Attempting catch-up on unretentive Dutch ambient-electronica label, Shimmering Moods, we content ourselves with fleeting flick-throughs—passing post-its popped on a shamelessly billowing summer-winter catalog. First up, Dimitar Dodovski, sometime […]
Tag: Electronics
Modus :: Quattro & Piano Chain / The Garden Of Sinus (Wo-Land/Marmo)
In parts its bumpy, even jarring, at other moments it’s as smooth as silk. One thing you can be sure of, it’s always different and […]
Venetian Snares :: Your Face EP (Planet Mu)
Your Face is ineloquent, unstructured, crazy, obtuse, perverted. It’s a powerful spectacle of sound that’s debilitating and irritating all at once. Same old Venetian Snares […]
Xu :: Floater (Cathedral Transmissions)
Fornasari gets back to us with a new corpus of exceptionally moving and obscure sound collages and immersive drone tapestries. Nicola Fornasari (aka Xu) is […]
Lunar Lodge :: Panacea (Concrete)
These tracks burn slowly, guttering to points of blackened breaks and bleak acid washes. All the traditional markers of techno are present, but on this […]
TH ± Tar Hallow :: From the blackened pits
The Netherlands does electronics well. In spite of its size Holland is a heartland of machine music. Clone. Bunker. Crème Organization. Viewlexx. Bordello A Parigi. […]
Mike Allen :: Juxt (Sun Sea Sky)
A lot of what’s heard in Juxt is the pulsing thump of a kick drum, atmospheric synths and that sequenced ‘clickty-clickty-clickty’ percussive noise, which clicks […]
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 […]
Celer & Machinefabriek :: Compendium (Irrational Arts)
Full of light and space with a few dark corners, Compendium is a perfectly curated collection, packaged in charming, wish-you-were-here collaged cover art. Will Long plays well with […]
Stephan Mathieu :: Nachtstücke (Schwebung)
Peaceful drone hypnosis and cold sound sculptures that will ravish fans of the genre. Stephan Mathieu is a prolific and really active sound artist who […]
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 […]

















