The 12” illustrates an ability to draw the listener in. Layers are built with wonderful subtlety, different elements slowly brought together before bombs of beat […]
Reviews
Hardfloor & Acid Hausmeister :: Double Review (ProForm Series)
Now we all know there are lots of 303 tinged records out there, and there will undoubtedly be more to come. But ProForm are old […]
Chris Moss Acid :: Righteous Acid Beats EP (Computer Controlled)
Righteous Acid Beats is a continuation of the ideas that were laid out in Phantasy. Heavy throbbing patterns further vulcanised by a dip into Roland […]
Jaki Liebezeit & Holger Mertin :: Akşak (Staubgold)
Akşak is a drummers’ album for people who don’t like drummers’ albums. Many tracks are “just” percussion, but uncannily melodic—some angular, others flow like the river […]
Vitaly Maklakov & Freiband :: Zondag (Ostroga)
Slowly, Zondag grows almost silent, no more than an evening breeze stroking the beard of a lone stalk of wheat. The aerosol hiss returns at the hour mark, like […]
Kammarheit :: The Nest (Cyclic Law)
The Nest doesn’t give of itself lightly, requiring deep diving, depths-sounding—of cavernous resonance, of bleakness and sustenance—to retrieve ungenerous pearls. Dark Ambient. Sometimes a great […]
V/A :: Circuit Intégré Volume 1 – A Compilation of Contemporary Electronica (Zoharum)
An auspicious beginning to a series with significant inertial force. In the interest of cosmic (kosmische?) balance, Zoharum, the label known among other things for […]
John Lemke :: Nomad Frequencies (Denovali)
Once again, with his distinctive combination of adventurous ways of playing instruments, unconventional methods of sound design, boldness and honesty, Lemke has created a truly […]
Cardopusher :: Manipulator (Boysnoize Records)
Barcelona-based Cardopusher has made a slick, acid-inspired techno album for the heads that have been following him ever since he burst into the scene in […]
Phil Tomsett :: Broken Memory Machine (Fluid Audio)
All in all, the travel and topography template audio-visually mediated across its catalog by Fluid Audio curator, Dan Crossley, gets an interesting refresh, as Broken Memory Machine presses ambient […]
Xu(e) :: Brown Jenkin EP (Thirsty Leaves)
Beautifully strange and continuously intricate experimental acid-jazzy electronic paintings. Thirsty Leaves Music is a newly launched net label based in Thessaloniki devoted to avant-garde electronic/sound […]

















