The Industrial Twilight: Cracked Core

Friday, June 11, 2010

Cracked Core - "Audiolog" [2009]

Artist: Cracked Core

Title: Audiolog
Label: Mental Excitement
Genre: Electronic / IDM / Minimal
Country: Russia
Release date: 2009
Size: 65 mb

Track list:

Breakpoint [Remix by (Project) Ritual Noise]
Install v.1 [feat. Kazdalevsky]
Cosmo
Spice Trip
Memory Error [Hardcore Remix by Terror Panicus]
Inner Disassembling [Hardcore Remix by Terror Panicus]
Night Assault [electromix]
Feeder Lines [trancemix]
Urban Rhythm
Way through fear and pain
Electrofield
Breakpoint
Исчадие [Tension rmx by Cracked Core]

Cracked Core is an experimental music project by one of my friends (though I never met that guy in person, but whatever), and I promised him that the first album posted in this blog would be his debut full-length release. Well, here it is. To be honest, it's not my favourite kind of music (I prefer EBM, darkwave and noise), but it's very good for a first release. The album cover says all about the atmosphere on this album: it's inspired by grey industrial landscapes at the outskirts of Moscow, and the feeling of isolation in a large city...

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Cracked CoreJune 12, 2010 at 11:51 AM
Thanks for review :)
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