Premiere: Out 2 – Pale Fens
Out 2 is the pairing of Jeremy Campbell and R. Zanzibar, two Brooklyn residents who came together during and due to the Lectric Sands studio and label. Left to grow organically, the music Out 2 has finally laid...
Sim Hutchins reminisces on the ’90s nostalgia that inspired rave requiem, ‘Clubeighteen2thirty‘
Sim Hutchins comes through with a requiem to his formative years on latest release Clubeighteen2thirty. Swathed in his singular, hazy textures he remembers the tropes and traditions of raving, from dizzy, taste...
Premiere: Trenton Chase – Untitled 1
New Melbourne-based label Up North Records relish the bleak darkness in which artists like Nitzer Ebb, Chris and Cosey, SPK and Severed Heads occupy, gleefully putting out music unsettling and tense. The tapes ...
Moire Shimmers and Loop-Finding Jazz Records: Jan Jelinek in conversation
Jan Jelinek’s Loop-Finding Jazz Records got a reissue last year. One of those great records that is masterful in its nuance, it wanders hazily around in the overlapping venn sectors between dreamy sustained amb...
Premiere: Memphis – Untitled
Beaming loudly from Delft, we’re shown the first glimmers of hope from trippy new label Mirror Zone. For their first offering we’re presented with a piece of vital obscura from all the way back in 1994, a repre...
Premiere: No Moon – Mallet Fury
Already in rude health, Glaswegian juggernaut Craigie Knowes steamrolled through the early stages of 2018 with assistance from Textasy and Voiron. Staying on course, No Moon follows the hardcore, acid and techn...
Premiere: Wolfram – Automatic Dub (Samo DJ Automatic Remix)
The first release for Public Possession in 2018 is startling – it comes from Wolfram, making a neat segue away from DFA to turn out some unapologetic, anthemic Italo, which particularly remembers ‘Take a Chance...
Premiere: Pavel Milyakov – B.A.D.
Absolute madness on this one. Delivering the soundtrack to another Gosha Rubchinskiy runway show, RASSVET Records founder Pavel Milyakov (AKA Buttechno) delicately explores tirelessly inclining, heady trance lo...
Premiere: Indianizer – Mazel Tov II (Don’t DJ Remix)
The second release on Musica Altra swerves from the earnest beatsy pining of the debut into the hyper-energetic “psychedelic Italian Cumbia” of Indianizer, concealing a choice weirdo cut from Don’t DJ. Borne ou...
Premiere: Dust-e-1 – Ruff Cold
Soundboy’s strained call sounds stretched, warped in slowed motion then answered with a corrupted dub siren's faltering warble. The choppy Amen hi-hats and flurries of pitched, forward-leaning snares twitch fre...