Drone Records
Your cart (0 item)

NOKALYPSE - Repeated in an Indefinitely Alternating Series of Thoughts

Format: LP
Label & Cat.Number: Absurd / Entr'acte A78/E73
Release Year: 2009
Note: lim. 250 / album by the man behind the fabulous TRIPLE BATH-label from Greece, Themistoklis Pantelopoulos
Price (incl. 19% VAT): €15.50
Warning: Currently we do not have this album in stock!


More Info

"Nokalypse is Themistoklis Pantelopoulos (1982). Based in Athens, Greece, he has been making electronic music for the best part of a decade. Initially producing beat-driven and ambient work (as a solo artist and as a member of several bands), he abandoned rhythm and melody in 2006 following a prolonged and deepening exposure to various experimental, improvised and classical musics. Pantelopoulos also established his label, Triple Bath, that year. The two compositions that make up Repeated in an Indefinitely Alternating Series of Thoughts (Discerning Eye of Mystics and Everlasting Babylon of Your Mind) are extracted from a vast body of work created during the Spring and Summer months of 2006. According to Pantelopoulos, the objective of this recording session was to see if he could 'thrill himself' without the use of any melodic elements, at a time when he was seeking non-emotional or gnostic stimulation; sound itself was to be the sole, fundamental component. Revisited in 2009, the tracks were mixed and processed further, resulting in Nokalypse's most lavish electroacoustic work to date: toxic, metallic, alienated sound, far away from academic theories or political beliefs... First edition of 250 copies. Co-published with absurd." [label info]

www.entracte.co.uk

"Only a few weeks ago I reviewed a CDR by Nokalypse, the musical project of Themis Pantelopolous, who also runs the Triple Bath label. Here he has two pieces which he recorded in 2006 already but that are now revised for the release on this LP, a joint venture between UK's Entr'acte and Greek Absurd branch. Nokalypse plays music using software, Audiomulch and Wavelab are two of his favorite toys. With that he creates drone music but its not the usual kind of drone music. At times it sounds like music that is somehow, somewhere slightly academic in approach, but throughout one hear it isn't. Besides the official academic composers of the sixties, there were also then outsiders, who released music on vinyl. HIghly obscure material, and when I was listening to Nokalypse I was reminded of that. His compositions aren't very tight, but rather loosely structured, with repeating blocks that return every now and then, sounds fading in and out. Things are pitched up and down the scale and develop over the course of the side of a record. A bit PBK like, Conrad Schnitzler is never far away as an influence, and it makes two lovely pieces of music. Somewhere between academic and non academic, ambient and industrial, this is a great one." [FdW / Vital Weekly]