocking, and advances us way beyond the retro stylings of many contemporaries, no doubts, we're deep into a whole new thing here. 'Finally' crushes and squashes its beat, and its an epic coda to a hugely satisfying album."

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