Drowned Records has some similar characteristics to ZCKR. Both labels have released music from Qnete, a homegrown talent with a penchant for raw and thumping […]
Tag: Electro
MMT-8 :: Sequencer EP (Cultivated Electronics)
Sequencer shows the sharper side of Cultivated Electronics. Clinical rhythms, driving bass lines and just a touch of warbling funk when needed. A solid expression […]
Kraftjerkz :: Kid Ginseng, Lexander James, Newmonics
Styles are mixed and matched. New with old. Classic with experimental. There’s a touch of vintage shop chic to the whole endeavor. Kraftjerkz isn’t a […]
Heinrich Dressel :: Lurking Underwater (Barba)
Airier moments have been given substance without becoming bogged down, beats have been bolstered but not left leaden whilst melodies are still full of imagination […]
V/A :: The Underground Wave 7″s (Walhalla)
A varied beast. Tracks slide from style to style with little fixity of genre, but that’s what those early innovators were all about. There was […]
CCO :: Space Race (Endless Illusion)
Space Race adopts its retro-futuristic namesake. From the outset the heavens are the inspiration. Florin Buchel has been quiet of late. After his excellent ad-hoc […]
Thirteen, unlucky for some; not for Kernkrach.
I find it hard to come at Kernkrach from a critical angle. For thirteen years they have been pioneering synthesizer music. The German label has […]
Ekman & Dez Williams :: Double review (Shipwrec)
A testament to the search for innovation and experimentation. Shipwrec’s musical compass points in no one direction. Electronica. Acid. Techno. Electro. A sea of genres, […]
Cygnus :: Radical User Interfaces EP (Central Processing Unit)
Cygnus explores the tropes and memes of early techno and electro: snappy snares, pulsing, wobbling bass and shimmering arpeggios weaved around a futuristic sound and […]
Nonima & Stormfield :: Stratosphere EP (Combat)
A chaotic storm bringing disarray, noise and confusion and leaving more of the same in its wake. Nonima & Stormfield’s Stratosphere EP is like a chaotic […]
Alavux :: Octagon (Bass Agenda)
Boundaries are broken and trampled as styles limits are danced across and spat upon. A 12” that will have the neighbors bangin’ on the walls. […]















