Premiere: Modern Jazz – Zoom Dub
Resident Efficient Space archivist Steele Bonus has curated another compilation for the Melbourne label. It's been 4 years since Bonus compiled Oz Waves, but meeting the lofty expectations set by its predecess...
Premiere: Pop Negatif Wastad – Pop Negatif Wastad
Even by If-Only standards, Pop Negatif Wastad are one of the more curious bands to feature on the site. Comprised of Esyllt Anwyl and former Eastenders – yes, Eastenders, you read that right – cast member Gare...
Premiere: Modeux des Cieux – Constant Run
Besoins Premiers founder Leo Peinturier, AKA eo eintu, and German artist and vocalist Gregor Zentrich, AKA Pascal De Nuit, have unveiled Modeux des Cieux, a synth-pop project two years in the making.
Out soon ...
If-Only Podcast #63: Toxe
Toxe made something of a statement on her PAN debut. Blinks revealed a range previously unheard from the Swedish producer, exploring and drawing from the realms of IDM, electronica and deconstructed club music ...
Left Ear Records compile retrospective of West Berlin band I.A.O.
Left Ear Records have profiled the third and final iteration of elusive West Berlin band I.A.O. with a 16-track retrospective.
Written between 1988 and 1995, all tracks compiled by the Melbourne label were rec...
Sneaker’s bargain bin discoveries (J-R)
Starting with letters A through I, Dresden-based edit don and oddity connoisseur Sneaker DJ recently began to work through some of his favourite bargain bin discoveries in alphabetical order. Highlighting some ...
Sneaker’s bargain bin discoveries (A-I)
Releasing music under several different guises on labels like Emotional Rescue, Charlois, Bio Rhythm, Uncanny Valley, Bordello A Parigi and Macadam Mambo, Sneaker DJ has emerged as one of electronic music's hig...
Concept In Practice: Hysteric’s ‘Sunscreen Tears’ Mix
He's known as the brains behind Mothball Record, AKA the "Italo connection down under," but Hysteric's tastes extend far beyond the eccentric, synth-fuelled disco sounds of 1970s and '80s Italy. As electronic o...
“A moment in time”: Looking back at Solid Space’s ‘Space Museum’
In 1983, a 19 year old North Londoner Dan Goldstein started a job as sub-editing temp at the Cambridge-based music magazine Electronics and Music Makers. In a retrospective piece recalling his time at the magaz...
Stroom reveal compilation focused on Latvian multi-instrumentalist Ingus Baušķenieks
Ziggy Devriendt, AKA Nosedrip, has long mined the fringes of electronic music for curiosities new and old. Keeping that tradition alive, the Belgian has assembled a 10-track compilation of material recorded by ...