MiDi BiTCH – ZEiTLOS
ZEiTLOS is about time
1. Evolution Of Stardust 03:31
2. Warm Glow Of Meaning 05:04
3. Trapped In The Past 08:11
4. Cosmic Reefer 06:19
5. Doors of Perception 04:48
6. Altered Consciousness 03:46
7. Reefer Jive 05:00
8. Andromeda 04:32
9. Beyond The Black Lodge 06:01
10. Borrowed Frequencies 04:52
11. Use An Unacceptable Color 03:46
12. Everybody’s Hertz 03:17
13. Kwisatz Haderach 07:09
Bliss…..space..depth..subrumbling…massively wide pulse width modulation….Vangelisesque CS80 synth brass…
„Never“ ending positive flow, uplifting & satisfying, solid 24/44.1, 16th of my MiDi BiTCH collection => Stay Kosmisch! Favorite track: Everybody’s Hertz.
MiDi BiTCH – ZEiTRAFFER
ZEiTRAFFER / TiMELAPSE is about time, timetravelling and the nonlinear consciousness. No future – no past.
1.Zeit 05:14
2.Sprung 04:04
3.Anomalie 07:33
4.Temporale Zangenbewegung 06:46
5.Helix Dilemmata 08:50
6.Der lange Atem 05:49
7.Die ruhige Hand 05:10
8.Abzählbare Unendlichkeit 04:42
9.Alles auf Anfang 11:06
„A timless art of work. Favorite track: Alles auf Anfang.“ Leitfrequenz
„Incredible album. Another amazing work by MiDi BITCH. Favorite track: Sprung.“ Pabellón Sintético
MiDi BiTCH – ZEiTENWENDE
„Pure Retrofuture. I Love it. Favorite track: Der große Sprung.“ Leitfrequenz
„Sonic soundscapes and deep sequenced synth moods… Favorite track: Tief im Herzen wartet jeder auf das Ende der Welt.“
„Boah, Zeitenwende ist echt klasse! Das neueste Album ist gerade mal ein paar Tage raus (22.Mai.2022) und schon strömt es bei mir durch die Boxen. Die Musik könnte einen echt super Soundtrack für einen Sience-Fiction-Thriller abgeben – und die Namen der Tracks lassen auch darauf schliessen. Ein wenig Endzeitstimmung, aber auch herrliche Sequenzerläufe mit echt guten Rhythmen – hier ist einfach alles dabei, inklusive Dramatik! Ein echt tolles Album (…)“
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MiDi BiTCH – THE ALiENATiON OF CONTEMPORARY SOCiETY
„That’s a quite interesting concept album between Kraüt music and dark wave with aweseome sound design! Very personal and colored. Just bravo.“ Sound Together
„I like this 80´s guitar a lot. Favorite track: Phase V.“ leitfrequenz
„It’s very good, I like the unusual combination of drum patterns with guitar samples and synths. I listened to some others like Kosmischer Nebel as well, some great passages like Tangerine Dream sessions but more original“ Mark Jenkins
„Amazing release. Brilliant and dark atmospheres. Love this.“ Pabellón Sintético
“There are a lot of sci-fi movie music influences in this pretty solid album” Sylvain Lupari SynthSequences.com
Fredy Engel, the man behind MiDi BiTCH, continues to fill the world of electronic music (EM) with his works where atmospheric phases are born and die in a fusion of electronic post-rock and industrial vapors. Very generous of his works, the German musician likes to offer them for free by giving codes to this effect on his Facebook page. An incentive to follow his activities! THE ALIENATION OF CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY is a concept album that describes the transformation of our society towards its alienation process. Offered in download format, his last opus proposes a good dystopian film music where the essences of Tangerine Dream’s soundtrack universes mix with Jean-Michel Jarre’s industrial rhythms and Vangelis‘ dark vision on his movie music such as Blade Runner. In short, a whole cocktail that makes us spend a pleasant 53 minutes of jittery rhythm on a good combination of percussions, whirring bass pulsations and a powerful and haunting bass structure. The rhythms are heavy in catastrophic visions which suits the concept of the album very well with an excellent vision of the sequencer which, combined with good percussion and seductive percussive effects, gives off a fine organic tone at times. Finally, the electric guitar textures soak us in a very Andy Pickford atmosphere in his good years of futuristic musical visions.
Phase I sets the mood with a cinematic opening heavy of its slow bursts of sounds. The orchestrations weave a movement of jerks with synth pads that fall by bumps. Gradually, the atmospherics give way to a stoic drum beat structure. Giving a heavier than lively rhythm with tinklings doing rodeo over an intense vision of futuristic catastrophe. Following the principle of minimalist structures, MiDi BiTCH adorns its music with sound effects and synth arrangements that give this catastrophic texture to the 11 tracks that arm THE ALIENATION OF CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY with a dystopian industrial vision. The use of voices and vocal effects add to this vision which takes on a more industrial character at times. A female voice recites a short text which initiates the evolutionary structure of Phase II and its more fluid rhythm with good undulation effects of the synthesizer layers. The structure is of the dystopian post-rock kind with a strong cinematographic essence in the arrangements. Overall, the tone is very dark with haunting cymbal clicks and a superb rolling of the sequencer balls that reminds of Chris Franke’s signature. The structure features an atmospheric bridge built on percussive effects. This bridge leads to a phase closer to the apocalyptic visions of Vangelis, the tone is there, in a science fiction movie. Phase III proposes other vocal textures on a rhythm built on a form of interstellar gallop. The percussion and percussive effects are at the heart of its seductive elements. With its heavy pulsations that resonate like in the Revolutions universe of Jean-Michel Jarre, Phase IV is another futuristic electronic rock structured on very good percussions and also plaintive riffs and solos of a wild guitar. A big track that captures the attention from its first buzzing pulsations. The guitar is also present in the opening of Phase V and its waves which undulate under its riffs stretched in the form of short solos. Jarre’s imprint, Rendez-Vous, is also omnipresent in the vocals. The track features a semi-formed rhythm that spins like a slow carousel of organic sequences under humming, swirling, spectral synth waves. Dystopian like in an Andy Pickford universe, the album Terraformer!
And a track like the slow, heavy, circular Phase VI sinks us further into this perception. In a futuristic blues ambience, the humming strains of the bass line and the gaseous effects of the percussive rattles are as seductive as the line of jerky sequences that girdle the movement like a flickering, strobe-like shadow. Speaking of circular waves scrolling by deafening strobe, Phase VII is of a rare rhythmic violence. Heavier and slower than its opposite, this rhythm encircles a sound slideshow that reminds us of that scene in the movie Terminator where cyborgs try to annihilate the human race. Structured on a bass line, Phase VIII takes us into a Latino sector of THE ALiENATION OF CONTEMPORARY SOCiETY. Phase IX survives on a line of deaf thumps and percussive clangs that run over an increasingly gripping structure. The synth layers have that weeping texture, while the more powerful ones generate a vision of the end of the world on a tangle of lines undulating like this lost look after a catastrophe. Fredy Engel surprises us with this piano line that introduces us to the slow rhythm of Phase X. The bass line grumbles on and on, supporting a sober percussion game and also those keyboard riffs that solidify the slow evolving texture, also propelled by the wind, of this very good track in this new MiDi BiTCH album. Tinkles abandoned to a circular structure radiate in the opening of Phase XI and its surges of THX sounds that contain a restrained fury. A dull clamor tries to ascend to our ears, while the tinkling finally sighs like those stars that change galaxy. From then on, a pulsating bass line redirects the structure of Phase XI into a spasmodic rhythm that refuses to spill over, concluding THE ALiENATION OF CONTEMPORARY SOCiETY in that heavy and circular rhythm structure that is the prerogative of a dystopian EM album where all scenarios are possible, depending on the imagination of the moment.
Do we want something else than Berlin School or atmospheric ambiences? MiDi BiTCH’s music answers this need, without distancing us too much from it.
Sylvain Lupari (June 5th, 2022) ***¾** // SynthSequences.com
Midi Bitch – BEYOND THE RAiNBOW CONNECTiON (OST)
„A hypnotic and driving synthwave-soundtrack, combining new and exciting influences as well as stripping back some of the sound established on the previously Kosmische Musik releases.“
Zéro by Frédéric & Olivier
„Dark experimental Tech-Synth-Pop instrumentals. The album „Zéro“ is a declaration of cubistic ambient electronic music.“