SATELLITE HIVE
The new album from Mitoma.
NOW AVAILABLE ON BANDCAMP AND DADDY TANK RECORDS
Limited Edition CD (100 copies) and Digital Formats (MP3/FLAC/AIFF)
Satellite Hive is the second album from Mitoma, one which sees the
Scottish duo welding together disparate elements of electronica to form a
beautifully contorted album. Subtle tones shift through airless vacuums
and considered glitches spark in and out of existence to unbalance
straight up beats. An album that twists and turns through light and dark
and sturm und drang to confuse and pacify you while pushing electronica
ever onwards.
Tracklist:
01. [inert] 01:57
02. Rawling 4851 04:39
03. Chiral 04:54
04. Kotecha 06:54
05. Swamp Monitor 03:56
06. Residual 06:47
07. Alpha Station 08:31
08. 1 D xop [Mitoma Remix] 07:07
09. 7th Fall 07:46
10. Satellite Hive 06:18
11. Chakici 05:20
Visit http://www.mitoma.bandcamp.com
Released by Daddy Tank Records [UK]
CAT. NO [DADD06] - Licensed by Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0
Review (Igloomag)
The second album from this Scottish duo sees them turning off the lights and casting shadows on industrialized bass-electronics. With plenty of albums to sift through these days, it’s a welcome treat having Satellite Hive blend its aural stimuli against leftfield bass, beats and melodic brushing. But is the genre now becoming a bit over saturated with the glitch’n twitch of electrified rhythms? Can Mitoma bridge the void of experimentation when so many others have taken shape? It’s a challenging time as artists must constantly innovate, recreate and unfold new plateaus of thought in order to cause any kind of ripple in the media. Mitoma seem to be doing just that, and it’s more of a tidal wave on this sixty-five minute collection.
The difference with Mitoma is their infused microcosms of digitized debris—take “Swamp Monitor,” “Seventh Fall,” “Inert” and “Chakici” as prime examples—these slices of grittiness offer a detoxified slowdown as its siblings punctuate the ears. Elsewhere, as evidenced “Residual,” time shifts to that of exp-electro, buzzing warmth and an aptitude for distorted bass emergence (sort of a hybrid of Einoma and Randomform). It all seems to gel together for duo, an outfit that blends in with like-minded cohorts like Detroit Underground, Buried In Time and Lovethechaos. Although the title track inhibits much of the same landscape as Autechre designed for Draft 7.30, each piece molds a new face for abstract electronics and definitely rests on solid footing. Letting this one unfold its rugged charm and subliminal forces may just be the link between post-industrial and raw electronic data blasting. A solid effort that will effortlessly make a dent in your library in the long term.