Perälä’s work has a distinctly Millsian flavor with hints of spooked AFX melody. It’s certainly other worldly and many of these tracks could easily slot […]
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Kita Kouhei :: Akashic Records (Lantern / Nature Bliss)
Minuscule electronic portraits with intense foreign spices. Clicks and cuts, chopped piano extracts, broken melodies and digital symphonies spread across tranquil ambient streams are ever-present […]
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If only you knew…. I would paint the release as dealing with the complexities and fragilities of close inter-personal relationships, when removed from the comforts […]
L’eoscombu Couti :: Five Cambridge Utilities (Constellation Tatsu)
A fabulous set of heavy-lid hypnagogue ambient drone drift. It’s not long since Constellation Tatsu‘s Winter Batch, which included the lovely likes of Chihei Hatakeyama’s You’re Still In It and Havenaire’s […]
Jeffrey Wentworth Stevens :: The [Gold Mixtape] (Self-Released)
The [Gold Mixtape] breezes by with its punchy exp-electronic reflections and genre-crossing that somehow just works. A focused collaborative vocal effort coming from multi-talented, Denver-based Jeffrey […]
Balance / Lucianno Lamanna :: Double review (Scudiera / Subsound)
There’s a revival of techno in Italy and Lamanna, and like-minded musicians, are at the coal face. Psychological, at times bordering on serpentine, a deep […]
Red Stars Over Tokyo :: Deconstructing Happiness (Testtoon)
Contrasts melt, comparisons jar as a strange sense of composition is somehow maintained in this immensely absorbing album. Jeroen Lauwers is a staple of Testtoon […]
Endfest / Layup :: Double Review (Endless Illusion)
Looking over Endless Illusion’s back catalog it’s fair to say that the label took educated risks with its first vinyl outings. This latest pair, lesser […]
R.R. Hearse :: Call Of Oedipus (1981 – 2013) (June)
R.R. Hearse fits into no category previously explored. Grainy, it’s a record that some will find difficult to grapple with. Nevertheless it’s a bold move […]
Sturqen :: Cura (Kvitnu)
Exploring an inner violence, Sturqen have inadvertently created a fluid audio distraction of raw industrial soundscapes. As Cura (Cure in English) suggests treatment or restoration of a […]
Oráculo Records :: Synthesizer surprises from a Spanish seaside town
Synthesizer surprises from a Spanish seaside town. Spain has a surprising tradition with electronics. The 1980s, a post dictatorial age, saw a burgeoning synth wave […]
















