Tons of tones—some dissolved in beats, some beatless treatments—in a continuous mix of current ambient and electronic goodies. Igloomag’s Alan Lockett, via audio-meddling alter ego, albient (mixcloud | soundcloud), pours more than a score of ambi-valent shapes and etheric waves into an occluded reverb-trail echo-veil mood-stream. Ambivalentine. Listen… New transmissions come from old familiars Boards [...]
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There’s something in the water in Norfolk, UK. Home to Luke Abbott, Nathan Fake and, relative newcomer, Magic Panda whose full length release on Tigerbeat6 previews below. With a sound encompassing techno, shoegaze, post rock and ambient it’s one for fans of all things ethereal and emotional. Full release is June 24, 2013—review to follow… [...]
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When modern jazz, classical music, elegant cutting edge electronica and free spirit merge. For the second installment of Sonic Exposure I caught up with Piano Interrupted—a promising UK-based outfit that breathes new life into electronically tweaked jazz—to talk about their debut album, improvisation, musical influences and what’s in the pipeline. Piano Interrupted is the brainchild [...]
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Unexpected Journey melts House structures, Blomeier utilising the mechanics of the sound as a canvas for his lucid abstractions. A bold and beyond the dancefloor 12” from a new talent. I fear for how many times I’ve typed the word Glasgow. Throughout my reviews this windswept city has come up time and time again. Perhaps it’s [...]
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Unexpected Journey melts House structures, Blomeier utilising the mechanics of the sound as a canvas for his lucid abstractions. A bold and beyond the dancefloor 12” from a new talent. I fear for how many times I’ve typed the word Glasgow. Throughout my reviews this windswept city has come up time and time again. Perhaps it’s [...]
Dooms Day doesn’t just create a picture of what the end of our known world might sound like, it accurately portrays a fine-tuned low-rumbling fissure of sonic booms that is simply hard to ignore. Back in July—2012 we wrote about E_LPHABET’s Middle Line, also released via the Greece-based 33 Recordings. What was then a full-throttle bass’n grit affair [...]
Fistful of Buddha is also yet another articulation in the continued evolution of the original Buddha Machine, which in its fourth-generation edition features loops extracted from this album. Co-creator (with FM3 partner Zhang Jian) of the instantly legendary Buddha Machine, Nebraska-born China hand Christiaan Virant has created a moody suite of chamber tunes that, like [...]
Tremble comes at you like a cloud of bacteria, nigh impossible to distinguish specific elements. Its only purpose is to move, spread, collide, and thrive. So the only thing to do is gaze deep into its midst without searching for a centre. Marc Barreca has mustered all manner of instruments and “sources,” both acoustic and [...]
When modern jazz, classical music, elegant cutting edge electronica and free spirit merge. For the second installment of Sonic Exposure I caught up with Piano Interrupted—a promising UK-based outfit that breathes new life into electronically tweaked jazz—to talk about their debut album, improvisation, musical influences and what’s in the pipeline. Piano Interrupted is the brainchild [...]
Tons of tones—some dissolved in beats, some beatless treatments—in a continuous mix of current ambient and electronic goodies. Igloomag’s Alan Lockett, via audio-meddling alter ego, albient (mixcloud | soundcloud), pours more than a score of ambi-valent shapes and etheric waves into an occluded reverb-trail echo-veil mood-stream. Ambivalentine. Listen… New transmissions come from old familiars Boards [...]
Sage Audio mastering studio, located in the heart of (Music City, USA) Nashville, Tennessee: offering high quality mastering services with very competitive pricing. My collaborator and I just finished our first project together. Being both born and raised in Los Angeles, California, we’ve had a fair amount of experience with mastering studios out west: providing [...]
In this new sonorous adventure, Rawmance and Lamanna explore radical assaultive sonic sound textures and obsessive echoing litanies connected to the true tradition of 80s pioneering works in sculpted industrial experimentalism, Гибель тургруппы Дятлова is a newly formed musical project coming from Rome, headed by Matéo Monteiro (alias Rawmance) and Luciano Lamanna with the contribution [...]
In this nocturnal sonic mosaic, fragments of post-rock, jazz, metal and classical music radiate, however, they are poured in small dosages and put together in such a mysterious way resulting in something esoteric. It’s hard to say the album belongs to any of these genres. Arresting fringe music at its strangest flow and shape. It [...]
White Mountain is addictive and wonderful, and if you’re into electroacoustic exploration, colorful ambient, or just searching after new and peculiar sonic worlds, bound to put you under a strong spell and become one of your favorite pearls in your collection. White Mountain is Úlfur Hansson’s debut under his own name. A sublime cinematic web [...]
A new rider on its aftershock wave, navigating borders between concrète-fabricated retro-fit experimentalism and newer ambient noise and electroacoustic improv, this Swiss pitch-shifter nicks shticks from forebears and harnesses them to current compositional structures, and more expansive drone templates. Membership of a collective sprung from the ashes of Pierre Schaeffer’s notorious Groupe—whose evolution the inquiring reader [...]
Digitalis have been on a roll lately with a slew of light-hearted releases and Sculpture’s Slime Code is a perfect example. There’s something just a little bit extra special about releases one initially dismisses based upon fleeting initial impressions, only to be inexplicably drawn back to them weeks, months or even years later for some [...]
Kloot Per W explores with a sense of musical adventure, investigating a series of styles across his career. In parts the album descends into farce, in others there is some real quality on show. An ambitious assortment from Antwerp. It can be easy for releases to be missed. Every week there is a stream of [...]
The melodies are structured to remain accessible, mysteriously distant yet oddly uplifting. Percussion and rhythms are sci-fi cerebral and, whilst unashamedly experimental in that Warp/Skam ethos, will have you busting your favorite robot moves and cranking up the volume (again). With seemingly no end in sight of unexpected releases in 2013, there comes another in [...]
Shuffling machine drum bleeps, low-end synth deformation, oscillators gone astray and rhythms breaking apart in a wash of percussive acrobatics. Shuffling machine drum bleeps, low-end synth deformation, oscillators gone astray and rhythms breaking apart in a wash of percussive acrobatics—Jeff Pils returns as Bogger, and per_haps is his finest snapshot EP yet. The title track [...]
It’s interesting to hear an artist like DRMCNT, one who bleeds various genre types together into a caustic concoction. Mighty Robot Recordings has been one of the stalwarts of Glasgow electronics. The west of Scotland label has been quiet for the last few years, going into silent running since 2010. But now the robots return [...]
Testtoon are doing what very few labels are. True the sounds of Ambient and Industrial are having a revival, but in many respect they are being relegated to digital releases. The Belgian imprint are bringing to wax evocative and engaging electronics and giving new artists the full vinyl treatment. As the Summer cracks through the [...]
Blakbody’s abstract vision of electronics—and the motion of molecules on offer—teases the listener (again) with what might hopefully be the workings of a full-length release. Blakbody inhabits microtonal space delivered by exp-electronics composed of the tiniest known substance—the atom. These atoms move into and out of focus around five sonic fractures detailed through UK-based Acre [...]
Layered feedback, looped vocal samples, soft rhythms, acoustic instrumentation, and full spectrum pad-work are all loosely sewn together into a beautiful patchwork of disparate and harmonious sounds. I, a relatively recent convert, who first experienced 2009′s Totems Flare, always had Clark down as a riff maestro, whose frenetic brand of techno somehow managed to sculpt a [...]
Hints of folk, electronica, guitar pop, jazz and even perhaps a touch of classical influences combine to make music that is, if not revolutionary then at least nice to listen to. This free release entitled Candles from London based outfit Talk In Colour is a rather nice acoustic electro pop melange that has a certain folky charm [...]
There’s something in the water in Norfolk, UK. Home to Luke Abbott, Nathan Fake and, relative newcomer, Magic Panda whose full length release on Tigerbeat6 previews below. With a sound encompassing techno, shoegaze, post rock and ambient it’s one for fans of all things ethereal and emotional. Full release is June 24, 2013—review to follow… [...]
Water and wine or oil and water? It swishes around—each artist has at least one very strong, very memorable track, but swallowed whole, all the ingredients of Instant Satisfunction blend tastily. Four-way split between dark beat acts Rioteer, Urbanfailure, Gotharman and Axiomid available in three different formats, including a spiffy round metal box. Smart stuff from [...]
Frigio Records has enjoyed a productive 2013, two releases already set to wax and more on the horizon. Juanpablo, the Madrid based boss of Frigio, has taken some time off from behind the synths to get behind the decks for Igloo. I recently had the pleasure of seeing Juanpablo DJ in Spain’s capital, the Columbian [...]
Abolition To Solution is a robust apocalypse of electronics that goes well beyond the confines of any one genre and explores the deep recesses of bass and beat. Sunao Inami—electronic music sculptor, founder and label operator of Japan-based Electo-ohm and a hot chili pepper farmer (believe it or not)—strives at expanding upon the limitless potential of [...]
Just as in his previous effort, Davide del Col explores the musical equivalent of religiously cryptic images of awakening to the supreme absolute, to ultimate realities. After a debut release signed on Silentes, Davide del Col is back with a new instantly recognizable and sonically thrilling dark ambient opus for the polish label Rage in [...]
Bass Anthropology presents a surplus of forward-thinking bass music that continues to propel itself into spiraling worlds of fluid abstraction. IDMf Beat Tapes sheds a half-dozen bass entities without spilling over into saturated or pretentious mainstream terrain. Keeping themselves firmly planted just beneath the soil, Bass Anthropology forages into tunnels of low-end that is centralized around [...]
The formation of One Electronica is allowing that network of talent across Ireland to grow, giving Belfast a new club night and introducing the faithful to some a new and interesting sounds. A few years back I fancied a return to University, almost five years ago to be exact. Ireland was still flourishing and “mature” students, [...]
