Experimental Electronic Music
A definitive, full-color celebration of the elusive visionary Babs Santini—whose surreal, erotically charged collages shaped the visual world of Nurse With Wound and its avant-garde circle—The Formless Irregular spans five decades of radical image-making that transforms waste, dreams, and noise into haunting, darkly humorous art.
A very English children’s story about death: Difficult Art & Music present A.C. Fayler’s novel and an accompanying electronic OST by Near Minerals. Kickstarter campaign.
Long before digital memes defined underground culture, punk flyers—xeroxed collages slapped onto telephone poles—served as the gritty, hand-made invitations to scenes like the Jockey Club’s explosive 1980s freakshow.
Hip-hop was never my main musical obsession, but it pulsed through the background of my youth—skate sessions, cheap forties, porch-side blunts—quietly shaping the soundtrack of growing up. Ben Pedroche’s Independent as F*** a vibrant history of indie rap from 1995–2005, taps straight into that world, revealing how artists built their own freedom and infrastructure far from the grip of major labels.
By the late 1980s, Depeche Mode had found global success—but the U.S. remained elusive. Despite support from stations like WLIR and KROQ, mainstream America hadn’t caught on. That changed with 1990’s Violator. Riding the momentum of Music for the Masses and Depeche Mode 101, the band hit a creative high, delivering the album that would launch them into true worldwide fame.
Shoegaze has always been a genre shaped as much by distortion as by definition. Coined—and complicated—by the British music press, the term has been embraced, rejected, and debated by the very bands it aimed to describe. In Shoegaze, music writer Ryan Pinkard explores this hazy history with clarity and curiosity, tracing the genre’s roots through its sounds, scenes, and stories. As a longtime fan, I found his account both illuminating and rewarding—a vital look at a style often heard but rarely explained.
Faber proudly announces What Art Does: An Unfinished Theory, Brian Eno’s first new book in twenty-nine years, written in collaboration with Dutch artist and novelist Bette Adriaanse.
America’s Greatest Noise: About RRRecords, Emil Beaulieau, and the True Sound of Love by Frans Da Waard (Korm Plastics). The focus is centered on the noise scene in the United States, as might be expected for a book about America’s greatest living noise artist.
For anyone who is interested in a primer exploring the basic connections between music and math, this is a good start and overview of the topic. Written in a breezy, easy to understand style, it stretches the mind while not tying it up into too many knots.
Exploring the intersection of technology and creativity that shaped the sonic landscape of the 20th century. This fascinating story unravels the intricate threads of telecommunications, from the invention of the telephone to the advent of global communication networks.
