The international music magazine 365Mag rates the debut album by Hunter Complex 8,5 out of 10: ‘Each song features a magnificent and well balanced structure that finds it origin somewhere in the area between dance and pop, with the vocals adding a certain pop element to the overall in a Kraftwerk kind of way. Recommended!’ The Hunter Complex album also got some very positive reviews from Vital Weekly (‘it’s great’) and Subjectivisten / Caleidoscoop (‘highly recommended!’). Musicfrom.nl is less enthusiastic about the latest Narrominded releases. They think the idea behind The Almighty Internet by Spoelstra doesn’t make a good album and compare Hunter Complex to The Edge. The online radio program Beautiful Extremes played tracks from both albums, so you can judge for yourself. Listen to the fragments from Beautiful Extremes in the players below.

Beautiful Extremes, February 16 2010, with Moonset by Hunter Complex and Day of the System by Spoelstra:

Beautiful Extremes, February 23 2010, with Dance by Hunter Complex and The Classic Handbuzzer by Spoelstra:

Retro Retry 2: Another Another Green World got some mainstream attention in NRC Next: ‘Not all the remakes are evenly succesful, but I’m sure Eno will appreciate this album. After all, he always encouraged breaking down conventions.’
Lobo by Garçon Taupe, elected dance track of 2009 on Eclectro, made it into the playlist of Nalden, a prominent Dutch lifestyle blogger.
The Almighty Internet by Spoelstra has just been released, but already got two great reviews. Vital Weekly: ‘Shut down Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and go that nice bar around the corner, and have some of this great music, preferably played by Spoelstra, sweating over his equipment. Loud is best, cold beer in your hand, and Spoelstra’s quirky electro beats, chopped up synth lines, bits of noise will do the rest.’ Incendiary Magazine on Spoelstra: ‘I love it, and if you like the oddball, you’ll love it too.’
Incendiary Magazine also reviewed Katadreuffe’s Quel Gargantua EP: ‘It’s a long time I heard any band so wound up and truculent, to be honest. Fantastic stuff.’

The Vital Weekly, the oldest online source for music reviews, reviewed the Here Is the Night EP by Hunter Complex: ‘Altogether it made me very anxious to hear his album.’ Read the whole review here. Here Is the Night EP is available on cd and as a free mp3 download (direct link to zip file with mp3’s and artwork).

The online dance magazine 365Mag rates Retro Retry 2: Another Another Green World 8.5 out of 10. ‘Whereas lots of compilations tend to result in shallow a dime a dozen releases, this one actually takes the listener down an intriguing trip through the depths of electronica in its best form.’ In their review of Split LP #4 the oldest online source for music reviews Vital Weekly says: ‘Garçon Taupe plays rudimentary electro poptunes, that are actually quite nice. He mixes good ol’ fashioned 80s synthi-pop with 90s techno, but in a very playful manner. Legowelt play altogether a somewhat darker tune. Nice tracks too, but not on par with Garçon Taupe.’

‘This is what a cover album should sound like’. Subjectivisten / Caleidoscoop reviews the just released remake of Brian Eno’s classic from 1975: Retro Retry 2: Another Another Green World. Read it here. Vital Weekly also reviews the album: ‘It’s a nice compilation, wether or not you love Eno.’ Read more here.

Vital Weekly, the oldest online source for music reviews, reviews the new albums by Psychon and Living Ornaments. They call Slow Country For Old Men by Psychon music with ’hip hop like rhythms and lots of wacky vocal samples, guitars, ambient doodling, psychedelica that strangely enough sounds all pretty coherent.’ And Korrels by Living Ornaments ‘armchair dance music’. Read the whole review here.

In this week’s issue, Vital Weekly reviews five releases by Narrominded: the three new Coen Oscar Polack releases, I Got Issues the Shape of Italy by Spoelstra en National Anthems by Boutros Bubba. The track Under Trees It Rains Twice by Coen Oscar Polack & Herman Wilken was also included in their podcast. Vital Weekly calls The Skipping Monk by Coen Oscar Polack ‘an excellent sound diary of what was surely an interesting trip’.