Everything that is good about electro is here. The harshness of the genre’s almost draconian parameters and how those limits can be stretched and bent […]
Tag: Abstract
Diffuse Arc :: Teoria de las Ideas EP (Caustica Waveform)
Streaked with summer sun the entire 12” has an airy and bright aspect. Electro is the predominant style, but not the moody side of the […]
V/A :: Grey City (ZCKR)
Grey City is far from ashen. Leaden clouds hang over some tracks, deluges of audio hail pummeling the unsuspecting listener. But that is just with […]
Alex Menzies :: Order & Disorder (Kathexis)
Order & Disorder brings together twenty pieces of contemporary classical music. Flickering machine sounds sit between rich and textured piano sounds. But that would be […]
214 :: North Bend (Shipwrec)
Rich, dark, bright, textured and a cracking record. In all music there are certain names that shine brighter. Some artists grab the headlines. This position […]
Concretism :: Town Planning (Self-Released)
Town Planning is neo-brutalism under a constantly anthracite sky. It is conceptual art celebrating its greyness, its standardization and the strange pull it exercises on […]
“Something wicked this way comes…” :: Occult Research
More and more labels are turning to tapes. I remember my initial reaction: “Why?” Price being the obvious reason. But, the return to cassettes has […]
Fis :: The Blue Quicksand Is Going Now (Loopy)
A veneer of unkempt noise and disorder is attended by intimations of hyper-timbral detail and hermetic design. There’s definitely something in the water in Wellington […]
Heidi Lord :: English Electric (Weme)
Each piece is self-contained perpetual motion. Sourcing MRI equipment, modular synthesizers, gongs and guitars, sampled conversation from the grocery store and her own voice, she waxes […]
WC00160 & Abono :: Untitled EP (ALLISANDNOT)
Deep machine music with just the right balance of bite and bloom. Styles coming together, forming, shaping and gelling into a wonderfully familiar difference. A […]
















