Insistent and incessant loops built from clustered assemblages of staccato chunks of sound achieve a kind of weightless velocity, churning heat out from the furious […]
Reviews
Sound Awakener & Linear Bells :: Belonging to the Infinity (Soft)
Motionless as the dead, writhing with memory. Nguyễn Hồng Nhung forces me to pay close attention to her career as it unfolds—each new thing she does as […]
LA Synthesis :: Agraphobia Relapse (De:Tuned)
There was a remix 12” released in ’95 but the De:Tuned gang have decided to go one better. Agraphobia Relapse collects a spread of artists […]
Sons of Melancholia :: Silencer (diametric.)
With plangent pads and heart-tug strings folded into deep bass pulses and off-kilter rhythms roamed through by a refined melodic sensibility, Silencer offers a view from and into […]
Dream Weapons :: Reach Dystopia (MRT)
Strong and strident beat patterns with subtle key changes and bold 303 strokes. Unsurprising, Lux Rec’s sub label set the bar pretty high with its […]
CCO :: Space Race (Endless Illusion)
Space Race adopts its retro-futuristic namesake. From the outset the heavens are the inspiration. Florin Buchel has been quiet of late. After his excellent ad-hoc […]
Stefan Christoff & Post Mortem :: Tape Crash #12 (Old Bicycle)
An organic, poetically bucolic and hazy modern ambient release. I firstly discovered this relatively young Italian label a couple of years ago with releases from […]
Chihei Hatakeyama & Federico Durand :: Magical Imaginary Child (White Paddy Mountain)
Equipped with only cassette player and guitar, respectively, the duo first lay low, moving unmarked through a sunken lane in the landscape, shoulder-high, green embankments veined with […]
Pleq & Giulio Aldinucci :: The Prelude To (The Long Story Recording Company)
The setting sun backlights two figures paddling gently beneath low-hanging boughs shot through with shafts of perfectly apt, melodramatic strings (played by violinist Tomasz Mreńca), as coureurs […]
Markus Mehr :: In The Palm of Your Hand (The Remix EP) (Hidden Shoal)
The listener is immersed in a dense, tense, refined and exceptionally moving semi jazzy inflected minimal electronic experience. Bavarian based sound designer and electronic artist […]
Thirteen, unlucky for some; not for Kernkrach.
I find it hard to come at Kernkrach from a critical angle. For thirteen years they have been pioneering synthesizer music. The German label has […]
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