This collaboration between Portugal’s Beautiful Schizophrenic, aka Jorge Mantas, and Japan’s Yui Onodera, who previously made beautiful music with Celer, opens with unobtrusive ambient grace. […]
Reviews
Variant :: Falling Stars (echospace [detroit])
Twenty-five minutes in and the feedback blossom and blooming strings dissipate, leaving the calmer swell of the delicate pads and sea-salt spray, but very soon […]
Publicist / Tussle :: Split Infinitive (Voltaire)
With electro disco having dried up over the last few years, Voltaire are, in a way, breaking with the norm. For those looking for an […]
Lyr :: Lyr (From A Tree)
Static noise is interwoven through clicks’n cuts, manipulated guitars, tribal tentacles, crumbling techno, post-industrial washes and an extreme focus on the obscure craft of darkened […]
The Exaltics / Gosub :: The Exaltics Meets Gosub (Solar One Music)
The Exaltics serve up two warming Electro tracks, toeing the line between detached and inviting. Gosub tears down any welcoming aspects, instead establishing an uneasy twosome of […]
Artifact :: Archaic Line (Deadplate)
More good—forward looking bass heavy music from Bristol and London, a collaboration which seems to be all the rage at the moment. Artifact delivers this mutant […]
Tape :: Revelationes (Hapna)
With less corner-cutting ruthlessness, Revelationes is low-key instrumental jazz flecked with pop that is both breezy and broody. Tape is a trio that came out […]
Sense :: AXxil of Macial EP (Detroit Underground / Psychonavigation)
Without falling from the edges of slippery ice sheets, each percussive puncture is evenly paced amongst a myriad of leavened ambience gluing these sonic pictures […]
Pascal Savy :: Fragments (Hibernate)
The air crackles and as the end approaches, so do footsteps, crunching the surface of the snow—another ruddy-cheeked traveler coming to warm himself inside. Pascal […]
Kowton vs Dusk :: Kowton v Dusk EP (Keysound)
A great release from Keysound, pretty much right on the pulse of the bass crossover scene. London and Bristol unite (again) with this deep offering […]
Bedawang :: Skin = Deception (Must Die)
Skin = Deception is distinct from the music he has released online—minimal with maximum impact, insidious and scary. [Release page] Must Die Records is a one-year-old […]

















