While free jazz, metal and electronic squigglism are all components, the relentlessly massed power drone of Ascend to Nothing might also aspire to something more, an […]
Tag: Techno
Drum Machine :: Space Suite (Lower Parts)
Subtle and soulful techno is shouldered by belligerent and bawdy bassline brutes. Lower Parts is carving out an enviable position for itself. True, within the […]
Dexter St. Jacques :: Ancient Way of Knowing (Sequencias)
Both offerings have an enviable live quality, as though done on the hoof and recorded in real time; although a couple more tracks would have […]
Datach’i :: Machine intelligence and Monarch butterflies
Gabriel Weinstock caught up with Joseph Fraioli (aka Datach’i) and was able to speak to him about his new album System, the Eurorack modular format […]
V/A :: V.A. 2 (La Beauté Du Négatif)
Despite being quite a different entity to its predecessor, V.A.2 feels like a natural development rather than a split from past lineages. Harder tones are […]
Nigel Samways & Foss Moigne :: Sanyo 07.1 / Sanyo 07.2 (Remixes) (I Never Think Of You)
Sanyo 07.1 / Sanyo 07.2 (Remixes), credited to the duo, are on the other hand smooth and refined, softening the clank of a temple bell, enveloping […]
XXX :: Noorder Scannen (Poverty Is Violence)
Percussion bends into bars, thump hammered into spiking synth as XXX pours hot oil on his choking sounds. Poverty Is Violence bellowed into existence with […]
Carl Finlow / Dez Williams :: Bleem / Interference Pattern split EP (Bass Agenda)
An EP of gnarled and grinding gears, of twisted metal and jagged sounds from two artists illustrating why they are well considered among Britain’s electro […]
Cathode Ray Tube :: Life Among the Rust (Component)
Life Among the Rust dips into and out of audible oxidation, revealing along the way its story of curious, exploratory and emotive electronics. Chang Terhune, fellow […]
Techno’s Outer Limits :: July 2016
Latest emission from Techno’s Twilight Zone of EPs, 12″s & LPs with notes in the margins. First Italy, where Dino Sabatini has launched the Outis Opera sub-series with a first […]
Sinner DC :: MEG/CDG (Mental Groove / Geneva Ethnography Museum)
Sinner DC is all circular, all spinning. It is silvery particles being held together by some undiscoverable but essential dark matter. Unreduced surface noise is […]
















