Phantasystem
Layers Of Silence

4
...according to our Ant on 20 May 2010.

While the conversation in the office debates a potential new location for our bin (we've found one!!! Whoopee!!) , I escape and listen to this and it's pretty lush sounding too. The work of German based, Brazilian native, Jônatas Protes, this is some fresh sounding electronic music. Wearing his influences on his sleeve he's achieved a pristine production sound and wonderful sense of rhythm, recalling the non-breakcore & more melodic elements of The Flashbulb and Mochipet. Lots of dreamy and heady synth sounds to drift away to. A most pleasant listen from a promising artist.

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What their label says...

PhantaSystem are Jônatas Protes (music) and Cris Rissatto (visuals).
Jônatas Protes is a 25 year old german literature student who started doing electronic music in 2007 influenced mostly by IDM sounds (Aphex Twin, Boards of Canada, Crisopa, Ghostly International and n5MD are in his list of influences), and the rhythms of his environment, in Araraquara (São Paulo), Brazil.
He mainly uses laptop and virtual soft to make his music, defined by himself as fusing ambient music, shoegazer textures, vaporous melodies and complex – sometimes almost chaotic – drum patterns that reminds in some parts the percussions from the place he comes from (Sapphx), contrasting with other spacious tracks filled with synths and melody (Butterflies Ballet).
We can say that this is a kind of IDM, but, as we usually try to do, with a special touch because his cultural heritage and influences.

Cris Rissatto is an autodidact media artist in charge of the visual work (in live sets, images of the cover) and they work both sides close, music and images.

"Layers Of Silence" was released as a 5 track demo in 2009, and now, as his official debut, a 7 tracks EP / CDr 3" with some previously unreleased titles.

Tracklisting

1. Rrose
2. Romy
3. Maya
4. Whisper of Stars
5. Sapphx
6. Butterflies Ballet
7. PS