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 […]
Tag: Synth
Dream Weapons :: Reach Dystopia (MRT)
Strong and strident beat patterns with subtle key changes and bold 303 strokes. Unsurprising, Lux Rec’s sub label set the bar pretty high with its […]
Thirteen, unlucky for some; not for Kernkrach.
I find it hard to come at Kernkrach from a critical angle. For thirteen years they have been pioneering synthesizer music. The German label has […]
The Silicon Scientist :: Outside the Night (Anna Logue)
Anna Logue released one of the year’s best synth-pop albums in 2014 with Twins Natalia’s spellbinding The Destiny Room and with the late 2015 release […]
Cygnus :: Radical User Interfaces EP (Central Processing Unit)
Cygnus explores the tropes and memes of early techno and electro: snappy snares, pulsing, wobbling bass and shimmering arpeggios weaved around a futuristic sound and […]
exm :: llmnt (Touched Music)
The album abounds with weird, wonderful sounds, complex rhythms, cold, haunting melodies and a whole lot of dark, dim elements that make it a great […]
Manie Sans Délire :: Manie Sans Délire (June)
A record that skips across the lines of wave, house, ebm and techno. Last month I was lucky enough to hear June doing his thing […]
Wall $treet :: Trading for Love (Mysidian)
Drum programs are more intricate, melodies flutter into unexplored flights of fancy without floating off into wilderness. The music of Nico Nightingale is progressing quite […]
Frak :: Primitive Drums (Lux Rec)
“Frak is someone who never disappoints. It is not just one record, or their music, but the attitude of the group and the label, Borft, […]
Dead Fader :: Dosage EP (Touchin’ Bass)
Dead Fader (aka John Cohen) is most known for his work on Robot Elephant and the brilliant collaboration with Sensational on the Work It, No […]
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 […]
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