In 2009 a micro-independent label ‘inspired by the unpredictable, momentary and quiet solitary beauty of the Pennine Moors,’ Hibernate was born. For Jonathan Lees, who […]
Author: Alan Lockett
Autistici :: Amplified Presence (Home Normal)
Using a deceptively simple approach to craft ten music-soundscape vignettes, coaxing emergent melodies from his dual domains of sonority, some set free from particulate wrappers, […]
Experimedia & Students of Decay :: Multi-review
The last year has seen Experimedia move up into the big league, a series of compelling recordings by the likes of Lawrence English and Black […]
Maps and Diagrams :: Lights Will Call On You / The Town Beneath The Sea (Nomadic Kids Republic)
‘My personal journey through music started over 12 years ago, I have travelled a lot musically myself over that time in my own work and […]
Kabutogani :: Cymma (Electroton)
Ultimately, all five of Cymma’s exhibits can be seen as tooled with a similar glitch-driven hyper-funk sensibility, and, with varying degrees of precision, incision and/or […]
4Play :: The microsound of Line
The four latest updates come from an impressively august roster led by post-industrial pioneer, Asmus Tietchens, and Lord of lowercase, Steve Roden, with luminaries Stephan […]
ALAN LOCKETT :: Slings the Wooze Mix
20 exponents of blurred and blissed ambience, washed out synthwave and reverb-drenched electronica selected and strategically slung into a document of daze, a hymn to […]
AUN :: Phantom Ghost (Denovali)
Phantom Ghost has about it a compelling elusive quality, as if evaporating when its solidity feels graspable; it seems to float, as if levitating, just above […]
Yann Novak :: Presence (Hibernate)
Presence operates in the inbetween between unresolved and resolution, flirting with the chill charms of the unpitched then back, finding refuge in more comfily pitched […]
BROKEN20 :: 3View
These three releases (10-20’s Magnet Marsh, Isodyne’s Dreams Torn From The Sky and Nanorhythm’s Beyond the Green Wall) show Broken20’s faculties very much intact in […]
Stormloop :: Snowbound* (Glacial Movements)
There are no great shifts to the glacial isolationist ambient paradigm here, but a consummate execution of a programmatic template. A little more than this, […]
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