melencolia is maybe the most minimalistic thing black egg did so far, but it offers such a multidimensional sound with many layers and variations that can't be taken just like another minimal dark electro thing, and it's absolutely not. black egg on melencolia created a very dense and perverse sound which drills into your mind and soul with retro psychedelic elements, that could be in a strange way connected with the retro avantgarde rock sound of velvet underground and even with most disturbing and provocative things the doors did back then. but please don't be misguided by my sayings, because black egg is an musical creation on its own as you'll find here also elements of cold wave, ghost wave, dark wave, synth wave, punk, even segments of industrial music, everything well combined into an highly expressive almost ritualistic monodramatic musical output. use of different instruments, from synthetic retro beats, various samples, deep pulsating bass lines, piano, rhythmic noises,..., makes the whole thing dynamic, the atmosphere is often very suspenseful, psychedelic, sometimes almost appropriate for a bdsm orgy, everything is yet well produced and arranged, giving kind of a multimensional depth. mastered by friedemann kootz (galakthorrö, haus arafna, november növelet). limited to 500 copies.
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