(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, […]

(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 […]

(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 […]

(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 […]

(May 2009) Dark Ambient ™ is a perverse musical enterprise in that, like the horror film, unpalatability becomes a positive attribute, a measure of a […]

(May 2009) Mike Fazio conceived of ÆRA as a personal take on symphonic music merged with the art and the literary worlds. The art/literary element […]

(May 2009) Oakland-based sound artist Tana Sprague is Lissom. Behind the slinky pseudonym, she fashions Nest of Iterations, from a palette of sources – field-found, […]

(May 2009) Aversion Therapy is an interesting and divergent choice for Infraction’s first long player. Its creators, Draf ted by Minotaurs, are questing instrumentalists, exponents […]

 (04.11.09) Ultre is Finn McNicholas, UK experimental homespun electro-acoustic po-mo B-boy, and The Nest & The Skull is a heady sound-trip on which grainy swirls […]

(03.21.09) [Ref.: ARL 2008 Top 10] What follows is a guide for the igloo-visitor, rewind-replaying releases that struck as 2008’s best. The eye is here […]