While Params’ sound may not be revolutionary, there is a definitive pulsing trigger, clips and tangible emotive fragments that scatter about in an absorbing digital-to-analog […]
Reviews
Wall to Wall Carpeting :: Pilliad Echons (Orila)
This is the persona of Pilliad Echons, juxtaposing the rough and the smooth in drawn-out sequences like night overlapping into day. Opening far away on […]
Sense :: The Dream (Psychonavigation)
If the central idea behind The Dream is to reflect the bizarre, the shifting tone, setting and content of the most fevered of actual dreams, […]
Mark Stewart :: Exorcism of Envy (Future Noise Music)
Dub as an attitude, its “destruction of a structure a political as well as a musical statement.” The end of the civil society averted—this time. […]
Paul Mitchell :: Dichotomy Pt.1 (Tabernacle)
Mitchell bucks the trend, concentrating on the music he wants to create without pandering to the constraints of the floor and record store shelf. Glasgow’s […]
V/A :: Oxycanta III (Ultimae)
Winter is ahead, and the twelve tracks on Oxycanta III will go well with the cold gray days. The most narrative-driven and crystallized chapter of […]
Piano Interrupted :: The Unified Field (Denovali)
There’s enough space and clarity to feel the notes, the gentle yet powerful hits on the keyboard, the groove, hues and textures of the bass, […]
Plaster :: Nemesis EP (Touchin’ Bass)
An absolute killer EP on Andrea Parker’s Touchin’ Bass label from Italian duo Gianclaudio Hashem Moniri and Giuseppe Carlini—otherwise known as Plaster. “Walking on Deodron” […]
The Exaltics :: Das Heise Experiment (Abstract Acid)
I thought that Witschakowski would walk down the dark alleys of Acid with Das Heise Experiment. True, some of the tracks have a pH below […]
Emerge :: Double review (Attenuation Circuit)
Deep, dark ambient on black. Oneirism consists of two, twelve-minute nightmares of deep, dark ambient on black, ten-inch vinyl, signed by Emerge (aka German soundscaper […]
Dr. Guilty / Paul Mitchell :: Double review (Elephant)
Both tapes explore melody extension, sometimes overly stretching it into outright repetition. Evenings are getting shorter. Jumpers are returning. The kids are back in school. […]
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