Behind its usual black massive drones the music reveals very dramatic, mournful and mysterious soothing melodies (mainly obtained by guitar waves) which help to be […]
Tag: Dark Ambient
Phragments :: All Towers Must Fall (Malignant)
With its dark trumpet call and thundering bass frequencies the opening theme introduces the listener in a malevolent and adventurous sound ritualism absorbed by nightmare […]
Day Before Us :: Enlightening Secrecy (Triple Moon)
Droning and brooding textured electronic sequences are joined by melodious acoustic lines. Making its name in the understated underground music scene, Day Before Us is […]
Eraldo Bernocchi & Shinkiro :: In Praise of Shadows (SSSM)
Though subtle indeed, In Praise of Shadows summons a certain dis-ease, a sense of the shy and the paranoid, as if the listening mind were an incarnation […]
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 […]
Honzo :: Melancholia (Arboretum)
This is dark, lonely music; terrifying in one respect and cruelly honest. And within this rawness, this discord, there are wonderful moments. One of the […]
Kane Ikin :: Modern Pressure (Type)
Ikin harnesses various trajectories, folding early ’80s industrial and no wave into techno’s pulse, dub’s low end, and eerie Carpenter-esque menace. Drones loom and static sparks […]
Five questions with Keosz
From the depths of Slovakia Erik Osvald a.k.a. Keosz speaks briefly about inspiration, musical influences and of course his debut album, Be Left to Oneself—an […]
V/A :: Mid Atlantic Death (Great Circles)
A compilation of contrasts set in the rust clad cast of Great Circles. If you wanted to crack this Philadelphia label, sample its metallic taste […]
2 8 1 4 :: 新しい日の誕生 (Dream Catalogue)
新しい日の誕生 (Birth of a New Day) isn’t an album that begins, it’s one you arrive at, as if slowly waking from a fever dream in […]
Beneath the surface of Blackwater :: Interview and Mix
And what is that sound? Techno I would say. Not specific enough? Add some of the following and you’ll get a picture. Black. Psychological. Industrial. […]
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