Premiere: K. Leimer – SHM
Yawning harmonics and languid chimes, a soft tape hiss and life is stirred into a warm, edgeless existence. Dislocated rhythms, pliable and fluid, a well met marriage of the soft, perfumed keys of a grand piano...
Premiere: D104 meets Professor Raj – PALTRX004
Treading softly through the deep, padded inspiral terrain of heady, hash-stained drum and bass, nascent junglists D104 take us confidently into the Lyon’s dimly lit backroom with optimistic bass pressure, a low...
Premiere: Matti Bye – Loneliness Of Earth (Varg’s Ursviken Version)
Swedish pianist and composer Matti Bye is a name perhaps not often circulated over here; his work (predominantly scoring contemporary and silent film) is blue, grey and violet, similar to the forests which ador...
Braindance in Reykjavík: Volruptus talks naked landscapes and electro
The sounds of the universe. Bleak, chilly, organic, mysterious, we’re beamed messages from distant galaxies - harmonies and rhythm; could these be mathematical renderings of emotion?
Volruptus makes exceptiona...
Premiere: Xan – PP
Having moved to Moscow and ingratiated himself with ‘John’s Kingdom’, a creative community helmed by Pavel Milyakov (AKA Buttechno), Xan has moved quickly over the last couple of years refining his sound which ...
Premiere: Jee Day – Communication Masterbation
Dennis McNany dusts off his Jee Day alias for a rare outing on San Francisco’s Public Release Records. McNany, known also for his music as ‘Museum of Love’ with LCD Soundsystem’s Pat Mahoney, is a nice fit for ...
Fantastic Man balances futurism and rave nostalgia on new Superconscious Records release
Fantastic Man returns to the vein which his last Superconscious release sought, affecting a trance gate with effortless fluency and confidence. Out mid-December, it marks the return to Mic Newman's regular moni...
OKO DJ’s favourite doom electronics and shamanic spells
If you can judge a person by the company they keep, Marine Torjmann, AKA OKO DJ, is one of the soundest people around. Heading up the Parisian arm of one of the best independent radio stations on the internet (...
Dark Entries give Smersh and Psychic TV affiliates Virginia the reissue treatment
Having generously spotlit a prolific clutch of rarities in 2017, Dark Entries arrive at the end of the year with yet more exciting news. Out today, a collaboration with the obscura repress arm of Chuggy Leath’s...
Premiere: Phil Stroud – City Living
Noise In My Head boss Michael Kucyk’s voraciously thirsty, backwards facing gaze (demonstrated masterfully in his Efficient Space imprint and NTS tracklists) shifts to inspect the contemporary domestic climate,...