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Music Tuesday #058: Kompressor Odyssey

Remember Arthur C. Clarke's Monolith from 2001: A Space Odyissey?  For those who only watch films, you will know Stanley Kubrick's version.  This is one of the few times where the movie is as good as the book.  Anyway, calling from Switzerland is today's band The Kompressor Experiment.  I've come across this EP while randomly roaming the interwebs on a Saturday evening in July.  I am sitting here now, in a pitch dark room with open windows so that the chill evening breeze caresses my neck while I labour over this post.   The Monolith EP meanwhile keeps me company. The noise isolating phones allow me to focus on the music and the hot summer street noise is not messing up the experience. The EP  refers to the book/film and tries to capture that enigmatic and almost threatening presence of the Monolith.  Mystery and suspense are definitely part of this music.

Why did I choose this one?  Because it fits my mood, dark, sometimes heavy, with a clean guitar melody or a light touch of synth.  The music has been mixed so that the drums sit quite low in the back, giving ample space to the bass and distortion guitars.  The lead melody is usually quite clean and mixed to the foreground.  All in all a very pleasurable sound.

I'm hooked on the Monolith I & II.  The last song MG1, from a 2001 demo by the band didn't do it for me though.

The Kompressor Experiment - The Monolith
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqHs30UdF1I

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