This wonderful designed double CD digi-pack is also the very first release made by Thonar Records and offers a breathtaking work exhibition of signed artist or ones from the scene worth to be checked out. Hailing from Bavaria, Thonar Records is a brand new label committed to Ambient/Neofolk/Martial/Experimental/Industrial/Noise. With a New World Order all artists present one track, some of them are rare releases or even unreleased gems. New World Order is limited on 999 copies and if you order this compilation via the label’s own mailorder you will get a bonus CD-R with another three tracks.
The label’s own artists FALSE MIRROR and MOON are ready to release their albums in August.

The first CD presents the spherical, ambient side of Thonar Records. Many beautiful soundscapes enwrap the listener and just a few noisy experiments set accents. I especially like TONAL Y NAGUAL, who walk experimental electronic paths and create as wonderful as strange sound cascades with many different instruments and singings. FALSE MIRROR and NEBELKRONA are dreamingly beautiful. Also MY ASPHYXIA with its song Todesstrafe I found haunting. Cool industrial sound collages get softened by deep female singing, while Towards A New Horizon from PHRAGMENTS piles up threateningly. On the first CD were only two artists I couldn’t that much do with it. From the rest, every single one had its great moments.

Kicking off with INSTITUTION D.O.L. the second CD starts much heavier and initiates the Industrial/Noise part. Here, sounds are tearing at the listener (sometimes at nerves too), unsettle and destroy and disharmonies and dissonances reign supreme. Of course there are magic moments to find too, where you can’t get enough from the sounds and the repeat-button is the most pushed one. I loved INVISIBLE FRONT and ATROX (don’t mess with the Norwegian avant-garde metallers). ATOMTRAKT again turns out to be quite melodic and very spherical, like a crosser, a mediator between the worlds of the first and second CD. Same arguments go for the last three acts too, which close New World Order more spherical than noisy and know how to please.

Of course you can hardly conclude from one song what atmospheric quality an entire album of each artist might have. Many songs really sound promising, some quite bizarre, and this is not meant in a negative way. An entire album could be a nightmare or a grandiose sound experience.
Though, almost all tracks on New World Order have magic attractiveness, reveal many aspects and worlds in the Dark Ambient or Industrial scene respectively, so that you can already look forward to very upcoming release from Thonar Records.