Each track is a vigorously constructed matrix of beats, flexible but muscled and oiled up, arranged in a lattice of suggestion and ideas. [Release page] […]
Author: Stephen Fruitman
Laurel Halo :: Quarantine (Hyperdub)
Halo trowels through a soft soil of idea-rich, melodic self-accompaniment, an impressive display of compositional dexterity, complementing bass and electric piano with a hefty role […]
V/A :: Lost in the Humming Air: Music Inspired by Harold Budd (Oktaf)
Lost in the Humming Air is a credit to the lasting debt these artists are due a pioneer in their field without being beholden to […]
Andrew Weathers :: Someone Else’s Summer (Visceralmedia)
Gazing hard at it, there is no depth in which to plunge, which seems to me the essential ingredient for a successfully crafted drone. [Release […]
Burnt Friedman :: Bokoboko (Nonplace)
Bernd Freidmann reaffirms his status as one of the most interesting genres-in-himself in electronic music. [Release page] This artist has gone increasingly beat crazy as the […]
Yellow6 & Caught in the Wake Forever :: The Slow Manipulation of Dying Light (Hibernate)
The Slow Manipulation of Dying Light comes in like a lion and out like a lamb. [Release page] Jon Attwood and Fraser McGowan are Yellow6 […]
Easychord :: Not in My Family Tree (Heart and Soul)
Easychord encourages us to listen closely to the slowly swirling eddies he stirs up, to understand what we hear, our own private interpretation of the […]
Diskrepant :: Through an Odious Framework (Attenuation Circuit)
Active as Diskrepant since 1997, he uses vinyl static, analogue systems, concrete sounds and field recordings and all the gadgets with which to forge them […]
Oorutaichi :: Cosmic Coco, Singing for a Billion Imu’s Hearty Pi (Out One Disc)
Oorutaichi has created his own personal creole (named after himself) in which he sings his songs, and he has poured a can of 7-Up onto […]
RAPOON 3VIEW :: Stray, Disappeared Redux & Time-Loop Anomalies (Soleilmoon, Zoharum)
Rapoon’s uchronia is an alternate, eerie and hermetic version of our world whose time period, cults and politics are similar to but not quite our […]
















