A Coruscating Hope bends its structures into semi-familiar dance contours, then dissolves them. It’s here that a subtle storm of grayscale noise and electrical charge animates an intricate, shifting sound world—where experimental electronics meet a shadowy, tactile form of techno.
Tag: Techno
The Mellowtrons :: Protected EP (Voidstar Productions) — [concise]
A frenetic voltage crackles—diffuse yet finely honed into serrated, dub-drenched silhouettes—across Protected by The Mellowtrons (aka Lee Walker).
Snowbeasts & Solypsis :: Extinction Burst (Component)
Despite a 2,500-mile distance and sprawling solo discographies, Snowbeasts and Solypsis operate here as if face-to-face—crushing boundaries, igniting audio wreckage, and forging bold new altars of sound.
Terrace :: Branches (De:tuned)
The 2LP draws on the past while delivering a considered statement on the present. This is deep and engrossing music, tracks that have been given time to grow and mature under the ear of a pioneer of machine music.
Juan Atkins, Derrick May, Kevin Saunderson :: Detroit Techno — [flashback]
In this [Flashback] column, Anne Jackson explores the origins of Detroit Techno, a genre born in the early 1980s from the city’s underground dance scene. Pioneered by African-American artists Juan Atkins, Derrick May, and Kevin Saunderson—collectively known as the Belleville Three—techno fused elements of funk, electro, and early electronic music. Shaped by Detroit’s industrial backdrop and the socio-economic challenges facing its residents, the genre became both a form of artistic innovation and a powerful outlet for expression within the African-American community.
Swagger Life :: Purity, innovation and constant improvement
Otis Cox is a DJ, producer, graphic designer, visual artist and photographer now based in Hasselt, Belgium. As Swagger Life, he released “Hyperfake,” a deconstructed […]
bvdub | Brock Van Wey :: Unbreakable
Unbreakable is a passage, a sweet wound, an epiphany that digs and mends. An act of love to be lived in silence, eyes closed, in the darkness of a room or of the soul.
V/A :: Making Things Happen: Netlabel Day 10th Anniversary Compilation (Mahorka)
Key actor and indie label in the vast panorama of modern day electronica and sound art, Mahorka started its creative adventure back in 2000-2001 with strongly aligned ideas to participate actively in advanced experimental music worldwide and from various cultural horizons.
Cathode Ray Tube :: Canciones en la clave de Pelea (Condition Human) — [concise]
Something jagged and instinctive pulses through Cathode Ray Tube’s latest four-track transmission—just over thirty minutes of fractured rhythms and kinetic sputter.
ScanOne :: Zero Zero EP (Yellow Machines)
Unrelenting and visionary, this EP is a high-caliber dispatch from a producer still pushing far beyond the present.
V/A :: Perimeter Loops Vol. II (Perimeter Junk)
A tightly curated suite of short but potent DJ tools: compact, flavorful, and rhythmically cohesive. In this second volume, Perimeter Loops Vol. II navigates an eclectic terrain—swapping between buoyant, downtempo, and propulsive loopscapes.















