DECIBEL FESTIVAL, now in its 9th year, has become America’s premiere festival of electronic music. This year’s festival is five days long (September 26th—30th, 2012), […]
Tag: Dub
V/A :: Lost in the Humming Air: Music Inspired by Harold Budd (Oktaf)
Lost in the Humming Air is a credit to the lasting debt these artists are due a pioneer in their field without being beholden to […]
Herzel & Genoveva / Metropolis :: Double review (Other Heights)
With shelves in record stores ever shrinking, and many online shops promoting their own distribution, it can be hard for smaller labels. Nevertheless, I saw […]
Roel Funcken :: Mercury Retrograde (Schematic Music Company)
As the experimental envelop is torn to shreds, Roel Funken offers the Schematic team a futuristic balance of primed electronics tied to leftfield dub extracts […]
Sun Araw & M. Geddes Gengras meet The Congos :: Icon Give Thank & Icon Eye (Rvng Intl)
Icon Give Thank is hands down the most important collaboration of the year. The document of a unique, self-sustaining social and musical biotope, an acknowledgement […]
Soulacybin :: Learning Through Dreams EP (Herb)
As dub, reggae and a plume of smoke fades into and out of site, these pieces of glitched-out manipulations offer more in terms of tranquilized phases of light, pulses of sound and pictures of the now.
Eomac :: Eomac EP (Acroplane)
Taking sound design to another level, melodies are buried underneath a plethora of low-end bass emissions. Twisting itself around dub, breaks, electro, hip-hop and minute […]
Monolog :: Live Cuts EP (Acre)
The raw experiments—while seemingly delivered as improvised sessions—have Monolog (aka Mads Lindgren) transmitting tangled rhythm-bursts at every turn. As the title suggests, Live Cuts is […]
E_LPHABET :: Middle Line (33)
As the entire package transmits a double-aura in terms of style, the midnight sky is lit with E_LPHABET’s brooding—if not moody—spatial frequency interruptions which are […]