An inspiring, evocative, sensual and sonically tactile experimental compilation from the fabulously named underground French label Camembert Électrique, with a vast range of international electronic artists capturing cold winter weather’s many textures - cracking, delicate crunchy ice, snow, electric fog, and frost in many fierce and fragile forms across 98 adventurous tracks. Pure and deadly, delicate and deafening, crystalline drones, shimmering atmospheres, and abstract sonic phenomena, motionless layers, subterranean resonances, icy pulses, or microscopic sound events and field recordings that glitter like frost shards. It is all to be enjoyed as a full immersion, a dip-in, or ambient subconscious experience, from the bleak winds, dripping sounds and crunchy footsteps of Monika Pich’s Mountain Views, the white noise and delicate echoey slaps of Luigi Morleo’s expansive ART NO WAR 1, the eerie calls of Vixyr's Paradox - Echoes Of The Breeze Outside or Susan Matthews’ In Icy Ryme (Y Mynydd Du), the skidding crashes and beats of WASHINGTON FORMICA’s Cold Night Race, the minimalist but mesmeric rippling and whispering sonic sounds of existent/nonexistent’s Trapped Under the Ice, the symphony of mystery of voices and sounds in THOMAS PARK’s The Small Things Living Beneath The Ice, the dark tones and cracking sounds of penis anxiety’s the noise of snow, the intriuiging otherworldly journey of Ocean in a Bottle’s Ice brushing against voyager ii on the edge of the solar system, all the way to Eagleclaw Ghost of Fulci’s 12-minute abstract closer Pagefella Cemetery. And this is merely scratching the surface of the iceberg and the musical permafrost. Available via Bandcamp, the entire album is available to download on a “name your price” basis.
Welcome then to the wonderful world of Camembert Électrique, a truly alternative label filled with love and experiment, somewhere for superbly strange musical discoveries you’ll find absolutely nowhere else, whether single artist or compilation albums. Some recent other releases including, milfest, a collection of madcap party music by the Argentinian quartet FRATICORNICOS; PRURIT, aka Schmürtz, the pioneer of the belgian electro grindcore in the early 2000s, with the pinging bounce of Sheet Music for 2 Pinballs, and perhaps tastiest of all, and released in April 2025, a compilation titled SONIC GASTRONOMY featuring various artists capturing all kinds of food and cooking in musical form. Delicious (also also shown below).
For more information and releases, see the Camembert Électrique website or the Bandcamp page
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