June 2013
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Sentient Beings
Simple
Wanderers
3 Sides of the Same Coin
A Year of Wednesdays
About That Time
Agent Alvin
All Red Cables
Always & For Real
An-jel-ka
Annabel Fay
Artificial Light
As For Now
Ashleigh Southam
Audible 3
Audio Empire
Behind The I
Between The Spaces
Billion
Blue Skies
Bunker Talk
Cat & Bird
Chatter
Circa Scaria
Circle Of The Sun
City Chorus
City In Exile
Contimental Drift
Coral
Culture Tunnels
Do You Just Want Me To Watch You?
Drama Queen
East
El Toroloco
Ella Songs
Expand/Contract
February Humidity EP
From The Back Of The Sun
Great Escape
Happy Accidents
Hearts EP
In Swings The Tide
In The Pink
Intermetallica
Isn't It Time You Thought About Something More Than What Makes You Happy?
Journey (Aere'anga)
Love and Such
Love In Motion
Master
Masterous Coloundraful
Matariki
Maybe Later
Moments of Clarity
Music for Sleep & Creativity
Myriad
No Come Down
Null And Void EP
Obey
Oh, Colour EP
One Day Over
Our New Life Above The Ground (Double Disc)
Our Place
Pacific Voyage
Peace Of Mind
Play Banjo
Reasons For Voyaging
Shanks' Pony
Stolen Hill
Thank You To The Monsters
The Best Kept Secret
The Best: Polyfonk
The Edge Of The World
The Fourth
The Higher Key
The Indifferent Velvet Void
The Lake
The Music EP
The Space Between
The Way Down
These Cities, Our Graves
Thinking Room
This Is Me
Three Feathers
Through The Years
Traces Of Silver
Traffic In Gold
Traveller
Treble & Reverb
Tuia
Twin Coast Remixes
Walk On By
We Are The Dead
Whaea
Who Let the Drunk Sing
Who’s Most Lost
Avotor: Billion
By Mike Beggs
The bleak landscapes filling the 16-page book album case set the scene for 'Billion’ - cliff-faces, alien badlands and stark rocky snowfields. The music is just as unforgiving. It’s moody, and all those moods are dark and violent. Relentless pounding rhythms are the anchor for electronic menace and punishing sheets of processed guitar. This is instrumental ambient metal - not the soft-loud dynamic of HDU or Mogwai, it’s loud most of the time. In Erathem Phi an ominous bassline gives way to a klaxon-whine melody, before breaking in again and building to a maelstrom. In another stand-out track Badlands, a mournful piano line is led into a thundering noise assault and out the other side. 'Billion’ follows 1999’s 'Looming’ and its remix EP, 'Illooming’, from 2001. Avotor’s earlier music has featured on NZ TV and the film The Irrefutable Truth About Demons. This album sounds like the soundtrack to some sci-fi war epic. Out on Midium.Related Information
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