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Picture Credit: Guest of Rapture   Guest of Rapture - EGoR6: Scream Release Date: August 03, 2021 Label: selfrelease Format: Digital Length: 51:52 Genre: Dubstep / Horror / Metalcore Origin:  Los Angeles ,  CA ,  USA Measured by how rarely the genres EDM and Dubstep are featured on MangoWave, you can assume that only certain pearls and special works manage to convince me. One of those exceptional pieces is "Scream", the sixth part of Guest of Rapture's "EGoR" series. The artist from LA provides us with genre-merging innovative energy, a pitch-black horror story, and sonic narrative techniques that are absolutely unique. Guest of Rapture · Terrified (sOuNdS) "Scream" is a fifty-minute journey through the darkest and most horrifying chasms of our reality. Blood, gore, murder, violence, damnation, and fear spat out straight from infernal depths are bound in sound and noise. Mastermind Tom Berry  uses samples from horror movies, and creates a violent so...

Picture Credit: QUANTUM   QUANTUM - RISE. Release Date: July 09, 2021 Length: 03:11 Genre: Modern Metal / Drum and Bass Origin: Zürich , Switzerland I guess we can all agree that a lot of things need to change. Improvement is necessary in many aspects of our lives, no matter where we live, what we seek for, and how big or small or problems may be. For more than half a century we have sung the anthems of the Summer of Love, and many people - including me - still adore them. But the anthem for the fight for a better future does not mandatorily have to be presented via Psychedelic Rock or Anarcho Punk. Thus, here is something you might most likely have not experienced before. Here's the new anthem by Zürich's QUANTUM: The thrilling and powerful spoken word sample ends in "Let us fight for a new world", and then the band kicks in with there unique style. Harsh Metal and Hardcore riffs create a rough foundation for this impressive hymn. Interspersed by brutal breaks and d...

Picture Credit: Daverage J. Normal   Daverage J. Normal - DarkStars Release Date: June 14, 2021 Length: 04:29 Genre: Glitch Origin: London , England With his third single "DarkStars", London's Daverage J. Normal raises the anticipation for the upcoming debut EP "General Dysfunction" (release date: July 24, 2021). The track is a galactic journey exploring the environments of our universe's origin. Daverage J. Normal's "DarkStars" searches for undiscovered entities in distant galaxies which used to gigantic suns. Those stars were once brighter than human imagination can grasp, but now they have turned to "DarkStars". The cosmic exploration trip is musicked via synthetic bass lines as dark as antimatter and electronic glitch noises passing by like meteorites and space debris. Daverage J. Normal's ride through space is not linear. Instead, tempo and direction change frequently. Thus, you can imagine how the galactic vessel has to dodg...

Picture Credit: ALIMA   ALIMA - Who Am I Now? Release Date: May 06, 2021 Label: selfrelease Format: Digital Length: 20:59 Genre: R'n'B / Glitch Origin: Falmouth , England The five-track EP on hand is the debut release by Cornwall's producer and musician Alima Dove . ALIMA has packed the EP with a dynamic mix of R'n'B, Glitch, Rap, Grime, and artistic sound constructs. On five songs, the gifted artist creates a versatile cocktail of atmospheric, hypnotizing, and powerful sounds. The result is sweeping blow, a timeless set of anthems for the clubs, for the street, for your next workout. Regarding the vocals which often flow between mesmerizing chants and forceful rap, ALIMA somehow reminds me of Aaliyah, and M.I.A. - two absolute legends. But ALIMA cannot be reduced to these comparisons at all; neither does her music sound like a modern-day copy of either of those two artists. The experimenal beats that Alima Dove  has produced for her debut EP derive from the vibran...

Picture Credit: Roi Bars   Roi Bars - Run from the Police Release Date: May 21, 2021 Length: 02:45 Genre: Electro Punk / Dubstep Origin: San Diego , California , USA In his latest single, San Diego's Roi Bars (aka Rodrigo Bars) deals with corruption, malpractice, and caprice by the police. Originally from Mexican town Guadalajara, the Caliornia-based musician takes on his experience he has made on both sides of the Mexican-US border. Thus, "Run from the Police" is a song expressing the frustration about unjust treatment by those whose job should be to protect the peope instead of harrassing them. What starts with a Latin trumpet, becomes an uptempo Electro Punk anthem. Those of you who know the German music scene a bit, might find parallels to Berlin's Egotronic in the song. The dynamic soundscape perfectly fits the movement of the first-person camera in the music video which follows a person's try to get away from the police. Before the last chorus, Roi Bars im...

Picture Credit: NKOS   NKOS - From Dust to Life Release Date: May 21, 2021 Label: Beatbuzz Records Format: Cassette / Digital Length: 43:18 Genre: Post Punk / Darkwave / Industrial What was once "a pan-national studio-based project" (cf. NKOS on Bandcamp ) is now a band.  Put on your dancing shoes and luminiscent outfits for NKOS. Powered by the harmony of global connection and the internet, the band has now released their first album "From Dust to Life" via Beatbuzzrecords. The eight-track album contains the previously released singles " Little Miss Numb ", " BOW (Brave Old  World) ", " Lonely Ghost-Self ", " Can't Wait ", and four new tracks. The soundscapes on "From Dust to Life" are as versatile as life on Earth, and as dark as the dystopian future we are moving towards. And yet, the music is motivating, dynamic, energetic, as if NKOS invited us on an excessive dance - a dance in the dungeons below the ruin...

Picture Credit: Not Now Norman / Geo Moon Not Now Norman & Geo Moon - Run Boy Release Date: February 19, 2021 Length: 03:50 Genre: Alternative Rock / Drum'n'Bass Some of you might remember that Not Now Norman were recently featured in the Discoveries of the Week . With the recent single "Run Boy", the Alternative Rock band from Berwick upon Tweed is presenting something very special to us. Producer Geo Moon contacted Not Now Norman vocalist Taylor  via social media to request this collaboration. Hence, Geo Moon wrote a melody that is inspired by the scene from GoT in which King's Landing is attacked by the dragons. This cinematic soundscape is beautifully refined by the melodic and power Alternative Rock by Not Norman, and especially by Taylor 's stunning vocals. The result is an impressively unique sound between dynamic Drum'n'Bass and powerful Modern Metal. "Run Boy" is a shiny gem not only for fans of Game of Thrones. Content from the...