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01. Isabella - I'm Laughing
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02. Isabella - Roll Doll
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03. Isabella - Mnesia
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04. Isabella - Organ
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05. Isabella - Funny To Meet You
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06. Isabella - The Harm I Dream For You
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07. Isabella - Take One And Two
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08. Isabella - Send
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09. Isabella - Lap Talk
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10. Isabella - Through The Kitchen Window
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11. Isabella - Mind Tear
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12. Isabella - Hypnic Jerk
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ARTIST
ISABELLA
TITLE
Melody Depleted
FORMAT
2LP
LABEL
IDEAL RECORDINGS
CATALOG #
IDEAL 188LP
IDEAL 188LP
GENRE
ELECTRONIC
RELEASE DATE
11/19/2021
At long last, Boston's
Isabella Koen
delivers her long-in-the-making debut album of raving mutant body music, trance riffs, and industrial synth topographies forged with raw and brooding industrial sound design that marks her out among N. America's most interesting new producers of electronic music. Big tip if yr into
Jasss
,
Helena Hauff
,
Gesloten Cirkel
,
AFX
... Spanning proper techno artillery, trance riffs, and noise excursions,
Melody Depleted
expands on the ruffcut but classy ideas put forth on her tapes and 12"s for the likes of Peder Mannerfelt Production, Börft, and Jacktone over the past half-decade. It serves a broad but singular showcase of her ability to generate club punishing rhythms, barely-tamed electronic noise and surprisingly sensitive ambient space probes that revel in electronic music's capacity to evoke fine spectra of technoid feelings with a say it-without-saying-it instrumental finesse. In an emotive arc that takes in crude, rush-y rave futurism ("I'm Laughing") through to dark, bolshy industrial tekkers ("The Harm That I Dream For You") and an outstanding nine minute finale of deep distance ambient hypnagogia ("Hypnic Jerk"), Isabella's first album most deftly transposes a sense of pre-Millennial late '90s techno warehouse dread into a world dealing with its own register of worries. And like the work of Jasss,
Nkisi
, or Helena Hauff, Isabella proves highly adept at translating the most vital, if elusive, aspects of her reference points with a totally fearless, up-to-date but timeless swerve. Big hitters like the
Peder Mannerfelt
-esque breakbeat techno ballistics of "Roll Doll", the wide-eyed, doomy trample of "Organ" and the
Stingray
-meets-
Colin Stetson
styles of "Take One And Two" share space with full on EBM techno boosters in "Send" and "Mind Tear", while the roiling synth noise of "Mnesia" and the
Drexciya
n organism of "Through The Kitchen" diffract her vision into adjacent areas of experimentation that make for a murkily transfixing album experience rather than a collection of rave tools. It's a dead gritty course for lovers of electronic dance music that gets direct to the feet and leaves bits between your teeth. Cover design by
Philip Marshall
. Mastered and cut at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin. Edition of 300.
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