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axiome started out a little over two years ago as a project of ever-present group of collaborators - olivier moreau and c-drik fermont, both known to anyone that has been following the scene for past few years.

I had quite mixed feelings about this album at first - on one hand I was glad that they chose not to follow with straight rhythmic escapades of "rictus" - at this point in time it would have been lost in the overabundance of output in this genre; on the other hand, I am not sure anymore what is the reason behind releasing essentially similar music under different names - take "kaleinoiscope," or john's falling elevators releases, and possibly other similar projects in the works.

this axiome release possesses a strange spell, its atmosphere filled with static fuzziness and layers of glitchy electronica, cut up and spliced with distant cold strings and murky percussion splashes - drony and hypnotizing. it is not as visibly media-oriented as ammo, alternating between monotonous phantasmagoric landscapes, crumpled with skipping noises and heaving ominous synths, and almost goofy, tongue-in-cheek collages of strange melodies and samples. if you listen closely enough, you will notice how much more rhythmic this album is than "kaleinoscope," thus paying a tribute to "rictus." the nature of those rhythms is quite different though, they serve as hypnotizing, atmospheric background, steadily building uneasy, outlandish feel, characteristic to this album.

the compositions actually seem to go somewhere, in this eccentric, eclectic style, bordering between splintery media collage, glitch minimalism, layered clicks+cuts textures, dark ambient feel and strangest samples that startle you at first and then leave you wanting to hear them over and over again. after all, if nothing else appealed to you, if you were looking for simple melodies and accessible rhythms, you would certainly enjoy stellar engineering and wealth of found noises, coolest sounds that form exotic sonic textures that morph and flow into each other throughout the whole album.