There’s so much clever and so little content in Walzerzyklus that it’s tempting to to brush it off as an exercise in style over substance. […]
Tag: Raster-Noton
Belief Defect :: Decadent Yet Depraved (Raster)
Decadent Yet Depraved is a music which can only exist in—and reflect—the pulverized remains and contradictions of a giddy late capitalist plunge into its own […]
Techno’s Outer Limits :: April 2017
First transmission of 2017 from Techno’s Twilight Zone of EPs/12″s and LP, with notes in the margins. https://youtu.be/COnuKIvWZks James Shaw, the artist known as Sigha, we’re told […]
V/A :: Source Book 1 (Raster-Noton)
The markers that identify the boundaries of the label’s surface area — techno, ambient, musiqué concrete — are on display, and the terrain inside them […]
Jesse Osborne-Lanthier :: Unalloyed, Unlicensed, All Night! (Raster-Noton)
An abrasive, agitated and swift EP that bursts at the seams, as it should, based on its initial construct. Robust and well-rounded, it’s hard to […]
Igloo Magazine :: Best of 2015
So here it is—from ambient drone to post-rock, jazz and modern classical, from IDM to experimental to post-digital microsound; hallucinatory electronics to experimental soundscapery, candy-color […]
Kangding Ray :: Cory Arcane (Raster-Noton)
Insistent and incessant loops built from clustered assemblages of staccato chunks of sound achieve a kind of weightless velocity, churning heat out from the furious […]
Senking :: Closing Ice (Raster-Noton)
Closing Ice is a great example of how to work in darkness while shedding light without more heat. In an interview in The Wire circa […]