tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58233997626154505342012-02-16T11:15:26.609-08:00Robert Painhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16604739512479328232noreply@blogger.comBlogger81100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5823399762615450534.post-42960483333830488792011-12-25T10:42:00.001-08:002011-12-25T10:42:31.604-08:00<iframe width="520" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/k55F-QHMYTY?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5823399762615450534-4296048333383048879?l=robertpain.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Robert Painhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16604739512479328232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5823399762615450534.post-28869477634663008552011-12-25T09:36:00.001-08:002011-12-25T09:36:09.289-08:00<iframe width="100%" height="166" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" src="http://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F23715309&amp;auto_play=false&amp;show_artwork=false&amp;color=000000"></iframe><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5823399762615450534-2886947763466300855?l=robertpain.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Robert Painhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16604739512479328232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5823399762615450534.post-74571305656113269162011-12-25T09:32:00.001-08:002011-12-25T09:32:33.680-08:00<iframe width="520" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/U_x4xhV9vHc?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5823399762615450534-7457130565611326916?l=robertpain.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Robert Painhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16604739512479328232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5823399762615450534.post-83916983898050095832011-12-25T09:25:00.001-08:002011-12-25T09:26:40.179-08:00<iframe width="520" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/uzk27ZH53Fs?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5823399762615450534-8391698389805009583?l=robertpain.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Robert Painhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16604739512479328232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5823399762615450534.post-4307079739083086712011-12-23T05:38:00.001-08:002011-12-23T05:38:32.180-08:00<iframe width="100%" height="450" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" src="http://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Fplaylists%2F1429325&amp;auto_play=false&amp;show_artwork=true&amp;color=000000"></iframe><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5823399762615450534-430707973908308671?l=robertpain.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Robert Painhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16604739512479328232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5823399762615450534.post-53422601398832118612011-06-24T10:10:00.000-07:002011-06-24T10:12:18.417-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-25oTYXeVHNw/TgTE0K5pWRI/AAAAAAAAAAY/fQTuvNLn-TQ/s1600/podcast+robert+pain.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="274" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-25oTYXeVHNw/TgTE0K5pWRI/AAAAAAAAAAY/fQTuvNLn-TQ/s320/podcast+robert+pain.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://vacu-sessions.blogspot.com/2011/06/vacu-sessions-19-robert-pain.html">Listen or Download</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5823399762615450534-5342260139883211861?l=robertpain.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Robert Painhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16604739512479328232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5823399762615450534.post-54789302481923537132011-06-01T03:37:00.000-07:002011-12-15T07:36:23.436-08:00<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://darkfloor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/tpr_0051-400x400.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://darkfloor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/tpr_0051-400x400.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Inquisition EP</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Croatian artist&nbsp;<a href="http://soundcloud.com/rpain" style="color: #990000; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; text-transform: inherit;" target="_blank">Robert Pain</a>&nbsp;made quite the opening statement with his&nbsp;<a href="http://soundcloud.com/rpain/sets/black-queen/" style="color: #990000; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; text-transform: inherit;" target="_blank">Black Queen</a>&nbsp;album earlier this year. Self released and available for free it garnished a lot of praise within the darker techno underground, passing around message boards where it was universally praised. What I take to be its follow up is this; his&nbsp;<em style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Inquisition</em>&nbsp;EP for Czech netlabel<a href="http://transporta.technokracie.org/" style="color: #990000; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; text-transform: inherit;" target="_blank">Transporta</a>.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is very dark and captivating techno without being harsh or aggressive.&nbsp;<em style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Scena I</em>&nbsp;has that locked groove feel with a quite eerie whiney bleep throughout which reminds me of classic horror soundtrack themes.&nbsp;<em style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Scena II</em>&nbsp;goes into broken techno territory incorporating crypt-like space between the beats. This journey gets deeper and darker, verging on being unsettling. Thou Pain pushes the soundscape it never alienates itself enough that it retreats too far into harsh electronic abstraction and noise.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Third of the 4;&nbsp;<em style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Scena III</em>&nbsp;reverts back to more standard techno beat programming absolutely nailing the sounds on that hypnotic loop. As the track builds Pain works in the atmosphere and synths giving them a dusty almost otherwordly affectivity building in a spectral like melody in the final minutes.&nbsp;<em style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Scena IV</em>&nbsp;is a fitting end to this quartet of tenebrosity, bold drones overlay a restrained and focus beat.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All in all brilliant work and work that has firmly established Robert Pain on my radar of artists to watch. Available as free 320kbps MP3 this is highly recommended listening.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">_____________________________________</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://darkfloor.co.uk/download-robert-pain-%E2%80%93-inquisition-ep-transporta/">Review on Darkfloor</a></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #252525; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5823399762615450534-5478930248192353713?l=robertpain.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Robert Painhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16604739512479328232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5823399762615450534.post-62334571275220032902011-05-30T10:00:00.000-07:002011-12-15T07:27:23.021-08:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://transporta.technokracie.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/tpr_0051-80x80.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><img border="0" src="http://transporta.technokracie.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/tpr_0051-80x80.jpg" /></span></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Another as we think proud release comming out on</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><strong style="font-size: 13px;">&nbsp;Transporta Records</strong></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">! Four killing techno tracks from Zagreb based artist</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">&nbsp;</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><a href="http://robertpain.blogspot.com/" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Robert Pain</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">! Robert did a big boom with his album</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">&nbsp;</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><a href="http://www.discogs.com/Robert-Pain-Black-Queen/release/2823374" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Black Queen</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">, and now he strikes our ears again. Feel free to download and link this free release, and please leave us your comments under this post. Cheers.</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><a href="http://transporta.technokracie.org/2011/05/tpr005-robert-pain-inquisition-ep/">Info &amp; Download here</a></span></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5823399762615450534-6233457127522003290?l=robertpain.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Robert Painhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16604739512479328232noreply@blogger.com