Reviews

Experimedia & Students of Decay :: Multi-review

Reviews 06/17/2012 by Alan Lockett

The last year has seen Experimedia move up into the big league, a series of compelling recordings by the likes of Lawrence English and Black […]

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Matteo Uggeri, Luca Mauri, Francesco Giannico :: Pagetos (Boring Machines)

Reviews 06/17/2012 by Philippe Blache

An intense-ecological sounding ambient release, amazingly covered by melodious post-structural dreamtime sequences. Pagetos is the fourth and final chapter of the Between the elements quadrilogy. This project […]

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Olan Mill :: Paths (Facture)

Reviews 06/12/2012 by James Knapman

Olan Mill have retained their uncanny ability to stretch time without ever laboring a theme or over-extending their work, that same step printed, slow motion […]

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VILLan X / dcantu :: Disparate Implementations (Sequencias)

Reviews 06/12/2012 by Robbie Geoghegan

The House train rolls on. Studded lines bisect the US, dissect the UK and intersect the states of Europe. But it is from its homeland […]

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Disappearer :: Now You See Me (Universal Rejection)

Reviews 06/12/2012 by Robbie Geoghegan

Universal Rejection is a new label hailing from Sweden. The label is one record down, with Arab League offering a clambering piece of acidic Techno […]

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Jule Grasz :: Earth Feelings (Beats & Pieces)

Reviews 06/10/2012 by igloomag

At times landing upon drone-escapes, percussive taps slowly churn alongside tribal spheres as each piece—all over the 10-minute mark—transmit radiant swells of fuzzy beatwork, rolling […]

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Pinkcourtesyphone :: Foley Folly Folio (Line Segments)

Reviews 06/10/2012 by Stephen Fruitman

This is a plush, original ambient album. Richard Chartier develops his themes luxuriously and unsettlingly. A Barbie doll whose eyes follow you around the room […]

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Hervé Moire :: Mirage de Loire (Aposiopèse)

Reviews 06/07/2012 by Stephen Fruitman

Hervé Moire recorded a pastoral stretch of the longest river in France and fed it into his computer, the digital equivalent of a hydroelectric dam, […]

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DeWalta :: Wander (Haunt Music)

Reviews 06/05/2012 by Stephen Fruitman

Catchy, accessible yet with a tartness to tantalize the most sophisticated palate, Wander pays out escalating returns with each new listen. [Release page] This masterful debut long-player […]

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Illl vs. Irma :: 10-15 mA (Soun)

Reviews 06/05/2012 by Stephen Fruitman

Dream pop and nightmare scenarios seep into each other to their mutual benefit resulting in an hour-long tone poem in a hundred monochrome shades. The […]

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