Neo-experimental giants engage in post-digital East-West soundclash summit. Post-synthetic encounters post-digital generation. Big in Japan, Vast in Vienna. Ryuichi Sakamoto, reputation (post-YMO) forged in questing […]
Author: Alan Lockett
Thomas Fehlmann :: Honigpumpe (Kompakt, CD)
(07.17.07) In 1977 performance artist Joseph Beuys pumped honey through a museum in his installation piece, Honigpumpe Am Arbeitsplatz. Thirty years on, performance musician Thomas […]
Damiak :: Micalavera (n5MD, CD)
(07.15.07) Erstwhile breeding ground for the next generation of the old IDM vanguard — of the Proems and the Quenches, the Sparks and the Vesnas […]
Cyrus (Random Trio) :: From the Shadows (Tectonic, CD)
(07.04.07) In Cyrus Bristol dubstep maven Pinch has made an interesting choice to deliver the first single-artist full-length for his Tectonic imprint. It represents something […]
Keene :: The River and the Fence (Poeta Negra, CD)
(06.30.07) William Boyd coined the term “zemblanity” for “The opposite of serendipity, the faculty of making unhappy, unlucky and expected discoveries by design.” So when […]
Yard :: Deciduous Flood Plains (Concrete Plastic, CD)
(06.17.07) Seattle-ite Chris Jones’s debut Yard full-length is a solid collection of leftfield minimal techno with electro and ambient trimmings. It follows on an earlier […]
Efdemin :: Efdemin (Dial, CD)
(06.03.07) Dial have really got it going on at the art-house-techno studio-floor intersection. Over the last five years the Hamburg-based imprint have covered minimal techno […]
Teleseen :: War (Percepts, CD)
(06.03.07) Though dub is the ostensible word, it turns out that the content of War is driven as much by Deleuze and Guattari as Tubby […]
oto :: Time Capsule Sunday (Otokikiyama, CD)
(05.20.07) Kiku Hibino has been releasing albums as oto, meaning “sound”, since 2002. He’s a Media Art and Technology graduate, so he’s no slouch at […]
Nunc Stans :: Night Vision (DataObscura, CDr)
(05.20.07) The shadowy Nunc Stans originates from northern Canada, a place where nights are invariably long and associated visions therefore more potentiated for contemplation. And […]
The Buoys :: Grillo Parlante (Bathysphere, CD)
(05.20.07) The relationship between Ambient and Film music is pretty well established, informally, going back to more obvious specimens like Eno’s Music for Films, but […]

















