(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 […]

(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 […]

(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 […]