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| Electronic Music World Sidhartha-Mouse Clicking I've reviewed music before by andrey kiritchenko, the person behind sidhartha. I have several of his discs, but he always seems to be able to surprise me with something new, something different. always awesome music, always different ... always refreshing. my most recent review and the only one for thise site was of his 3" on retinascan records, frequently occuring fault which he released under his own name. so what does mouse clicking bring us? a bit over 43 minutes of music, spread out over 5 named tracks and a hidden 6th track, plus an audio part which includes the flash animation that is also available on the Wide Area Network Records website, but the 43 minutes that are there seem to be over in 1 mouse click. awesome glitchy sounds, lush but tense pads, weird rhythms. it combines and blends perfectly. As I said before, andrey is a musical genius. music like this should be released on a label like warp, schematic or SKAM. this ukrainian mastermind has a long, big future ahead of him in music. |
| recycle your ears Sidhartha-Mouse Clicking I was last year charmed by a CDR called "Sidhartha" by the Ukrainian musician Andrey Kiritchenko (head of the Nexsound label and also behind the Nihil Est Excellence project). It is now under this name that he releases his most electronic and emotional music. Full and lush, yet built of aerial blips, dim soundscapes and dynamic clicks, "Mouse clicking" is one of these albums that manage to combine emotion and sonic innovation, even though it doesn't contain any vocals, samples or easy melodies. In a way that could be compared to Oval's or Kid 606's, Sidhartha builds his songs very slowly, on several layers of cut up electronic tones and microscopic beats, and lets "normal" rhythmic patterns flow only seldomly, once the listener has been able to catch up with the dense but very gentle sound of the track (for example on the fourth minute of "onClick=start_thinking"). Made up of sounds that could be potentially scorching and scraping, "Mouse clicking" is still a very subtle and soft album, calm and quiet, but which never gets boring or numbing. Thanks to his weird russian synthesizers and a lot of tweaking, Andrey Kiritchenko has managed to create a highly melodic disc, yet based on mostly atonal sounds and analog tones that is poetic and emotional, but stays away from anything pop or mainstream. On top of all this, "Mouse clicking" also features a nice and well done film (to be seen on a computer) that works as a video for the album. Made of geometric forms reflecting the sounds and patterns, this is simple but well thought and done. Well produced, this "Mouse clicking" album is definitely an album for people interesting in the least pretentious and most talented edge of click'n'cut music. I honestly do not perceive any difference in quality between "Mouse clicking" or Kid 606's "Ps I love you" and similar material. This album has variations, interesting sounds, nice atmospheres, touching tones and an untypical sound. So I guess all I will have to do now is start a petition asking Mille Plateaux to release something by Sidhartha. |
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