When label curator Ian Hawgood was sounded out by electroacoustic nomad Wren a couple of years ago about releasing his latest opus, it meant fulfillment […]
Author: Alan Lockett
DJ FOOD :: O is for Orange
DJ Food, the funky Flexistentialist known to his mates as Kev (Strictly), has just dropped O is for Orange, an engaging AV mix of the […]
Moss Garden :: Understanding Holy Ghosts (Kaico)
The tenor of Understanding Holy Ghosts is warm, pacific, contemplative at first blush, but as it goes on, surfaces prove deceptive. More ghostly than holy elements […]
Boards Of Canada :: Tomorrow’s Harvest (Warp)
Tomorrow’s Harvest achieves a kind of re-route, as if seeking to achieve triptych, somewhere sequential with the psycho-ambient-chill of MHTRTC and the ambivalent wooze-out of […]
Martin Schulte :: Slow Beauty (Lantern)
A closing serving suggestion might be that Slow Beauty is best consumed less in full-on focused home listening mode than in expansive semi-distracted mix dosage. Dub Techno. […]
ANODIZE :: Tactile Visual Audio
Anodize prides itself on the artistic value inherent in the physical object, what it represents historically and literally to the aural and visual mediums simultaneously vanishing […]
Ben Fleury-Steiner :: Clearings (Rural Colours)
Clearings seems to describe a trajectory in its passage from organic to more ethereal sounds; a dynamic of slow aperture, a catharsis involving nature’s mediation—these […]
BOARDS OF CANADA :: “Reach for the Dead”
With word lately heard that a new full-length would be coming in June, and their promo campaign people playing out a slow tease that’s not […]