(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 […]

(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 […]

(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 […]

(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 […]

(August 2009) In the late 60s a group of artists moved to expunge the figurative image from their art. Hung up on chromatic abstraction – […]

(July 2009) Roland Barthes called it ‘the grain of the voice,’ in writing of how a singer’s vocal contours may tap into ineffable meanings above […]

(July 2009) It seems like only yesterday that NY-based Iranian-born Kamran Sadeghi’s 2007 Dragon’s Eye debut as Son of Rose was sat on the review […]

(July 2009) Skare is the communion between Fredrik Olofsson, Mathias Josefson (aka Moljebka Pvlse), and Per Åhlund (aka Diskrepant), who wield field recordings, found sounds, […]

(June 2009) You can add the name Martin Schulte to a huge and ever-growing pulsating band of ambient-dub-techno exponents – one that may or may […]

(June 2009) If Kompakt’s annual new-year gift, the Pop Ambient compilation, is intended to act as a State-of-the-Art of Ambient review, then 2009’s installment signals […]