(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 […]
Author: Alan Lockett
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 […]
Patscan & Yard :: EP reviews (Concrete Plastic, MP3)
(05.14.07) Patscan is Pat Hime, a South East Londoner now resident in Brighton, where fledgeling label Concrete Plastic is based, and Muddled Up is a […]
Parallel Worlds :: Obsessive Surrealism (DiN, CD)
(04.25.07) Surrealism has been devalued in recent years. The concept still holds its valency, but its abuse as an everyday expression of dazed reaction (“yeah, it was […]
SUBTRACTIVELAD :: An emotional place
(02.17.07) ONE of n5MD‘s favourite sons, SubtractiveLAD (Stephen Hummel), squeezed in a Q&A with Igloo in between releasing his latest album No Man’s Land and […]

















