Bureau B The opener “Electric Garden” on Bureau B‘s re-release of Conrad Schnitzler‘s 1978 album Con sets up a wonky forest of purr-cussive sirens that mercurially glisten, shapes that gently ricochet the headphones in buttery artificiality, form-filled but formless, bending that Karlheinz Stockhausen concrete into something less stoic and more playful.
Monthly archives: July 2020
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Tapete Symbiosis is Nathalie Bruno‘s first solo album-length outing as Drift.. After membership of Leave The Planet and Phosphor, and her Black Devotion and Genderland EPs, Nathalie decided to lock herself away and search within to complete a collection of tracks that would hold together as an album. it is fair to say that on the strength of Symbiosis, she has succeeded in that plan.
Bureau B A splinter from the original Faust family, Gunther Wüsthoff presents a selection of his solo work as Total Digital via Bureau B. The title is one which the first three tracks encompass superbly in a triptych of machined doodles, pre-fixed by “TransNeptun”, a series far removed from planet Faust as it is humanly possible.
Courier Sound The latest release from The Spermaceti Organ, on a lovely cassette from Courier Sound, is a crazy, lurid yellow in an orange outer case; a vibrant and vivid release that is somehow the opposite of the distant light-smeared visions evoked by the sounds.
André Stordeur was a pioneer of modular synth music and the leading exponent of the form in his native Belgium; sadly, he passed away in April 2020 before being able to complete a session or be interviewed for Philippe Petit‘s Modulisme. A session was however constructed from historic recordings, and the interview (which has already appeared on Modulisme) reproduced below dates from 2018, conducted by Chris Ferreira.
Discus Martin Archer must be one of the busiest men in music. Not content with running Discus, every other release seems to have some involvement from him, covering so many different styles and moods it is remarkable. Here we find him teaming up once again as Das Rad with Nick Robinson and Steve Dinsdale for another improvised excursion into noir-ish soundscape territory. Adios Al Futuro is the follow […]
Bright Shiny Things It might be that “landscape”‘ is as much defined by borders as it is landmass. Jobina Tinnemans‘ music (arguably) has a dual relationship with landscape — when we say the landscape of electronic music, we might mean IDM, electronica, soundscapes, field recordings (etc), each with their own borders. Tinnemans is clearly not beholden to such impermeable notions of border.
Fabrik Birmingham’s Fabrik are releasing their second album of rolling, experiential grooves on the back of a previous track, “Black Lake”, being picked up for use as a podcast theme in the States. Via stateside crowdfunding, they have put together a physical release for this album that is packed full of slinky vibes and evocative soundscapes, twisting around the beguiling vocals of singer Hayley Trower.