Such Unimportant Things Like Us/To Make Right What's Left

artist: ICR

title: Such Unimportant Things Like Us / To Make Right What's Left

label: Fokuz

catalogue: FOKUZ2011LPP1/FOKUZ2011LPP2

format: digital

date: 09/2011

country: The Netherlands

info:

Such Unimportant Things Like Us is ICR's most mature (and probably his final) drum and bass work to date, incorporating the very essence of his love of precisious drumworks and sensual musicality. The album is built around one topic that can be easily read out from the titles: it's about love and struggle for acceptance. As with this final chapter he closes his dnb roots, a new stage is already set: To Make Right What's Left is a necessary step forward, focused on 4/4 territory and other mid-tempo genres. The trademark deep and cinematic ICR sound remains the same, but in new forms. The double album is the best way to gain insight ICR's mind and soul thru his forward-thinking music in full spectre.

cover art:

aliz buzas http://narancskalacs.blogspot.com/

tracklist:

Such Unimportant Things Like Us

01. Such Unimportant Things Like Us

02. Still Unloved

03. Skin Shades To Red

04. Until It’s Untold

05. Lost Balance

06. Love, Hate and Between

07. Dying Breed (with Salmz)

08. Concept Of Time

09. Surrender To Your Weakness

10. All Unloved

11. My Only Bad Is The Lack Of All Your Good

To Make Right What’s Left

01. Semi-Converse Confession

02. E Voce Se Entrega

03. Je Vous Souhaite Des Silences

04. Yesterday’s Man

05. Sunset Like Supper

06. Continuity-Discontinuity

07. Under Twenty-Six

08. Look So Good

09. I’m In Love With A Sentence But Forgot What It Means

10. The Risk Of Speaking Nonsense

11. Little Panda’s Echo

12. Je Vous Souhaite Des Silences (Headshotboyz remix)

13. Headshotboyz – Meanwhile In My Happy Place (ICR remix)

preview:

http://soundcloud.com/iciri/such-unimportant-things-like

http://soundcloud.com/iciri/to-make-right-whats-left-album

available:

http://www.beatport.com/release/such-unimportant-things-like-us/401852

http://www.beatport.com/release/to-make-right-whats-left/401851

http://www.junodownload.com/products/such-unimportant-things-like-us/1793980-02/

http://www.junodownload.com/products/to-make-right-whats-left/1794043-02/

interviews:

http://www.electronicbeats.net/music/interviews/icr-releases-double-album-on-fokuz-as-a-milestone-in-his-music

http://www.kmag.co.uk/editorial/news/icr-releases-double-album-on-fokuz.html

mini site:

http://www.impulsecreator.hu/icr/5/

Between Nowhere And Goodbye

artist: ICR

title: Between Nowhere And Goodbye

label: Misspent Music

catalogue: MISSPENT015

format: digital download

date: 04/2010

country: Hungary

"I hope he'd gone to find you, to ask you one more time to forgive him... but maybe he didn't have anything left in his heart. I just hope he found some place where he could find a little peace: a place set in the cedars and oak trees, somewhere between nowhere and goodbye..." ~ Million Dollar Baby

press release:

Misspent Music, a lighthouse for the discerning drum & bass lover, proudly present "Between Nowhere And Goodbye", Zoltan Gal aka ICR's second Misspent album. Beauty beneficially oozes out of all these thirteen tracks, as you are questioned: what lies between nowhere and goodbye? Soul has always been penultimate to Zoltan's work. Here he experiments with d&b's format, with "One Love", the inaugural dubstep offshoot., and acclaimed production duo Solar Empire and Med School's Minotaur revisiting and reinvention "Frames Of Mind" and "Almost There", work trance towards triumph. Packaging isn't required to pamper this- everlasting affection already awaits you. ~ words by Muttley Subversion (http://subvertcentral.blogspot.com/)

Tracklist:

01. You Told Me I Was Beautiful

02. Light Waves

03. Pathetic

04. Frames Of Mind (Solar Empire remix * original appears courtesy of Covert Operations)

05. Psychedelic Trust

06. Two Steps Backwards

07. Almost There (Minotaur remix * original appears courtesy of Influence Records)

08. Thoughts Returning

09. Calm Alarm

10. Watch Me, Absurd

11. One Love

12. Between Nowhere and Goodbye

all tracks are written and produced by Zoltan Gal

track 4 is remixed by James Clements and Joe Novelozo

track 7 is remixed by Minotaur artwork by Laszlo Gal

audio:

http://www.drumandbass.hu/icr/misspentmusic/misspent016/

Something About Nothing CD

Szép csendben megérkezett ICR harmadik albuma is, a Something About Nothing. A minőséget megszoktuk, nemcsak mi, hanem a nemzetközi fejek is, az igazi különlegesség pedig az, hogy kivételesen ez a lemez fizikai formátumban is megjelent. Hiper ritka, hiper olcsó!

https://www.deep.hu/catalog/ICRCD001

http://www.drumandbass.hu/icr/album

Something About Nothing

artist: ICR

title: Something About Nothing

label: Misspent Music

catalogue: MISSPENT014

format: digital download / limited CD (only in Hungary)

date: 09/2009

country: Hungary

"It was not in his nature to make the mistake of doing something when there was nothing to be done" ~ Robert Speaight

press release:

Zoltan Gal steps forward with his third studio LP "Something About Nothing" and proceeds to stamp his ICR signature all over.

Something About Nothing this is not, something about something it definitely is. From the semi-beatless opener of "Gain" to the ambient conclusion of "Loss" you are taken on a journey of atmospheres, textures and lovingly crafted beat trickery which has become a staple of his work. That said this is no one trick pony as ICR delivers melody in abundance and this is what truly stands out and comes through in tracks such as "Sense Of Touch" and "Epilog (Dazzle Me)". In a period of drum and bass that seems to be swamped with minimal offerings Zoltan is not afraid to deliver multi-layered breaks of the highest quality which hark back to the halcyon days of the genre. The intricate layering of samples and textures all add to give the LP an epic story like feel which ICR always tries to weave through his work.

This is good honest drum and bass from one of Europe's best artists, in every sense of the word. ~ words by Tony Justice (Modern Urban Jazz, UK).

Tracklist:

01. Gain

02. Weight Of Soul (Gain)

03. Light Gives It All

04. Angels

05. Think I'm Special

06. Sense Of Touch

07. Time Takes It All (Protect Me)

08. No More

09. Epilog (Dazzle Me)

10. Weight Of Soul (Loss)

11. Loss

audio:

http://drumandbass.hu/icr/misspentmusic/misspent014/

"This is really really good! Some of the best drum programming I've ever heard! Very good listening music, worthwile to check it!"~ Tony Colman/London Elektricity (Hospital Records, UK)

"ICR is one of the most talented and original subversive jungle producers coming up with very rich atmospheres and fresh melodies. The man's also rocking some dope breakworks, and his new album is just another proof of that: a full package of ultra-dope melodic jungle of today.

This stuff right here is Hungary's finest.

ICR rocks!"~ Fanu (Lightless Recordings, FIN)

"Really enjoying this album! I particularly like the track "Dazzle Me". Very cool."~ Lynx (Soul:R, UK)

"Stripped, yet not stripped at the same time. As usual the cinematic quality is A1! Nice work, Zoltan!"~ ESB (Detuned Radio, CAN)

"Loving this album! True talent!"~ DJ Trax (Audio Buffet, UK)

"ICR takes drum and bass where it was meant to go." ~ Gerald Belanger/Kinder Atom (Nice+Smooth/Metro Breaks, CAN)

Stumbled Upon Me

artist: ICR
title: Stumbled Upon Me
label: Fragments
catalogue: FRGMNT051
format: CD
date: 04/2007
country: Ukraine

info:
Has been releasing music since more than three years now on such labels as Breakbeat Science, Basswerk, Nerve, Offshore, Good Looking, Fokuz, Exegene to name but a few. After last year's debut LP on Covert Operations - not to mention his acclaimed free diary albums - ICR is back with a new CD. Stumbled Upon Me features 12 unreleased tracks, some old and never heard before, some new, but all in the usual ICR-favour which you might know well for now. The CD will be released in April 2007 only in Ukraine.

tracklist:
01. Touch The Sky
http://www.drumandbass.hu/leech.php3?zid=913
02. Aphelion
http://www.drumandbass.hu/leech.php3?zid=912
03. Snowdrop (remix)
http://www.drumandbass.hu/leech.php3?zid=911
04. Second Chances
http://www.drumandbass.hu/leech.php3?zid=910
05. Distant Grace
http://www.drumandbass.hu/leech.php3?zid=909
06. On Your Side
http://www.drumandbass.hu/leech.php3?zid=908
07. The Blues
http://www.drumandbass.hu/leech.php3?zid=907
08. Pointless
http://www.drumandbass.hu/leech.php3?zid=906
09. Four Some
http://www.drumandbass.hu/leech.php3?zid=905
10. Fading Aquarius
http://www.drumandbass.hu/leech.php3?zid=904
11. Stumbling Hungarian 7000 Miles From The Caribbean
http://www.drumandbass.hu/leech.php3?zid=903
12. Every End
http://www.drumandbass.hu/leech.php3?zid=902



http://fantomas.com.ua/music/i26406.html

Daytrip

artist: ICR
title: Daytrip
label: Covert Operations
catalogue: COVCD001
format: CD
date: 07/2005
country: USA

info:

Covert Operations have several full length artist albums lined up, the first of which is "Daytrip" by the incredibly prolific ICR, whom you my also know from his releases on Offshore, Nerve, Good Looking, Basswerk, and his forthcoming 12" on Covert Operations Vinyl Subscription Series 2. Covering a vast range of styles and sounds, "Daytrip" is going to be an LP you'll be talking about and listening to for years to come. There's 14 tracks (including interludes) that span 74 minutes of aural pleasure. This is gonna be a CD only release, with vinyl versions of a handful of the tracks available on the vinyl subscriptions we're offering! This is unrelated to the vinyl subscription scheme, which we are still take orders for. We have these CD's in hand, ready to ship immediately. Remember, you can only buy it directly from us! buy it now!

tracklist:

01. Before Noon (Insert)
02. Drab Somedays
03. Frames Of Mind
04. Gaps
05. Dusk (Insert)
06. Dislike
07. Alcora
08. Fast & Furious
09. Dawn (Insert)
10. Uprise
11. New Day
12. Shining Down On Me
13. Noon (Insert)
14. Primavera