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Quarantine Q’s :: Deadbeat
Scott Monteith aka Deadbeat, is a Canadian transplanted to Berlin (as a musical technology educator) via the US techno scene. A veteran of the North […]
Soul Flask :: The Cassandra Complex (Mahorka) — “A Smear Through The Shale” video premiere
April 22, 2020—Earth Day is the day on which the Soul Flask album The Cassandra Complex is released on Mahorka. “Most tracks have a direct […]
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith :: The Mosaic of Transformation (Ghostly International)
The album is sonically gorgeous, but also very coherent and tight—clocking at under forty minutes with never a moment spent in self-indulgence. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith […]
WE FORFEIT (Mix 21) :: 20 Y(Ae)rs of Electronica 1996-2016
There is a hope that such a mix will introduce and reintroduce people to some of these past treasures of electronica (in Robbie’s book this […]
Eli Neuman-Hammond :: New Songs (Self Released)
New Songs avoids a simple, pandering “deconstructed club” characterization—which is part of what makes it so enjoyable. Instead, it champions a deceptive repetition-as-change monotony. Apparently […]
V/A :: Carebots (Bass Agenda) — charity compilation
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V/A :: Mobile Strategies: Battery-Powered Sonics (Clan Analogue)
Clan Analogue’s new compilation album Mobile Strategies: Battery-Powered Sonics is a survey of international mobile music making. Whether using cheap portable synths, boutique miniature noise-making […]
Single Cell Orchestra :: Remember The Future (Celldom)
The exhortation in the album’s name—Remember the Future—helps me keep in mind the unbounded forward-facing optimism we felt in the warehouse raves in late-90s Oakland […]
In Rotation :: April 2020
In rotation for the past several days/weeks/months, this multi-view column reveals the latest sonic landscape from several talented musicians. Plenty of brittle, glitch, abstract, noisy, […]
Rafael Anton Irisarri :: Peripeteia (Dais) — “Refuge/Refuse” video premiere
Peripeteia (a sudden reversal of change in circumstances) embraces the far banks of dark ambient terrain—culling fragments made from dust, debris, field recordings, and stretched […]

















