(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 […]
Author: Alan Lockett
REWOUND :: Volume 12 (Alan Lockett’s 2008 Top Ten)
(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 […]
V/A :: Sounds of Slow Flow Vol. 1 (Slow Flow)
(03.14.09) The Slow Flow label was launched just last year by Sapporo artist Ryo Nakata, aka Ryonkt. On this keynote first release he gathers like-minds […]
Nunbient :: One | Just Another Dark Age (Burning Shed)
(03.07.09) Nunbient is the genre-cidal project of Joff Winks and Matt Baber – their curious moniker an amalgam of their band project, Nuns, elided with […]
Sten :: The Essence (Dial)
(03.07.09) Peter M. Kersten launched the Dial label in 1999 with Carsten Jost, and over the last ten years these Kompakt-assisted Hamburg-ers have covered minimal […]
Alio Die & Aglaia :: Private History of the Clouds (Infraction)
(03.01.09) Infraction Records curates this new entry to the already considerable body of collaborations involving Alio Die. There have already been communings with the likes […]
Dragondrop EP and DFPRMX (Concrete Plastic)
(03.01.09) Concrete Plastic is a small Brighton-based label set up by one of the founders of Ai Records. It covers a similar ambit of electro, […]
Alva Noto and Byetone double-review (Raster-Noton)
(02.08.09) Carsten Nicolai has made a virtue out of scavenging around the least musically promising audio areas, his engineering prowess deployed to making random clatter […]
Alan Lockett :: Top lists for 2008
::..:::…..:..::….:::::..:::..:::::::……:::…::.:::….::::..:..:::…::…….::::: 10 Beatless :: Fennesz :: Black Sea (Touch) Eluder :: The Most Beautiful Blue (Infraction) Stephan Mathieu :: Radioland (Die Schachtel) Christopher Bissonnette :: […]
Gas :: Nah und Fern (Kompakt, 4-CD box set)
(12.20.08) In the 1980s, a young Wolfgang Voigt indulged in a lab project he named ‘Blei’ (= ‘lead’), drawing on elements of genres from German […]
Wyndel Hunt / Thom Heileson + Kamran Sadeghi (Dragon’s Eye)
Wyndel Hunt / Thom Heileson :: Unit of Selection (CD-R + DVD-R) Kamran Sadeghi :: Through Thickness (CD-R) (12.20.08) Dragon’s Eye has grown up fast […]
















