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Obscure lore (king remixes and mystic tellings)

12 Tracks, IDM Breakbeat Remixes from the heart of the mountains

In Moria, Lorien or even in Mordor people would be charmed of having a musician as Firnwald to tell their feats. This bard of the XXI century is well known in the scene for his work as manager of the austrian netlabel Laridae where he has published several releases that define the style and personality of Firnwald.

Idm epic, complex, mutating toward drum´n´bass or metal thanks to guitars, basses and instruments from the central european folklore. In [Miga33] “Obscure Lore” we can enjoy a very developed work that includes 5 remixes of the track that gives name to this release, signed by Kabelton, Schlangetatoo, Der Reisende, Leisure-B and Schaua, adding more interest to this fantastic work.

Miga Netlabel | 06.2009 | http://www.miga-label.org

A hero in playmood

12 Tracks, IDM Breakbeat and my Staubsauger

” Firnwald hat etwas geheimnisvolles, verspieltes an sich, so als wäre er direkt aus Grimms Märchen in die elektronische Feenlandschaft umgezogen.
Brüche, Clicks, Breaks und stimmungsvolles Knacken im Gewand von Trip- bis -Hop. Immer durchzogen von lustigem Instrumentarium, Alltagsgeräuschen und versteckten Vokal-Samples. Avantgarde meets Pop-Jazz nur mit den Mitteln der Sampling-Kultur?” radiofabrik.at

hippocamp197 | 02.2009 | http://www.hippocamp.net

The king of wordless tales

15 Tracks, IDMediaeval Metal Swords and bagpipes

“Firnwald furthered the IDM’ish neo-folk theme of its predecessor “The Secrets of Bardic Trickery” and presents an atmospheric sound collage, combining track and sound structures on the very edge of IDM, Ambient, Death Metal and Folklore.“

laridae44 | 11.2008 |  http://www.laridae.at/

The secrets of bardic trickery

13 Tracks, IDMediaeval Breakbeats and misty fields

From cold and distant to uncomfortably close, Firnwald thoroughly mixes the signals on his fourth album, The Secrets of Bardic Trickery. It’s a bizarre, at times sinister travelogue through fragile ambient woodlands and smoking industrial ruins. Certainly not for the faint of heart, but brave listeners will be rewarded with tracks like the epic “Bergpfad” which meanders from the paranoid to the almost-but-not-quite peaceful. Firnwald is reluctant to allow the listener to relax completely, and every poorly lit passage seems to hide some new monster. Highly original and immaculately produced stuff.
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laridae32 | 02.2007 | http://www.laridae.at

elft

10 Tracks, IDM

Fresh IDM ambient from the austrian vaults by the hands of Firnwald.

enough064 | 02.2007 | http://scene.org/~ps/enough/

music for spacemines

15 Tracks, IDM and breaks from a titan, a moon of saturn.

hey why can’t space miners have sexual intercourse? Because there are hardly any female spaceminers… real hard man’s business, you know? new schemes of rhythms, extraordinary and visionary. Everything in a spacy mood.

laridae19 | 12.2006 | http://www.laridae.at

Beachburk

6 Tracks, holidays in kroatia

7 day holiday. 6 tracks done. well …

laridae15 | 08.2005 | http://www.laridae.at

Weidekinn

14 Tracks, Electronica

firnwald’s eagerly awaited debut release on laridae. a full length album that shows what the co-founder and official mastermind of laridae is capeable of. on 14 tracks, firnwald combines abstract idm-rhythms and strange audio samples with extremely sweet melodies, all merged together with (as he would say) “lots of love and violence”. music somewhere between idm, pop and ambient. cold but lovely. …

laridae13 | 05.2005 |  http://www.laridae.at

Gruenkonstrukt 02

14 Tracks, Hello

first. first. first. all done with a yamaha qy70. cute.

first album | 11.2002 |  only on archive.org