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 […]
Reviews
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 […]
Mr. Jones :: Sounds For The Mute (The Public Stand)
Its pounding rhythms and dark structures are well crafted and expertly composed to induce unease and dancing while create intricate soundscapes. Mr. Jones’ Sounds For […]
Girių Dvasios :: Ratu (Cold Tear/Dangus)
Girių Dvasios makes hand-tufted dub, punching strands of circular song into a canvas of very rootsy dub, with organ bubbling, guitar doodling, and flutes and melodica singing […]
The Silicon Scientist :: Outside the Night (Anna Logue)
Anna Logue released one of the year’s best synth-pop albums in 2014 with Twins Natalia’s spellbinding The Destiny Room and with the late 2015 release […]
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