MIMETIC MUTE "POSITIVE" & "NEGATIVE"  -  Reviews extracts


"entre racines industrielles et tentations symphoniques, entre science fiction et tribalisme, un voyage aussi visuel que sonore. une merveille." Jean-Francois Micard / ELEGY nr9 - France (avril 2000)

"Negative est, franchement, un album tr?s impresionnant. (.) Une tr?s belle oeuvre qui laisse transpara?tre une habileté pour le métissage rarement égalée." Yanik Trudeau / Kortex

"M?lant sons déchirés et rythmiques adéquates, Mimetic arrive au seuil de la techno dansante. Habilement, il s'abstient de franchir le pas." BLAH BLAH News - France / mai 2000

"John Cage, Black Lung, les pionners de l'electro-acoustique, Haujobb, Atlas Project, Aphex Twin, c'est toute une foule d'artistes parfois obscurs mais passionnants auquels on pense ? travers ce NEGATIVE, un univers en soi." 
Jean-Henri Maisonneuve / MAGIC Nr41 / - France / mai 2000

".une succession d'ambiances électroniques, un flot d'harmonie étrange et transpercées par des BPM's dont la linéarité est souvent contrecarrée par des breaks impromptus. Toute l'atmosph?re de cet album est basée sur ce 
contraste, sur cette bipolarité." Laurent Diouf - CODA - France - 09/2000

".les hauteurs inspirées de <<negative>>.Inspirée par la ville de Berlin, sa techno futuriste et prfondément originale m?le des sons industriels et des ambiances hallucinantes pour un résultat des plus saisissants." Rahma Khazam - VIbrations n°26 - Switzerland - summer 2000

"Etno hip hop gotico (la title track), crossover non stereotipato ('Dubious'), technologia mutevole ('Filter Me'), ambient in procinto di esplodere ('Zuckung') e sotterranea ('Chilling'). Pi? positivo che negativo!" MUSICCLUB no. 98, Italy (Luglio 2000)

"Inoltre trovo rimandi e spunti anche da altri generi che pero assemblati in modo ottimali danno delle particolari risultanze che rendono questo lavoro molto personale e curato. Parti lente e atmosferiche vengono alterate a ritmi 
marcati ed incalzanti che presentano questo progetto come un perfetto viaggio attraverso la paura, la sensualita e il mistero." Serena - Rosa Selvaggia - Italy (Summer 2000)

"Let me here and now praise Soudan for his versatility and ability to present such an impressive mixture of styles and moods into a coherent whole." Incursion (spring 2000)

" The sounds hint at a collapse of trust in human beings and their electronic devices. I feel the technology almost turning against us." Wreck This Mess, The Netherlands (Summer 2000)

"Some of the tracks here rumble in an upbeat manner similar to, say, Haujobb's brand of Industrial Dance music, but there is much more to Mimetic's sound than just some rolling rhythms and phased analogue synthesis. (...) there's plently here to surprise on the third, fourth or twenty-fourth listen. " Freq1C - FREQ Music - UK (september 2000)

"There are many groups who fancy themselves as being at this level of "in touch" with the mysteries of beat electronics, but few who achieve it with such an intriguing sense of twist. " Rotcod Zzaj - issue #44 - Dick Metcalf - 
USA (september 2000)

"A complex technoid work merged with ambient and orchestral elements along strong industrial hooks supported by spoken words: this is the work of Mimetic Mute. (...) Positive is a brilliant work of electronic music which may be compared with some work of Recoil, but darker and more abrasive, or, even, Autechre with a less minimal approach. This said, Mimetic Mute remains alone in its field. Here, its creator has build an unpredictable album where 
each track is totally unique and different; but obviously adheres to the next one." Final Man for Electroage mag - Canada (Summer 2000)

"Bored of mainstream electro/industrial.? Get it now, and experience the newstream!" David Joly -MiSSiNG LiNK - Belgium (September 2000)

"Jerome Soudan (Von Magnet, Column One) betreibt sein Solo-projekt Mimetic so variabel, dass er auf die clevere Idee gekommen ist, den Projektnamen je nach Ausrichtung der gerade produzierten Musik jewils einen passenden Beinamen heinzuzufügen." Dirk Hoffmann - Zillo - july/august 200 - Germany