Flint Glass + Polarlicht 4.1 + Transistor : Zoran's Equation [2011]

Zoran’s Equation is a collaborative instrumental album from France’s Flint Glass and Germany’s Polarlicht 4.1 with Transistor (Polarlicht’s side project), and the results are an album that plays like an experience rather than just music. The static, ambient, and dark sounds on each of the album’s 10 selections seem to create sci-fi worlds from your favorite video game or movie, transporting you with ease and precision. While it may not be for everyone, anyone looking for a musical experience is likely to enjoy this fantastic, soundtrack-like collection of songs.

When beginning to listen to Zoran’s Equation’s opener, “Mange-Machine,” it is very obvious that the album is presenting a story of some kind with the sounds of air, faint talking, static, and clicks and beeps that sound like that of a machine being built. The sound is haunting and almost sinister in nature. The third song on the album, “Which Does Not Exist, Exists” brings with it a feeling of discovery just as its title suggests and almost bounces you into the moments of said discovery, while “The Ice People” is ripe with the sounds of footsteps and what could be machinery or maybe stalactites falling in a frozen cavern; incredibly effective and interesting. Listening further on, the album drags you deeper into the various dark sounds and ambience, perfectly illustrated by “Isolation” and “Aurore Australe.” The final track on the album, “Sleeping Beauty” is a beautiful creation of contemplative sounds that lead you through to the final seconds of the music and leave you to contemplate the world you’ve just traversed as well as the meanings that could be drawn up from its sounds.

Flint Glass, Polarlicht 4.1, and Transitor make a great combination, creating ambient, dark, industrial soundtrack music that captures as well as entertains. The music itself beautifully illustrates its own world and draws you in, full of depth and ambience. This collection isn’t for everyone, but those who are willing to explore it with an open mind will find it hard to tear themselves away from the world of Zoran’s Equation.


01 Mange-Machine 5:18
02 Immortals 4:36
03 Which Does Not Exist, Exists 4:58
04 The Ice People 4:37
05 Gondwana 3:35
06 Isolation 4:15
07 Aurore Australe 4:41
08 Frozen Bodies 4:09
09 Lost Souls 5:54
10 Sleeping Beauty 4:18


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Flint Glass : From Beyond EP [2009]

01  Al Takwi 5:49
02  Ghroth 0:16
03  Hypnos 5:42
04  Yegg Ha 0:15
05  Al Azif 6:54
06  Xurhn 0:28
07  The Hound 10:00


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Tzolk'in : Tonatiuh [2010]

1 Tonatiuh 8:51
2 Quetzacoatl 7:28
3 Mictlantecuhtli 5:12
4 Tezcatlipoca 6:07
5 Tlazolteotl 6:17
6 Xipe Totec 6:39
7 Nanahuatzin 8:15

“Tonatiuh”, the newest album from this collaborative project between Empusae and Flint Glass, does have one thing in common with mantra music of this sort: atmosphere. Of course, the oppressive humidity of untamed jungles is hardly the same as the glittering, rainbow-spattered waterfalls and soft bird calls that the weak of purpose pursue so wholeheartedly, and it is that unbridled ferocity that lurks within the sweeping vistas painted by this pair, peppered with neo-primitive rhythms that excite the soul and unleash adrenal secretions in the listener. Mood music? Definitely. Just not the mediocre, safe moods society would have us celebrate. This album activates a hidden aspect of the subconscious, a primitive memory-form that recalls the bloody daily struggle between man and nature – not for supremacy, but simply for survival. Powerful, stirring stuff, indeed.


The Aztec imagery in the track listing (from “Mictlantecuhtli” through to “Quetzalcoatl”, an entire pantheon of Mesoamerican gods are present) and the album artwork, not to mention the very name Tzolk’in being lifted from the very calendar that predicts the end of the world in just under two years, remains perfectly valid, however. As the press release so cheerfully points out, it is estimated that approximately 20,000 human sacrifices were performed by this enigmatic civilisation annually at its peak, and the blood fever associated with this is an undeniable presence looming behind the creeping advance of Tzolk’in’s music.


The broad spectrum of sounds created by Tzolk’in on “Tonatiuh” will appeal to followers of industrial, ambient and even some psytrance; it’s a wonderful illustration of tribal sensibilities, executed in a contemporary, cutting-edge electronic medium. That said, wearers of tie-dyed shirts, salon-matted dreadlocks and other alien abductees may not have the stomach for this beautifully chilling record…
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Flint Glass : Circumsounds [2008]

01. Polygon - Gestern (Remix By Flint Glass)
02. Thermidor - Plenum Aquae (Remix By Flint Glass)
03. Eretsua - Travelling Light (Remix By Flint Glass)
04. Zonk't - Air Field (Remix By Flint Glass)
05. Shizuka- Les Esprits (Remix By Flint Glass)
06. Empusae - Beauty-Of-Decay (Remix By Flint Glass)
07. Suicide Inside - Angel (Remix By Flint Glass)
08. Prospero - Contagion & Rebirth (Remix By Flint Glass)
09. HIV+ - Havoc2027 (Remix By Flint Glass)
10. Disharmony - Sacred Truth (Remix By Flint Glass)
11. HIV+ - Doors Of Perception (Remix By Flint Glass)
12. Displacer - Fueled (Remix By Flint Glass)
13. SCI-FI Industries - Questions And Answers (Remix By Flint Glass)
14. Tzolk'in - Zotz (Remix By Flint Glass)
15. OTX - Blood For Oil (Remix By Flint Glass)

"The music of Flint Glass especially appeals to the imagination and it will not be much of a surprise that Flint Glass is a much sought after remixer for other projects. On Circumsounds the best remixes of this talented French electronic project have been compiled for the first time. 

Thus you’ll hear a remake of the ‘Air Field’ track from the French experimental Zonk’t project, a remix of ‘Beauty of Decay’ from the befriended Belgian ritual-ambient industrial project Empusae, a ripped apart interpretation of ‘Angel’ from the industrial project Suicide Inside, two remixes of tracks from HIV+, with a remix of ‘Doors of Perception’ and the successful track ‘Havoc 2027’. 

Furthermore you will find remixes of tracks from the dark ambient project Thermidor, the experimental IDM/electronic project Eretsua, the French industrial project Shizuka, the Canadian IDM-electro-industrial act Prospero, the solid Slovakian EBM/IDM project Disharmony, the phenomenal IDM project Displacer, the Empusae vs Flint Glass revelation Tzolk’in, the adventurous Portuguese project Sci Fi Industries, and the French electronic alchemist OTX. You will notice on this release how Flint Glass has managed to integrate its typical enchanting sound in the various remixes from this musically diverse selection of artists."        >gothtronic.com

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Tzolk'in : Haab' [2008]

01. Muwan
02. Kumk'u
03. Uayeb
04. K'ank'in
05. Sotz
06. K'ayab
07. Yaxk'in
08. Xul

"... dark melancholic yet epic sounding soundscapes, with added ambient spheres and rhythms that ensure an exotic, either meditative or haunting tribal atmosphere. Ceremonial deep tones take you back in time to the world of the Mayas, while these tones are merging with the power of industrial music, kept together by the ritual rhythms that enhance the atmosphere of a thriving culture such as the Maya people once had."

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DOWNLOAD : Haab'

Tzolk`in : Tzolk`in [2004]

1. Etz'nab (6:16)
2. Imix (5:37)
3. Chikchan (5:18)
4. Kawak (6:57)
5. Kaban (5:55)
6. Lamat (6:58)
7. Ak'bal (13:21)
8. Chuwen (7:03)

Tzolk'in is a collaboration between Empusae and Flint Glass, artists who are known in the fields of dark ambient, contemporary ritualistic tribal music. This is a superb 8-track digipack mastered by the emblematic and enigmatic Ah Cama-Sotz in his Illektric.Toolz studio. The music can be described as an ambient but powerful and obsessive electronic piece.

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Flint Glass FREE DOWNLOAD (3 albums)

Flint Glass’ music tends to crawl under your skin, shapes the most fantastic images, and keeps challenging by means of an intelligent use of samples, rhythms and beats. With Flint Glass you find influences from the ambient of the ‘90’s as well as various forms of IDM, tribal and industrial rhythmic noise.


Gwenn Trémorin [Flint Glass]

2003 : Hierakonpolis + Dahshur EP


01 Hierakonpolis
02 Interlude1
03 Neuroscan
04 Interlude2
05 Dust Particles
06 Interlude3
07 Heliotrop
08 Interlude4
09 Amenemhat
10 Interlude5
11 Throw about
12 Interlude6
13 Middle Kingdom
14 Al Hasard
15 Closer
16 Philae
17 Germ Code
18 Saggara Temple

"This record is a trip through dark places, a moment of peace, a moment filled with well-constructed songs and a moment of reflection. The music never relies on force, but is filled with faultless, ingenious music landscapes. You can compare this music with an act like Ah Cama-Sotz. 'Hierakonpolis' has become a beautiful record that is highly graded for its intensity, musical highlights and integrity."
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2006 : Nyarlathotep


01 R'lyeh La Morte
02 Neither Dead
03 Brain Speaking Machine
04 Azathoth
05 De Vermis Mysteriis
06 Ubbo-Sathla
07 Nephren-Ka
08 Hastur
09 Alhazred
10 Yuggoth
11 Angular Space
12 Shudde M'ell
13 Cthulhu Dawn
14 Yog-Sothot
15 Slither Chaos
16 Brain Death (Remix By Ah Cama Sotz)
17 Germ Code (Remix By Disharmony)
18 Brain Speaking Machine (Remix By Xabec)
19 R'lyeh La Morte (Remix By This Morn Omina & Empusae)

"Flint Glass is an ambient-industrial project which produces auditive occult cinematography... The music is quiet and explosive at the same time. It does not come to an eruption but it squeeks and cracks in real industrial style. This sometimes reminds of Mlada Fronta and Ah Cama-Sotz too. The CD is packed full with heavy ambient rhythm soundscapes and is a definite recommendation!."
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PASSWORD : niceolum

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2007 : Information Gigabyte (w/ Telepherique)


01 Kunsthirn (3:49)
02 Dendral (3:35)
03 Future Shock Syndrom (2:46)
04 User Protection (7:14)
05 Dominance Of Digital (6:08)
06 Information Burn-Out (6:53)
07 Magnetic Migration (5:00)
08 Fear Of Information (7:44)
09 Terror Of Terabytes (5:59)
10 Tape In Transition (6:06)
11 Internet Collapse (6:38)

"A fluent symbiosis of analog and digital, Germany and France, Telepherique and Flint Glass. All the before-mentioned elements stay within the mix, but the power gets more and more overwhelming as the rhythms get noisier, louder and more impressive."
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FYI. this is a fave artist of g/f of mine. She thinks Gwenn is as cool and cute as me... whatever (*_*)
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