___RELEASES___
Exillon - A Bit Young For You
1 x EP - PuZZling Records
$10+$2 shipping (USA)
$10+$8 shipping (outside USA)
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Exillon - The Keening Dithers
1 x CD - Ad Noiseam Records
$13 + $2 shipping
SOLD OUT!!! check www.adnoiseam.net
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Exillon - Prequiem
1 x CD - Component Records
$12 + $2 shipping
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Exillon - EP01
1 x EP - Zod Records
$10 + $2 shipping
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V/A - Polymorphik
1 x LP - PuZZling Records
$12 + $2 shipping
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V/A - Mochipet - Feel My China
1 x CD - Component Records
$12 + $2 shipping
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V/A - Dura Matters
2 x LP - Zod Records
$14 + $2 shipping
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V/A - Dura Matters
1 x CD - Zod Records
$12 + $2 shipping
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Systemic 02
1 x CD - Systemic Audio
$5 + $2 shipping
___CONTACT___
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___REVIEWS___
EXILLON - THE KEENING DITHERS (CD by Ad Noiseam)_Another exciting release from Berlin-based label "Ad Noiseam". This latest album from the label comes from San Francisco-based sound-artist Jay Fields a.k.a. Exillon. Being his second opus this new album titled "The keening dithers" contains the most emotional expression from the IDM-based artist. Opening smoothly with two tracks of tranquillizing chill-out electronica based on processed piano reminiscent of early avantgarde classical, the expression turns more dramatic and threatening from third track forward. "Termit" (track three) is the track that introduces the IDM-based breakbeat-texture that is the characterizing element of Exillon. Musically Exillon combines the technoid and atmospheric Industrial-sound similar to Welsh duo Somatic Responses with complex rhythm-textures and melodic moments based on processed sounds of acoustic instruments such as the aforementioned piano and gentle guitar-strums. The multi-facetted electronic work is decorated with a bunch of voice-samples giving a nice variation to the full-throttle energetic instrumental tracks. A very pleasant album with plenty of quality for repetitive listening. Vital Weekly, http://www.vitalweekly.net/510.html
Following releases on Zod and Component Records for his Exillon, The Keening Dithers signifies a notable emotional and stylistic advance for Jay Fields. Par for the dark electronics genre, the album includes its share of hammering doomscapes (Termit) and intricate glitchfests (Jan, Kollipy) but promising new directions declare themselves, too. Ignore the rather woeful title Moonlight Sinatra and instead revel in the classical sonata-styled piano playing that is the songs moody core. Perhaps its the infusion of collaborative blood that partially explains the albums broad sound. Certainly, Aliasing, the outing with 5 Minute Project, brings forth an affecting melancholy dimension, while Fields throwdown with Mad E.P. (Dtofv3) and acid overhaul of Meat Beat Manifestos Horn of Jericho prompt spasmodic seizures.
Elsewhere, placid synth melodies brighten complex rhythmic patter in the almost symphonic Cadi and laconic hip-hop beats shuffle through the Terminal11 collab Now Youll Never Know. Though such moments surprise, the albums coup de grace is the ultra-submersive closer Sfx02, a 13-minute, Ligetiesque space drone that ultimately expires in symphonic splendor. That this refreshingly unpredictable collection should close with such an arresting flourish is quite appropriate. Grooves Magazine, http://www.groovesmag.com/review_item.php?id=00000236
And now for something completely different. One of the fascinating aspects of Ad Noiseam is that each release can be widely divergent from the previous record. On The Keening Dithers, Exillion's playful electronic compositions are filled with eager melodies and sprightly beats, tiny little digital constructs built from arrays of sparks and fine wire. Virtual instruments echo their wood and metal counterparts with a polished spiritness and his rhythms have more in common with the ebullience of fizzy water than the relentless thump of a metronomic drum machine.
"Moonlight Sinatra" is a soft-shoe duet between a metallic drum kit and a piano, a Fred and Ginger dance across moonlight rooftops where the drum kit lifts the piano over the stubby heat vents and ragged pieces of broken tar paper. The kit shuffles against the hard roof, skuffing and tapping its toe with an abrasive timbre to its beats while the piano swoops and darts with a flurry of diaphanous melodies. Synthesizer melodies play hide and seek behind a charged drum kit in "Termit," laughing like a bit of space music as they dance just out of reach of the heavy stick work of the percussion.
"Cadi" tugs at your heart with tiny strings of bird-like melody, playing you for a sucker while atmospheric drum programming dithers about in the foreground, building tiny microcosms of beats and kicks that dissolve into elusive mist. Exillon includes his remix of Meat Beat Manifesto's "Horn of Jericho," a version filled with electronic cacophony -- squelches and barks of fat digital sounds that turn the organic flavor of the original into a robotic dance-floor reconstruction. "Dtofu3" shivers and gabbers like an Aphex Twin experiment with stretches of ambient space where steel gongs are elongated into hollow echoes; while "Kollipy" hops onto stage like a one-legged bit pirate, hawking illicit DSP patches and black-market field recordings of mournful tones (the time-delayed keening of widows at funerals, the slow exhalation of steam boat whistles at dusk, the reverberant echo of a soprano's voice as heard through water-logged pipe -- that sort of thing).
I love the title of this record: The Keening Dithers. It's a meaningless phrase until you hear the album and realize both words fit the mood perfectly. Oftentimes emotionally melodic and playfully rhythmic, Exillon's first release on Ad Noiseam (his debut full-length was released on Component in 2005) keeps with the label's aesthetic of releasing engaging and genre-independent material. Melding ambient soundtracks to idyllic dance music with a neural web of virtual patch cables and clever programming, Exillon engages the head and heart nicely. Igloo Magazine, http://igloomag.com/doc.php?task=view&id=1238&catego
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