syndrone lp review from www.hauntedink.com A new album by Florida artist Syndrone (the first release on the new Merck label) is a great example of this. The songs themselves are very simple, building block affairs. The sounds used to fill in those structures are fantastic--lots of great bubble-crisp synths and slippery CGDs, weird reverb'd FX, synth lines, and samples, and a whole host of other wonderful, inventive sounds. The 1st song, for example, "Tedow," begins innocently enough with a simple synth line, but then builds into a complex rhythm of gooey-electronic fun. Along the way, as I've said, sounds rise and subside, more songs build and others are torn down, but the lasting impression is not the structure but the wonderful interplay of exciting sounds. The whole album is a joy that celebrates the freedom offered by modern computers, which are giving more and more people easy access to creative tools once only available to professionals. Long may that revolution continue, if it means that we can listen to stuff like this! translation of syndrone lp review from www.mcity.fr - original in french This CD isn't just the first Merck release, its also the first production of syndrone, a young American project. This new generation strongly inspired by Autechre, but also by AFX, BoC, and Funkstörung, perpetuates this huge experimental quest in composing a noisy techno, but more sophisticated and mature. On the album 'Triskaideka' you'll appreciate the complex decomposed and mechanical rhythms, combined with ambient sounds and sad melancholic melodies. The fine melodic arrangements and sad climaxes render this music incredibly moving. It is totally the bedroom electronic music of the year 2000!. A rather paradoxical sort of music, since it is at the same time tortured and cooperative, dynamic and serene. The autechre virus has contaminated lots of musicians all around the world. A new post-"intelligent techno" creates new electronic and instrumental minifactories for emotional robots. If you like the mental excursions of grandeur from artists such as Phonem, Phoenecia, and Arovane, this Syndrone album is an extraordinary robotic report. An artist to follow very closely. translation of syndrone lp review in Line Up: Electro Culture #15 (June 2000) Several years after [the coming of] the electronic wizards of England and Germany, the Americans are striking back strongly: with a profusion of miniscule labels and a few 'begginings' of deviant electronic music (i.e. dj spooky). They will only get better, the mysterious syndrone makes machines that are somewhere between Autechre's 'tri repetae' era and funkstorung. His album warrants taking a look at. The melodic "tedow" streches longingly through a forest of square-like rhythms. "wax window", with its soft, colorful beat, fights a seemingly extra-terrestrial invasion. Autechre is cloned on 'triskaideka' more warpy than usual, with a 7th track 'intrnlrrr' in disguise of the nail of the presentation. Syndrone's laboratory is becoming a starting point in which I will lose, with a smile, my finances just to discover what other things he will produce.

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