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Vivo is a primarily electronic label based in Poland with six releases to date, including the recommended Black Faction remix album 'Reworked.' With this compilation, they present 49 minutes worth of "narrative sonic stories," ("nowele" is Polish for "short stories") by little known but impressive artists from the US, Poland and Japan. "Uruk," by Maciek Szymczuk sets a rhythmic foundation of pops and gelatinous warbles as a lucid two note ping makes for melody.
"Awar Fedbk," by Shapethrower slowly casts resonant synth waves over gears and light beats. "NonStopFilm," by FilmFilter, the lone Japanese entry, is uniquely bizarre as numerous samples—pop vocals, cartoon-like sound effects, a twinkle bell, rips and tears, metal on metal, etc.—violently mesh in a Nurse With Wound-meets-Mouse on Mars manner. Yume's three tracks are mostly soft, truly ambient environments, populated with chimes and the sonic residue of shifting clutter. Phasmid's "The Heroine Of Goat Bells," and "Mehr Licht," (More Lights) feature playful melodies plunked out on vibraphone-like instruments, the former forgoing the latter's big bass tones and tiny beats for bird song and ritualistic thumps. The cryptically titled "I=B000-B7FF.CRC," and "There's No Way," by Zenial and Palsecam (the latter vs. Szymczuk) both overlay mellow ambiances with more pops and slightly more aggressive electronics. Finally, "Six Sigma (Blackbelt Rmx)," by Alphabet1 mixes moans, mid tempo drum loops, and electric guitar notes, all effected in one way or another. Altogether, this is a very pleasant array of electro-organic sounds. "Now:Le" is one of those compilations that you won't have to skip any tracks and you'll want to repeat quite a few. 
 
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"Mind Your Own Business" and "Sweetmeat" prove that you can write coolsongs about anything, even privacy via a "can I have a taste of yourice cream?" metaphor and unfortunate encounters with animals."Insect/Suspect" is an instant classic with bash and crash drums, KeithLevene-esque guitar (he actually appears on another track) by Kittie'sFallon Bowman and Hate Dept's Seibold and Chris Connelly trading offverse and chorus vocals. "Closer To Heaven" is the "hit" as it were,dripping with sitars and underpinned by Charles Levi's liquid bassline. Thrill Kill Kult's Groovie Mann is backed by Nocturne's LaceyConner in refrains of "I'm closer to heaven when I'm with you, I'mcloser to heaven without you." "Du Liebst Mich Nicht, Ich Lieb' DichNicht," ("You Love Me Not, I Love You Not") sees the successful returnof En Esch for another German language sing-a-long. In "Miss SwayAction," Connelly croons poetry over a lo-fi synth and percussionsetting by Machines of Loving Grace/Stabbing Westward alumnus DavidSuycott. That leaves all the rest: heavies dabbling in industrial rockand metal clichés (some of these will be fun live), a cyberpunk spokenword piece by Jared Louche, drum 'n bass filler and a vaguely amusingaddition to the "fucks" list led by the talking half of Penn &Teller. The "United" North American tour featuring Pigface, My LifeWith the Thrill Kill Kult, Zeromancer and Bile will hit the road inmid-March.
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