Premiere: Sleep D – Head Flip
If there's one thing tying the Altered States Tapes curation together, besides the Aussie label's undeniably experimental edge, it's a dedication to the austere. Musique concrète, violent maelstroms of techno a...
If-Only Podcast #31: Broshuda
Intricately woven and palliative, Broshuda productions exude a level of emotion often absent through the de-humanising of experimental digital sounds. A purveyor of electro-acoustic compositions and rhythmic ex...
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...
Börft Records lines up releases from Dan Fun and Obergman
Börft Records built its reputation over many years as the singular source for those seeking off-centre, experimental music originating from the Nordics. A great deal of the artists that make up the label’s rost...
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 (...
Premiere: Bonebrokk – Choose Ur Illusion (Jay Glass Dubs Version)
Forthcoming on Athens imprint Trial & Error, label boss Mario Naris unleashes 3 slabs of rolling, slugging and often squelching techno, complete with an ethereal deconstruction by Jay Glass Dubs on the flip...
Cru Servers – Blubber Totem
Gurgling up from the broiling mulch, Cru Servers make solid 12th Isle’s imprint whilst taking us further into the uneasy and unfamiliar. Whereas the label’s initial release might have been intercepted signals f...
Premiere: Indoor Plants – Dandelions
Steeped in history, the Russian city of Smolensk has an endearingly traditional feel to it. That's why the emergence of producers like Gamayun and Indoor Plants AKA Vyacheslav Shutov might seem like a real curv...
UnknownmiX – Chew Some More
Zürich-based label Lux Rec release some native Swiss material with Chew Some More, a refined taster of the band UnknownmiX. The group, who were active from 1983 to 1992, put out five LPs and three EPs of materi...
Lutto Lento – Dark Secret World
Polish artist Lubomir Grzelak, AKA Lutto Lento, returns with his first proper release of 2017, and it proves to be the experimental producer’s debut album no less. Put out by UK label Where To Now?, the intrigu...