(04.01.07) Stefan Betke’s music has always had a bit of a doleful unromantic disposition about it. Which makes the striking picture postcard cover of Steingarten […]
Reviews
Caural :: Mirrors For Eyes (Mush, CD)
(03.23.07) Zachary Mastoon’s myspace page for Caural self-stylizes his work as “Experimental / Shoegazer / Hip-Hop,” safely tapping three genre classifictions that, in isolation, can […]
Hecker :: Recordings For Rephlex (Rephlex, CD)
(03.23.07) Recordings For Rephlex will probably unsettle the more hardcore Rephlex followers, because it’s really beyond any boundary this label had reached during its wide […]
Samarah :: Robots Smile Too EP (Belladonna, MP3)
(03.23.07) Soon after the release of this EP, Belladonna announced that it was going into hiatus. Perhaps this record is reflective of the way the label […]
Bassnectar :: Underground Communication (Om, CD)
(03.18.07) Oddly enough, Bassnectar’s Wikipedia entry has been mysteriously deleted “and protected to prevent recreation.” Well, I never. I learned from an electronic musician that […]
Igor Krutogolov :: White (Auris Media, CD)
(03.18.07) Here’s an album that doesn’t give you much to go on. No track titles, a booklet of blank white pages, and little else. It […]
Monoceros :: Tales For Silent Nights (Fueradeserie!/Imaginary NonexistentRecords, CD)
(03.18.07) The great democratization project that’s come with ever-widening computer-mediation has not been an unalloyed blessing. Now that anyone with a computer and some software […]
Tetsu Inoue :: World Receiver (Infraction, CD)
(03.18.07) This is such a classic that to review it now, 11 years on, seems completely unnecessary. Not widely acclaimed on its initial release in […]