Spheric Music Robert Schroeder began making albums in 1979, being one of the artists on Klaus Schulze’s Innovative Communication label. He produced six wonderful albums for IC, including the mesmeric Galaxie Cygnus-A. He has produced a large body of electronic music over the last forty-two years, always pushing boundaries using […]
Monthly archives: April 2021
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Ever since discovering electronic music while at university, Ian Boddy has immersed himself in the world of synthesis, becoming a renowned exponent of the form, particularly active in ambient electronica as well as specialising in sound library creations and sound design. Working with collaborators including Robert Rich, Chris Carter, Markus […]
Audio Obscura Neil Stringfellow‘s Audio Obscura has followed up 2020’s Love In The Time Of The Anthropocene with another expansive and hugely diverse litany of the destruction that has been caused since the time that our species has been on the earth. It is an affecting and far-reaching suite of […]
Broken Tape I’ll apologise for being brusque, but there’s a lot to get through and we haven’t got all day. – What is harsh noise wall? It’s harsh noise, except less happens. Typically fairly long, typically just white noise, typically minimal if not no dynamics. Often abbreviated to HNW. If […]
Injazero There is something kind of fitting about the title to Mike Lazarev‘s latest mini opus. It is a work of real compositional thought and love, but although it comprises ten tracks, it clocks in at a little over twenty minutes. You may think that it would only constitute sketches […]
Death Waltz Originals Gong possessors ANTA, of Bristol legend, sutured to the might of international man of Italo mystery Antoni Maiovvi, who is definitely not from Bemmie before it got poncy. What is the score? Well. I am here for PURE MUSIC. And how pure it is! Pure as the […]
Bureau B Conrad Schnitzler is one of Krautrock’s founding fathers; he was part of the original line up of Tangerine Dream along with Klaus Schulze and he was an original member of Kluster, who renamed themselves Cluster after his departure. Schnitzler’s work straddles the line between avant-garde pieces to cosmic […]
Miasmah James Welburn certainly conjures up a sense of epic with this new LP, Sleeper In The Void. The reactive pleasure that is “Raze” ritually burning through your mind like a restless phantom, then plunge-pooled into a corrosive bath of grainy noise, twisting Soliloquy For Lilith-like on bassy parabolics and […]
Gizeh The brief spoken-word section, remote and benign, of the drifting opening track to Christine Ott‘s latest release, Time To Die, lends an air of tired truth to the doomy and distorted soundscape. Electronic sounds waver in the dust of a far-flung outpost, distant and interminable.
Sulatron Before I discuss the music, I have to say what an incredibly beautiful re-release this is from Sulatron Records. Not only does Mind Control: The Ultimate Edition look wonderful in its yellow and black splatter 180-gramme vinyl, but it sounds fantastic as well (also available on two CDs with […]
Misanthropic Agenda Quite where we are here I’m not entirely sure. I don’t really follow a lot of noise or musique concrète or, like, whatever this is. But that this is a 4CD boxset suggests that either Francisco Meirino‘s of some standing or the label owe him a favour for […]
Ala Bianca The latest release from Sicilian percussionist Alfio Antico finds him staring out form the rural cover like a nineteenth century mesmerist, his gaze unyielding as he prepares to draw us in to his unique soundworld of sung-spoken folk tales set against the musical wealth of his players and […]
Kindarad Those of you who’ve been following MXLX (he of Fairhorns, Knife Library, very etc) will know he’s a slippery bugger. His earlier days — mostly characterised by the now-defunct Team Brick project — went through a series of phases, sometimes in the same gig, pulling in stimmy noise, klezmer-after-burial, […]
Discus For Treppenwitz‘s third musical adventure, the trio set up in a living room and pressed record to see what could be captured over the course of two days’ improvisation. That sense of intimacy and immediacy is perfectly captured on this document that finds them further blurring the boundaries that […]