Gothtronic

Angina P delights us with her album “8 Rooms” and with it she has delivered one of the most interesting electronica releases of this year. The music of this Austrian beauty sounds like Autechre – while making “Amber”, but also reminds me of Anhe Donia. Or Plaid, or Aphex Twin. Even Funckarma, or Fourtet. Or some other warm, delicate, very melodic IDM act.Angina P, who took her name from medical term for the chronically throat pain she suffered, starts of very convincing with ‘Known Issues’. Especially the sound this lady produces is very well done: warm, tender and very gentle. ‘No Time To Bleed’ is most definitely the highlight on this release, but also ‘Placemat Club’ and ‘Good Lady Wife’ give me goose bumps.The last three tracks are remixes by Semiomime, Edgey and Larvae. The sound and style of these remixes aren’t very different from the originals, although the Edgey remix is a bit weird. The remix of the delightful ‘No Time To Bleed’ is well done and sounds very good, but is a bit chaotic and noisy. Therefore it doesn’t fit in with the other seven, more spherical tracks. And because he did remix my favorite, I’m not very fond of this track. But sofar, this is the only flaw I could think of. And I don’t expect to find any more, because this release keeps spinning in my stereo and discman. The disc comes in a funny cardboard sleeve with artwork that is clean, stylish and sterile. The website is fun and hip.To my humble opinion, Angina P is a very promising electronica heroine.

Alter eRgo, Goththronic 10/18/2006