(10.02.06) Critiquing a musician’s work is as subjective as looking at a piece of art and doing the same. Personal taste, preference, and tolerance all […]

(09.22.06) Notochord is one of the latest independent electronic labels to come from America. The label’s name, Notochord, is a term used in embryonic development; […]

(09.13.06) Wandering in a dream landscape somewhere between the ritual ambience of Coil and the electronic space drift of Tangerine Dream and Pete Namlook, Formication […]

(06.13.06) It’s no wonder Otto approached Ipecac Records, considering his ultra freaky style and his past excursions in metal. The manifesto of the entire record […]

(06.13.06) The straight four to the floor kick drum of “Wake Up Call” speaks clearly: something has changed. Drop The Lime has shifted from breakcore […]

(06.13.06) Menton J. Matthews distills the emotional weight of loss and heartbreak down to the tremor of a violin’s string and the vibration of a […]

(09.13.06) Robin Storey has a long history of combining abstract art with his ethno-ambient music and, for his first release for Essense Music, he provides […]

(09.13.06) The cover of Photophob’s latest record is a grey/sepia print of dried leaves, dead and wrinkled but nonetheless still attached to a tree limb. […]