You Only Live Ice compellingly presents a landscape initially at rest, then draped, as if in timelapse, in dense tonal swathes, and wracked with electrostatic […]
Author: Alan Lockett
Tape Loop Orchestra :: Go Straight To The Light Of All That You Love (Facture)
Artfully as ever, with visuals—blotchy black and grainy grey photos, a figure walking down the middle of a city street, run-down buildings and other urban lowlights—mirroring […]
Kane Ikin :: Modern Pressure (Type)
Ikin harnesses various trajectories, folding early ’80s industrial and no wave into techno’s pulse, dub’s low end, and eerie Carpenter-esque menace. Drones loom and static sparks […]
Sand Circles :: Motor City / Motor City Remixes (Posh Isolation)
Overall, a midnight feast of pad wash and beat clunk indulgence with enough wow, flutter and tape hiss to make an old ’80s Dolby-hater happy. Sand […]
ASC :: The Farthest Reaches (Auxiliary)
Tracks on The Farthest Reaches register around 130 bpm, yet create a kind of illusion of movement towards a rolling half-step neo-Schaffel kinesis. A Zeitgeist-y convergence of genre […]
2view :: Robert Crouch and Luigi Turra (LINE)
Richard Chartier’s good works for experimental electronic music minorities continue unabated, curating compositional and installation work by international dealers in contemporary sound art and digital minimalism. Latest […]
3VIEW :: Tomonari Nozaki (forwind)
The whole is re-imagined into a dish fit to set before Basinski buffs and Hecker checkers. The series’ sheer sweep sees Nozaki’s sound gather in sono-dramatic force, cementing detail, […]
Emiliano Romanelli :: Tabulatura (Terziruolo)
Though little of Tabulatura may strike the outside ear as new, the inner will likely not have heard it so before—with indeterminacy’s agency laying the grain of […]
SsS… soon from SHXCXCHCXSH
Techno mischief-makers SHXCXCHCXSH return soon with a new LP on Avian. A follow-up to 2014’s Linear S Decoded, SsS… has the pron.-challenging Swedes revisit signature stop-mo percussion and hypertensile synthesis […]
Tobias Hellkvist :: Vesterhavet (self release)
Vesterhavet has been shaped and fine-tuned, the Swede’s swathes stretched and swollen over years in teeming layers of transportive tone accretion, into chronostatic sprawl. Ambient electroacoustic artist Tobias […]
2VIEW :: Parallelism / Valanx (Shimmering Moods)
The first new releases of 2016 from Shimmering Moods—by Parallelism and Valanx—continue to champion the cause of artists blurring the boundaries of ambient, drone, electro-acoustic and […]
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