Boards of Canada’s Music Has the Right to Children stands as a quintessential cornerstone of downtempo electronic music—a seminal release that propelled the enigmatic duo of Mike Sandison and Marcus Eoin into a boundless realm of nostalgic reverie. In this edition of our “Flashback” column, Anne Jackson revisits the album’s haunting landscapes, with particular focus on “Telephasic Workshop,” a track that encapsulates a paradoxical beauty: at once claustrophobic and transcendent in its sonic intricacy.
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Juan Atkins, Derrick May, Kevin Saunderson :: Detroit Techno — [flashback]
In this [Flashback] column, Anne Jackson explores the origins of Detroit Techno, a genre born in the early 1980s from the city’s underground dance scene. Pioneered by African-American artists Juan Atkins, Derrick May, and Kevin Saunderson—collectively known as the Belleville Three—techno fused elements of funk, electro, and early electronic music. Shaped by Detroit’s industrial backdrop and the socio-economic challenges facing its residents, the genre became both a form of artistic innovation and a powerful outlet for expression within the African-American community.
WE FORFEIT :: Radio Relativa #49 (Mora, Live from RR HQ)
This clammy one is packed full of styles, acid, electro, italo, house, new beat and techno, a b2b of two hours recorded live from the new studio of Radio Relativa. Tracks from 22 Recordings, Ace Vision, DJ Overdose, Neud Photo, and loads more.
V/A :: Cottage Industries 13: The Third Column (Neo Ouija)
In a musical climate often fleeting, Cottage Industries remains a sanctuary for those who value intricate sonic storytelling. Neo Ouija, now 25 years in, shows no signs of slowing—only deepening its commitment to the craft, its artists, and its audience.
High, Holy Places and the Spaces In Between :: Ambient Girl Tour Road Diary
“We really wanted to try something very different,” Harper said. “Something that respects the sanctity of these holy places, while allowing them to be filled with new sounds—sometimes in opposition to the words and songs once rendered there, but still meaningful.”
The final lines of sewer sender
sewer sender continues, despite its end, to be an expression; an expression of friendship, of emotion and of music. The final chapter of this “novella” may have come to a close, but the sounds that were crafted by the contributors will continue into the infinite.
Edmondo Riccardo Annoni :: La grotta è aperta (ROHS!)
An album conceived as if it were played by a bodiless orchestra, where resonances, feedback, Tibetan bells, synths, and trumpet come together in an electro-acoustic tone guided only by the intent with which it was created.
Alessandro Barbanera :: In Darkness Let Me Dwell (Owl Totem)
An epic imaginary soundtrack for a fanciful film noir. In a dreamlike and nocturnal atmosphere, filled with rain and decaying sounds, In Darkness Let Me Dwell—available on Owl Totem, a “dark vibes” division of Dronarivm Records—deconstructs, reworks and wants to pay homage to the imagery and clichés of cinema noir.
Anna Homler :: Reverie (Right Brain)
Reverie is a tour of unadorned castles in the air, playful and strange vocals, music inspiring pleasant dream-like thoughts, expressed with wordless musical vocalisms, fluid speech-like syllables that might lack any readily comprehensible meaning, an extravagant conceit of the imagination, a lost sense of dreaming while awake. There is an extraordinary array of great talent here.
Scanner & Nurse With Wound :: Contrary Motion (Alltagsmusik / United Dairies)
Contrary Motion is an album for those who wish to embark on a journey of neurodivergence from the realm of traditional thought and soundwaves so as to access the remedies that will give them relief from the complexity of modern life. This is live audio that has been refracted through the studio by means of frequency hopping between Australia, Ireland and England.
















