With plangent pads and heart-tug strings folded into deep bass pulses and off-kilter rhythms roamed through by a refined melodic sensibility, Silencer offers a view from and into […]
Tag: Electronica
Girių Dvasios :: Ratu (Cold Tear/Dangus)
Girių Dvasios makes hand-tufted dub, punching strands of circular song into a canvas of very rootsy dub, with organ bubbling, guitar doodling, and flutes and melodica singing […]
R.A.N :: Her Trembling Ceased (Partapart)
R.A.N (Roads At Night), has stitched together a patchwork of moods ranging from grey to pitch black into whole cloth by capturing the feel of “ill at […]
3VIEW :: Maps & Diagrams / x.y.r. (Handstitched*)
We catch up on three recent releases from Tim Martin’s Handstitched* imprint, two from the head of the house with his Maps & Diagrams hat on and one […]
TAPE :: Transmissions 5
Time for more tips from the world of cassette releases. As always, there’s so much amazing music out there—with a few favorites from various musical […]
Benjamin Finger :: Amorosa Sensitiva (Blue Tapes, X-Ray Records)
Finger paints multi-dimensional worlds from lo-fi ambient drones, sun-bleached synth-iness, with various infusions: low cello tides, percussive clusters swarming spectrally round piano motifs, techno tropes slowed down, […]
V/A :: Circuit Intégré Volume 1 – A Compilation of Contemporary Electronica (Zoharum)
An auspicious beginning to a series with significant inertial force. In the interest of cosmic (kosmische?) balance, Zoharum, the label known among other things for […]
Kangding Ray’s Raster-Noton Renewal
Cory Arcane is full of intriguing compositions characterized by Letellier’s intricate percussive programming, textural invention, and deep-buried melodies, fitting comfortably into the Raster-Noton aesthetic, while […]
John Lemke :: Nomad Frequencies (Denovali)
Once again, with his distinctive combination of adventurous ways of playing instruments, unconventional methods of sound design, boldness and honesty, Lemke has created a truly […]
Berlin. Detroit. Sheffield. Tallinn? :: Estonian Electronics from Porridge Bullet
Eastern Europe has been somewhat forgotten, even ignored, by electronic enthusiasts. Britain, Germany and the US are the historic epicenters with the likes of Scandinavia […]















