Dalliance #7 is the latest Ambient Techno mix from igloomag Contributing Editor Alan Lockett under his mix-Meister albient alias—part of a continuing series of audio […]
Author: Alan Lockett
Autistici :: Attaching Softness (Audiobulb)
‘When musicians play music, they play with sound. Play is the key activity. Like a child with paint or clay—you start with nothing and you […]
Nicholas Szczepanik :: Not Knowing (Desire Path)
‘The dirt stuck in the crack that runs along the splintered baseboard in the closed-off half of the attic that no one ever enters.’ (Nicholas […]
Tlön :: Truth In The 13th (Birkhouse)
A whirred world of kinetic scree slopes with synthetic colourings. ‘Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius’ (1962) is a Jorge Luis Borges parable, in which an article about […]
Yann Novak & Pinkcourtesyphone :: Double review (Dragon’s Eye)
Not long back we trailed the return, after a self-imposed hiatus, of Dragon’s Eye, an imprint very much in the catchment area of this organ’s more […]
Rainer Veil :: New Brutalism (Modern Love)
A brooding bricolage of jungle and rave dérive pressed into a prickly post-paradigm. Industrial plumes continue to cloud current techno and related—labels like Blackest Ever […]
E S T A R A is Born :: Teebs
News of a new album from tone-painting beat-poet, Teebs, due soon on Flying Lotus’s Brainfeeder. It was back in the mists of 2010 that LA-based […]
Conforce :: Kinetic Image (Delsin)
Between conceptual techno and pared-back hypgnosis, this year’s model is more nuanced, with less of the warm velvety and more of the cold clinical In […]
Damian Valles :: Exposure (VoxxoV)
Matter is shaped into dense oppressive drone-slabs of staticky churn; ghosts of settlers skulk in the shadows of its inky contours. Canadian wild frontiersman Damian […]
Donato Dozzy & Nuel :: The Aquaplano Sessions (Spectrum Spools)
Over the course of its eight Aqua-referencing tracks, Dozzy and Nuel resuscitate the spirits of Ambient Techno with a craft rarely seen in an age […]
Keith Berry :: Towards the Blue Peninsula (Infraction)
Towards the Blue Peninsula is possessed of a grandeur that belies the lowercase subtlety of the compositions, bearing a freight of ineffability, the key the […]
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