(February 2010) The sound of piano, both pure and processed, has become almost a sub-genre of its own within ambient electronica. There’s a Satie-authored lineage […]
Author: Alan Lockett
Alan Lockett :: Top lists for 2009
(January 2010) This is a rough guide for the Igloo-peruser who may be passing by, grazing, looking for some tasty electronic shoots from 2009’s crop. […]
Deru :: Say Goodbye to Useless (Mush)
(December 2009) After a hiatus in a sequence going back to 2003 on Neo Ouija (Pushing Air), Merck (Trying To Remember), and more recent Ghostly […]
Brock Van Wey and Quantec :: double review (echospace [detroit], Echocord)
(November 2009) By now SF mood-man Brock Van Wey will be familiar to many for his prodigious output as bvdub. At the deeper end of […]
Aquadorsa :: Cloudlands (Glacial Movements)
(November 2009) Italy’s Glacial Movements label may be a relative newcomer to the ambient netherworld, but a slow but steady infusion of releases from the […]
Rim and Pausal :: double review (U-Cover CD-R, Highpoint Lowlife)
(November 2009) U-Cover’s limited CDr series has yielded a number of unsung gems in a stream of sometimes patchy sometime ho-hum output from deep in […]
Pendle Coven :: Self Assessment (Modern Love)
(October 2009) With a slew of solid 12″s built up over their half-decade plus of operation, it’s surprising to find Pendle Coven the late-delivery boys […]
Hecq :: Steeltongued (Hymen)
(October 2009) That Benny Boysen is a sound designer of distinction is evident from his CV, evidencing work for Big Boys like Toyota, Nike and […]
SND and Pixel reviews for Raster-Noton
(October 2009) Atavism, SND’s fourth album since their 1998 inception, is, surprisingly, their first for Raster-Noton. But in a sense the duo were already a […]
Somfay :: A Catch in the Voice (Archipel)
(October 2009) Jesse Somfay might be Canada’s primary ambient-shoegaze-techno fusioneer, but the entry to the arena of his second full-length is hobbled by a redundant […]
Loess and Proem reviews (Nonresponse)
Loess :: Burrows (Listen & Purchase) The arrival of Burrows, an archaeology of Loess spanning 2000-2008, is salutary. It’s not just that Clay Emerson and […]
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