Kemia & Ollijohanna

[TOTFORM21] KEMIA / OLLIJOHANNA Will be a clear C50 split-tape of dark experimental electronics by KEMIA and no-input-mixer dronescapes by OLLIJOHANNA in a limited edition of 15 copies in a numbered postcardsized package. totes-format.tk totstellen-grmmsk.bandcamp.com/album/kemia-ollijohanna OLLIJOHANNA soundcloud.com/ollijohanna TOTFORM [experimental musick + less] TOTES FORMAT has been founded by GRIMM in 2002 to provide more unnecessary branding in a world already full of $hit. totes-format.tk GRMMSK totstellen-grmmsk.bandcamp.com IDWAL FISHER Out of this dark sea of ambience and dark electronic sounds the last track of three by German artist Kemia got to me the most. It might have been artistic judgement, kismet or a recording made on an inspiring day when the sun just about rises over the horizon and the temperature barely budges above zero but ‘untitled 3’ [never has a track of such beauty been given such a mundane title] did for me like a Novocain shot in a dentist’s chair. A dreamy and blissful decay wrung from an only dreamt about Basinski/Prince collaboration where a series of underwater detonations reverb out to coda on bed of dreamy muffled voices and celestial treated harp. Hypnogogic pop eat your heart out. The preceding two are bleak low hertz blasts and nocturnal ritualistic electronics and something I need to investigate further but track three … let me play it just one more time. On the flip comes Ollijohanna and two tracks of stunning black industrial ambience. Here is all cavernous drones and desolate electronic skree, hollow roars and stripped wastelands, the sounds of distant explosions and their aftermath. idwalfisher.blogspot.de/2016/12/totes-format.html