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Application : System Fork

11/07/2014

Fascinating hybrid forms that don't fit easily into genres, but operate along a fluid ambient/electronica/electro spectrum...

Metrist : The People Without

24/06/2014

These are not clean, conventional productions and are all the more interesting for it. ...

Hans Bouffmyhre

17/06/2014

Four different tracks from an album given different treatments. Hans Bouffmyhre's Where I Belong remixes. Review...

Modvs : Mayfield EP

15/05/2014

Proof that techno doesn't have to choose between being conceptual/atmospheric and forceful...

Sendai : A Smaller Divide

28/04/2014

There's a very interesting and productive tension between chaos and order and light and dark running through the album....

Óscar Mulero / Pole Group : Interview

25/02/2014

We don't have one type of sound that we want to focus on or develop to a higher or lesser degree, we just make music and if it fits our philosophy, we release it....

Slip Discs : Servants Jazz Quarters

30/12/2013

A very varied night presented by the avowedly playful Slip Discs, committed to breaking down what they see as strict divisions between afficionados of contemporary composition and wider audiences...

DJ Red : Interview

18/12/2013

I was really inspired by artists such as Autechre, Plaid, Boards of Canada and Monolake. I get very inspired by Berlin too, the city in which I’m currently living. ...

'looking for contentment in constant attempts to establish a connection to something which may not even be real, and finding at the end that there's still hope and drive.' Dalglish explains Niaiw Ot...

Sawlin & Subjected [Interview]

21/11/2013

We do this kind of music to do something, what you don't expect. More experimental and trippy stuff. Sawlin & Subjected talk to Trebuchet's Codex Europa. ...

Peter Van Hoesen : Life Performance

25/10/2013

This was a very spirited performance. It has the sound quality of a studio recording but the energy and sudden shifts of a live set...

These Hidden Hands [Album]

12/10/2013

Here the nostalgia isn't simplistically or naively wistful, but darker and tenser....

Pierre Deutschmann : Betroit

04/10/2013

It would have been all too easy to attempt this kind of fusion cynically or unimaginatively, but Berliner Pierre Deutschmann manouevres around these traps with great skill....

Terence Fixmer : Bells [EP]

11/09/2013

After over a decade of production, Terrence Fixmer's back catalogue is extensive and his production style well-defined. ...

Somaticae : Catharsis

21/08/2013

A totally distinctive set of odd atmospheres, abrupt gear shifts and unique combinations that sticks in the mind...

Adam X (Traversable Wormhole) : Interview

31/07/2013

'There was a strict agenda, but only in terms of designing it to being spatial and outer worldly-sounding.' Traversable Wormhole's Adam X talks to Codex Europa...

Soft Riot : Fiction Prediction

25/06/2013

There are some interesting concepts and experiments here, but the moral of the story is that those who live uncritically by the 1980s creatively die by the 1980s...

Subjected : Zero

12/06/2013

Although the press release talks of 'punishing' and 'strident' techno and its industrial qualities, there's often a feeling of restraint on this release...

Rebekah : Reconnected 03

02/05/2013

If you can get past the lifestyle techno corporate packaging, CLR releases some very good work...

Schultz: White Blood Cells

16/01/2013

It's a cliché but this one really is strictly for the hardcore and it's all the better for that. ...

Sigha: Living with Ghosts

27/11/2012

'Keeping the toxic new-age cliches at bay entails a danger of entirely immersing yourself in self-conscious gloom', Sigha manages to avoid the pitfalls....

Various Artists: Stellate 3 (Stroboscopic Artefacts)

22/10/2012

The Stellate series can be recommended not just as a collectors' wet dream or a dealers' safe bet but as an experimental series producing consistently interesting music that might not otherwise have...

ADMX-71: Second System

11/10/2012

'increasingly powerful percussion that should wreak devastation played on a big system' ADMX-71's Second System ticks all the right boxes for Trebuchet's reviewer....

DJ Stingray: Psyops for Dummies EP

22/09/2012

'The Sadist' is edgy from the outset and a great scene-setter. Constantly intensifying cold textures coil around an atmospheric voice sample, discreetly hinting at various dark scenarios. As it...

Oscar Mulero: Black Propaganda

06/08/2012

With Britain in the grip of near-compulsory enthusiasm for a militarised circus of corruption on an epic scale, there can hardly be a better time to be listening to an album entitled Black...

Kangding Ray Monad XI

30/06/2012

Monad XI is the latest in the Stroboscopic Arfects label's ongoing experimental series and marks a further development in the label's thoughtful aesthetics....

Tropic of Cancer: Permissions of Love

06/06/2012

Tropic of Cancer are the American duo Camella Lobo and Juan Mendez (a.k.a. Techno producer Silent Servant). They've slowly gained a following in the last couple of years and now present their...

Groof: Reality Fails

07/05/2012

'In the best tradition of Spanish minimal techno', Codex Europa reviews Roberto Gemelin's techno project Groof. Groof is veteran Spanish producer Roberto Gemelín a.k.a. Robert...

Orbital: Wonky

11/04/2012

'boredom, indifference, embarrassment and even disgust', Codex Europa reviews Orbital's Wonky In August 1993 I saw Orbital give a memorable show in a tent at the Deptford Free Festival....

Electric Deluxe Releases [Techno]

28/03/2012

Codex Europa reviews a series of techno releases on Speedy J's Electric Deluxe imprint Speedy J's Electric Deluxe is a reliable label that continues to issue a steady flow of thoughtful,...

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