A briny, seaweed-laden music box, the peal of a bell and its reverberation biting into its own tail, singing glasses, star bells and smoothly lurching starfish […]
Tag: Electronics
BITS & PIECES with Robert Rich
The first album you bought? I think it was “Chicago Transit Authority” around 1971 or so. I was about 8 years old and I liked […]
Luke Eargoggle / Kan3da / Weltwirtschaft :: Karl EP (Lunatic)
The 12” is electro of the frostier faction but there are moments of warmth coming through to thaw the chill. Dark and bitter sounds from […]
Christopher Bissonnette :: Pitch, Paper & Foil (Kranky)
Modular synthesis is more liable to unruly and unkempt behavior than delicate or subtle gesture, but here Bissonnette’s economy and deftness of touch make for […]
Luxus Varta :: Everything is Nothing (Hubble Telescope Series 1) (Solar One Music)
Following Elektronische Werke and The Crystal Issue Cycle comes The Hubble Telescope Series. This latest set of releases are an homage to the eponymous instrument […]
Dub Spencer & Trance Hill :: Physical Echoes (Echo Beach)
The dub phenomenon strikes again with a new record. Dub Spencer & Trance Hill released its eighth album a couple of days ago via the […]
Boneless One :: Hazard Bringer (ProForm Series)
Music to blister eardrums and break speakers; in other words proper dark and mean techno. I was surprised when Tabernacle Records announced its Ride the […]
Year’s End Mood Shimmers
Ultra-prolific Shimmering Moods present their final releases for 2015, so quick heads up before we get too far into 2016, in the spirit of news rather than […]
DROWNED RECORDS :: From Bremen with bite
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 […]
Kazuya Matsumoto :: Mizu no Katachi (Spekk)
Like nature herself, Mizu no Katachi is neither minimalist nor maximalist, but equal-tempered, the earthbound reality of Pythagoras’ postulated “music of the spheres.” Coming from […]
x.y.r. :: Mental Journey To B.C. (Not Not Fun)
Vladimir Karpov floats fetid Formanta-mini (‘vintage Soviet keytar‘) loops and neo-vaporwave wibble over soft primitivist machine rhythms backlit with a mezzotint of remote insect drone […]

















