Xela, aka 23 year-old John Twells (and Type label co-owner), returns with the sophomore album Tangled Wool on Germany’s City Centre Offices label. Where Xela’s […]

This compilation comes from a label known for putting out great IDM of all types. Jvox was one of the first bedroom artists I found […]

The set is launched with a scrawling old banjo in heat provided by Birchville Cat Motel on “Endless Cassette” which triumphantly flows freely into “3:45” […]

The story is (as noted on City Centre’s website) that Uwe Zahn, the man behind Arovane, returned from a trip to Japan, recorded Lilies, and […]

::..:::…..:..::….:::::..:::..:::::::……:::…::.:::….::::..:..:::…::…….:::: THUMBTACK SMOOTHIE :: Homestyle (CD) Something ruptured, something crude. San Francisco is imploding with a whole new sound. On his third full-length Thumbtack Smoothie’s […]

Shazbut!, Tekniq’s new record for Hive Records, is a disc of summer melancholia, an idyllic snapshot of a lazy afternoon just prior to the advent […]

Nothing polarized fans more these last few years than The Future Sound of London’s Isness. The division started with how this record was released: was […]

In what was actually performed live as part of the Ideal Festival in France, Jack Dangers (aka Meat Beat Manifesto) played live during a screening […]