After being hailed as one of the breakthrough artists for 2010 by De:Bug magazine, international press and DJ´s such as DJ Hell, Laurent Garnier and more, we are happy to say that Applescal has snuck back into his studio to record this second full length album for Traum.

Applescal began playing live raw acid sets before he started to fulfil his stated ambition to bring I.D.M. to the Netherlands. His live sets are famous there and already some UK journalists are calling him the Nathan Fake of the Netherlands.

This 22 year old from Amsterdam is known as a reclusive electronic musician who loves to stay in his self built “cave like” studio. These 13 new tracks are cinematic with moods ranging from uplifting and joyful tracks to dark, melancholic and claustrophobic ones.

Applescal featured various styles on his debut album ‘A Slave’s Commitment’, now his new album, although called a ‘A Mishmash Of Changing Moods’, has and last has evolved into a true masterpiece of storytelling! Working harder on a conceptual level has allowed Applescal to pull all the tricks out of the bag this time. The whole album oozes class and is a collection of music that does not let you go until the very end.
Miraculously crafted, it swings between different moods but flows on a steady course.

Starting with ‘The Curle In Me’ – a driving, quirky drum & bass influenced track that works with a disturbing deepness and melancholy which gives room to speculate how the album will evolve and what kind of direction it will take. ‘A Former Curse’ is a short interlude which comes across like a falling star, tumbling and spinning around it’s own axis hysterically until it is burnt out. ‘Dialeague’ is a heavy and mighty grinding caterpillar of a track, still almost shy. It steadily discovers fairylike melodies that are pushed through a tiny hole. Throughout, Applescal skilfully builds up a dynamic which is determined by repetition and a great deal of unbelievable uplifting moments.

‘The Key Of Genes’, picks up this uplifting spirit but exaggerates it to an extend that defies expectations. The superb composed melody which creates a feeling of fairylike beauty and detachment is unearthly… putting Applescal next to a musician such as the Aphex Twin.
‘MC Iron’ is a kind of “breeding” track which feels like a trip through an impenetrable jungle, a soundtrack for sure, haunting and full of beauty and tension.

‘IB Ok’ is full of droning noises, engine like, heavily spinning until it gives up it’s life… another interlude. ‘In Theory’ is somehow a beat that you would not venture to think could work for more that 10 seconds, but somehow by magic Applescal pulls the strings with so much elegance it could make you cry.

‘Roofs Of Heaven’ is a piece of heavy psychedelic rock, and sounds as if Detroit’s MC5 were on a mission to conquer the world. But suddenly the tracks turns it’s direction and goes all psychedelic with great organ parts and feedback. May The Doors be with you in this tune… Jim Morrison would sound great on this track.

‘The Flop’ feels like a hard and edgy piece of metal and it’s beat is like a smack in the face. Hard to imagine that it turns toward an almost Krautrock flavoured sound! When it changes it’s beat constantly that is when we really give up. This guy from Amsterdam is one hell of a musician! ‘The Storm Is Yours’ is a fantastic avant-garde “hurdy gurdy” piece of music and we really think these emotions and styles clashing are phenomenal!
‘Observing Enlightenment’ is true to it’s title, a kind of observation of a phenomenon which articulates itself in a humming sound that trembles and shakes slightly underlined with a jazzy percussion loop. Superb.

‘Black Spirals’ is a dark planet of a track, slowly moving as in slow motion and later revealing it’s earthly desires! It is almost a piece of easy listening with very sweet moments and hilarious changes of patterns and dynamics. ‘Her Foreverness’ feels like a goodbye song, kneeling down, paying tribute to a higher spirit. It is playful and at the same time mysterious and haunting. ‘Door Weer En Wind’ consists of two “parts”, both come with a cinematic-soundtrack feel… almost classic electronica a la Terry Riley or whoever phrased the term “minimal music”
in the seventies… Applescal has for himself put his foot in the door also in this genre.

‘A Mishmash Of Changing Moods’ has the fresh and lively spirit of handcrafted electronica, and even if made by digital software, Applescal insists that his music should always sound analogue.

Released 19 April 2010