‘When musicians play music, they play with sound. Play is the key activity. Like a child with paint or clay—you start with nothing and you […]
Tag: Soundscape
Astrolobes and Electronics :: Mystic and Quantum Records
Soulful sounds from the verdant forests of northern Spain. I don’t know if it’s my living here, but I’m constantly coming across more and more […]
Tlön :: Truth In The 13th (Birkhouse)
A whirred world of kinetic scree slopes with synthetic colourings. ‘Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius’ (1962) is a Jorge Luis Borges parable, in which an article about […]
Roberto Crippa :: Reverse (We Can Elude Control)
Reverse paints a cityscape of greying facades, wondrous skylines and a somewhat frightening underbelly. We Can Elude Control really caught my attention last year with […]
Keith Berry :: Towards the Blue Peninsula (Infraction)
Towards the Blue Peninsula is possessed of a grandeur that belies the lowercase subtlety of the compositions, bearing a freight of ineffability, the key the […]
Featureless Ghost / Osborn :: Double review (Acoustic Division)
Acoustic Division is definitely coming of age. Featureless Ghost and Osborn are two top quality EPs, each filled with emotive and heartening electronics that works […]
Anton Maiovvi :: Monoceroticism (Flight Recorder)
He started out with Italo and Hi-NRG influenced sounds, but since those beginnings the Bristol born musician has shifted into the realm of soundtracks and […]
Illustration Sonore / Paul Nelson :: Double review (Medical)
With their latest two releases Seattle’s Medical Records is making a new. As the label grows Troy Wadsworth is continuing his examination of the past […]
Kaboom Karavan :: Hokus Fokus (Miasmah)
Hokus Fokus successfully subverts one’s preconceptions of what qualifies as an enjoyable noise, managing to be approachable and challenging in equal measure. There are three […]
Stuart Chalmers :: Crossings (Somehow)
Overall, Crossings sees Chalmers depart from a somewhat unkempt bruitism characterizing other releases towards a more finished melodically-inclined model—a balance of timbres, particulate and nebulous, […]
















