kubik

kubik

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Artist bio

01' KUBIK - Indonesian Band
Hailing from Bandung, Indonesia, KUBIK is the brainchild of FX.ADAM.J and LUCIMERS, they were childhood friends who have the same musical taste. They are combining elements of darkwave, heavy metal and electronica. Their music has re-defined the alternative music scene, as it stated in local newspapers as a band who changed the face of Indonesias music in the mid-90s. With the release of their most anticipated album in 2004, Velvet Words And Lies, they got a great review from the fans and the music media. Read more
Velvet Words And Lies, is a beauty of vindictive bile, a self-inflicted bruise and with modern textures of electronic music they create dark rock songs that are brimming with soulful emotion. No matter how complex the instrumentation or how unusual the sounds are, the music makes the songs easily accessible and intensely enjoyable.

02' KUBIK - Portuguese One-Man Band
Victor Afonso is a portuguese musician living in Guarda, a city lying near Serra da Estrela (Star Mountain) at some 1000 meters above the sea level. He has been releasing music under the name Kubik (2 albums) as well as in many other projects. Oblique Musique and Metamorphosia albums recorded as Kubik showed up a musician deeply inspired by cinema and also by a great variety of music, from eastern europe folk to contemporary drumnbass. This alloy allowed Kubik to develop a very personalized and surrealistic sound, which defies the listener imagination with a wave of references sequenced in a way that take shape in the form of musical pieces. Infinite Territory is his new release. It is a departure from earlier works, because here Victor Afonso decided to explore electronic music more close to the IDM genre. It is obvious from Infinite Territory that musicians like Amon Tobin or Aphex Twin play an important role as sources of inspiration. This EP is very well balanced between ambient soundscapes and bursts of drillnbass, showing Kubik at the maximum of his skills and inspiration. From phantasmagorical pieces like Bona Fide, to kinetically unstable tracks like Infernis, Plus Ultra and the surrealistic Non Hilum (perhaps the track more related with his previous works), Kubik shows up his personal view of what electronic music (or IDM) can be, with a great capability to create images in the mind of the listener, rather than being purely another kind of dance music. Infinite Territory is therefore a kind of a soundtrack of a lost science-fiction movie, lost in the outskirts of the galaxy (or, more precisely, of the mind), exploring lost territories and lost spirals that liewithin the more pristine forces of nature.

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