Pausal’s patented minimalist neo-romanticism offsets harmonic comfort zone with subtle experimental edge, finding a fine balance between long-form drones and hushed acoustic twinkles—of the nature […]
Author: Alan Lockett
Techno’s Outer Limits :: August 2014
Latest in a series of snapshots from Techno’s twilight zone of EPs/12″s and LPs, with notes in the margin. First up, German newbies, Natch, tell us Audiolouis & […]
ALAN LOCKETT :: Dalliance #8 mix
Dalliance #8 is the latest Ambient Dub Techno mix from igloomag Contributing Editor Alan Lockett in his MistMaxer albient guise—part of a continuing series of snapshots from Techno’s twilight zone. Including: […]
Richard Chartier :: Subsequent Materials (2006-2012) (Line)
‘I was always interested in sound(s), even as a child. I loved the sound of refrigerators, air conditioners. I could often be found listening to […]
Abdulla Rashim :: Unanimity (Northern Electronics)
More interested in ambience, texture and analog synthetic techniques than in creating DJ fodder, Rashim eschews the dancefloor imperative and its associated DJ-appeasing 12″ fetishism, […]
Federico Durand & Melodía :: Double review (Spekk/Kaico)
The theme of ‘blurry childhood memories’ is something of a go-to emotion pool for a current breed of ambient and electro-acoustic musicians. It’s one Federico Durand has drawn from over […]
Maxwell August Croy & Sean McCann :: I (Students of Decay)
A production at once maximalist and minimalist endows it with an architecture wherein each musical gesture peals to reveal—a spatiality with every emplacement lent heightened presence. […]
Pleq + Philippe Lamy :: Sans Titre (Pocket Fields)
Choreographing ambient, noise and modern classical minimalism with a sense of tension being denied resolution, finding unwonted turns along the way. Since 2008 Bartosz Dziadosz […]