Radian
The Austrian trio Radian is a post-rock/electronic group who uses both acoustic and electronic instruments. The group's members often play even their acoustic instruments in such a rhythmically precise manner that Radian sounds more like an electronic act than a band.
Radian -- which includes bassist John Norman, drummer Martin Brandlmayr, and synth player Stefan NTmeth -- formed in Vienna in 1996, although the group did not play its first show until a full year later. Soon after, the Rhiz label released the group's self-titled EP in Austria. The group's ...[more]
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VINYL FORMAT. Chimeric is not a polished album. Within our context it is raw, broken, and even dark sometimes. Steady, multiple rhythms, layered on top of each other disappear into chaos and turn back into discreet structures in the next moment. References of rock music, executed with the precision of a sequencer; mutated, restructured. A lot on this album is about control and the loss of control. The risk of failure. This was probably always in our music, but kept in a very stable form, sometimes ev [ read more ]
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VINYL FORMAT. Radian is at the center of a very fertile and exciting musical scene in Vienna, which critics are citing as one of the most adventurous and important of current movements, akin to the free jazz movement in '70s Chicago, the no-wave movement in '80s NYC, and the garage/jungle movement in '90s London's. With "Juxtaposition," we get a taste of this cutting-edge electronic scene. On the record, Radian recorded instruments (drums, bass, guitar, vibraphone, and marimbaphone) in unusual ways, like mi [ read more ]
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