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 […]
Author: Alan Lockett
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 […]
Maps and Diagrams :: Multi-rear-view
Tim Martin had reached new heights of hyperactivity at our last igloo-view of Maps and Diagrams; there we found him ‘between mood paradigms of light […]
Cernlab :: Atomherz (Electroton)
Cernlab returns with a shuffle of tinnitus and crepitus, sawtooth kinesis and electrical grounding tones on a quest for accidental form and errorist structure. Electroton […]
Secret Pyramid & John Davis :: Double review (Students of Decay)
A major vector in the trajectory of West Coast US ambient/drone for nearly a decade, Students of Decay quietly brought up a century of releases […]