Kayo Dot – Plastic House on Base of Sky (2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

Kayo Dot – Plastic House on Base of Sky (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 38:23 minutes | 802 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © The Flenser

The core of Kayo Dot might be that mood one that lies at the crossroads of darkness and mystery. In film, music that accompanies mystery is often nocturnal, playing on a primal relation in our brains between the unknown and the night. Its this intersection that is the essence of Kayo Dot. Kayo Dot has never made the same record twice. From chamber music to progressive black metal, from goth to jazz and avant ­garde classical, Kayo Dot is experimental and often unclassifiable. Plastic House on Base of Sky is Kayo Dot s 7th full ­length since the bands inception in 2003 On Kayo Dots newest full length, Plastic House on Base of Sky, the band continues to embrace the electronic allusions found on their previous effort Coffins on Io. Plastic House on Base of Sky incorporates a variety of synthesizers (many of them vintage analog) to create another work of ambition and magnitude that fuses the explosive musical imagination of a band like Magma with the forward­ thinking experimentalism of Conrad Schnitzler or Morton Subotnick. This latest effort, a 40 minute ­long, 5­ song album replaces the future­noir theme of Coffins on Io with an innovative, complex, and biomechanical work of art. Think seemingly impossible architecture, dead satellites, trashed space stations, wasted old lady heroin addicts hanging out by cheap motel pools, broken people, and a hopeless dead and polluted world transitioning into artifice and mechanism and reacting by being self­ destructive, either to the point of utter obliteration or a glorious transhuman condition. Toby Driver, the primary composer and bandleader of Kayo Dot, has been fiercely productive over the years, and while that usually refers to how many songs or albums an artist has made, with Driver the productivity is in the realm of ideas as much as music itself. In the course of a single Kayo Dot song, the amount of risks and liberties taken with form and convention usually outnumbers what other artists cover in a full album. For as much ground as they cover, its always in the service of a carefully curated mood and this is apparent on Plastic House on Base of Skys exploration of our mechanical post­human future­present.

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Kayo Dot – Hubardo (2013) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Kayo Dot – Hubardo (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:38:56 minutes | 2,13 GB | Genre: Metal
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Prophecy Productions

HUBARDO is the seventh studio album by veteran avant-metal maestros, KAYO DOT. Produced by Randall Dunn (Sunn0)))), and with a running time of almost 100 minutes, the music follows an epic and heartbreaking narrative of a meteor falling to Earth and its enchantment and alchemical transformation of a lonely poet.

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Kayo Dot – Gamma Knife (2012) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Kayo Dot – Gamma Knife (2012)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 30:38 minutes | 348 MB | Genre: Metal
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Prophecy Productions

Gamma Knife is the sixth album by avant-garde metal group Kayo Dot. The album was self-released through frontman Toby Driver’s Ice Level Music via Bandcamp on January 4, 2012, following the group’s departure from Hydra Head Records. The bulk of the album was recorded live at Brooklyn, New York venue Littlefield on October 5, 2011, with the remainder recorded at Driver’s residence in late 2011. It was mixed by longtime producer Randall Dunn.It is notable for beginning the return to Driver’s metal roots and features harsh vocals for the first time since Choirs of the Eye. The vinyl and CD copies are both available via the group’s Bandcamp.

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