Author: Alexei Monroe

From Speak and Spell to Laibach.

The Serenely Uncanny Sound of Destruction: Foster Neville

25/01/2022

How do fake folk memories and an uncanny set of influences inform a new electronic music release? Alexei Monroe reviews Foster Neville's The Edge of Destruction on Bibliotapes....

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Special Interest: New Orleans Noir

23/06/2021

It may be a cold passion, but it’s one that marks them out from the hordes of less spirited and complacent groups...

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Neunau: Sound Art from Ancient to Modern

24/05/2021

Neunau is a connection between worlds that might seem distant from one another, this allows me to work on various levels...

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Sound of Belgium

History Remixed to a New Beat

24/02/2021

Belgian New Beat fuelled a perfect storm of moral panic on a French TV report about the scene. Yet like punk, condemnation made it more successful. ...

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The Surrealist Practice of Twenty-First Century Populism

14/09/2020

‘Surreal’ is a word that many increasingly reach for, a (hopelessly inadequate) description for the daily cavalcade of cataclysmic and bizarre events we’re confronted by....

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Nicolas Bougaïeff on the Art of Dragging Techno Upwards

09/09/2020

Alexei Monroe discusses optimism, constructive techno and societal change with electronic pioneer Nicolas Bougaïeff...

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Decoding Future Music from Germany: Interview with Uwe Schütte

03/03/2020

Alexei Monroe speaks to the author of the latest book to explore the art of Kraftwerk and their legacy....

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Soundtracking the Void

15/10/2018

In Honley Civic Archives Volume 1, Thomas Ragsdale distils a gaseous, wispy atmosphere that leaves control in the hands of the listener....

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“Everything Is Devolving Right Before Our Very Eyes” – Rhys Fulber

25/06/2018

Trebuchet talks to Industrial and EBM kingpin Rhys Fulber (Front Line Assembly) about brand new release "Your Dystopia, My Utopia"...

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Post-Techno and the Eminence of Melancholia – Liziuz

07/05/2018

Tobias Lisius's alter-ego Liziuz unleashes a brooding, Berlin-esque electronic soundscape in new release 'Geschichten des Lebens'....

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No space for the unexpected – XOR Gate

11/04/2018

Gerald Donald's XOR Gate lands a glimpse into his vision of a machinic techno-future with new release 'Conic Sections'...

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Roma Zuckerman

Distressed, Dirty, Disfunctional: Roma Zuckerman

12/12/2017

Dirty, dysfunctional minimalism confuses and fascinates simultaneously...

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Steven Rutter

From Me To You (Steven Rutter)

04/12/2017

How does a futuristic vision hold up when time passes? Very well, in Steven Rutter's case...

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Kotä: Selected Works of Experimental Music and Art Expo

27/10/2017

The Russians aren't coming. But you can go to them. And should....

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Carve + Gaze

Carve + Gaze (Wen)

22/09/2017

Cautiously affirmative urban angst meets minimalist structure and Gaze theory. Win!...

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Beta Evers, Spatial Relation EP

PM20 Beta Evers/Spatial Relation (Split 12″ E.P.)

25/08/2017

An interestingly polarised split release on Peripheral Minimal showcases different electro approaches...

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Radiophonic Workshop

Resisting Cosy Nostalgia at the Science Museum (Radiophonic Workshop, live)

30/06/2017

Traversing a temporal and cultural fault-line between then and now...

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Overwhelming and Almost Annihilating Awe: Dark Matter (Lustmord)

23/09/2016

Lustmord draws upon an audio library of cosmological activity to confront us with deep, cosmic time...

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Crystal Dwarf (KOMORA A)

14/07/2016

Mysterious, focussed, disciplined. Komora A put some backbone into ambient....

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Max Richter, Sleep

Who’s Afraid of Tonality? (Max Richter, Sleep @ Barbican)

01/06/2016

As much gig as concert, The Barbican turns to Max Richter for crowd-pulling contemporary performance. Review...

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Daghraven

An Ominous and Unsettling Ambience: #1 (Daghraven)

20/05/2016

Intricately constructed and spanning the gap between melancholy and tragedy, Daghraven makes for brooding archeological listening...

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Vivid and Almost Dangerous: A Trip To The Space [Between] (Frank Behnko)

06/05/2016

Atmospheric experimental analogue synthesis, without the navel-gazing self-regard...

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Vainio and Vigroux

Peau froide, léger soleil (Vainio & Vigroux)

01/02/2016

A review of the Cosmo Rhythmatic label's third release: Vanio & Vigroux's Peau Froid, Leger Soleil...

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Radioland: Kraftwerk’s Radio-Activity revisited (Matthew Bourne/Franck Vigroux)

08/01/2016

Radioland: A Kraftwerk re-werk that is well-executed, worthy but only partially successful....

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Kalash Tirich Mir

Music turned septic. Kalash Tirich Mir (German Army)

04/01/2016

The faltering synth drones and brittle percussion of Kalash Tirich Mir seem like a terribly appropriate soundtrack to our cultural stalemate...

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De Aeris In Sublunaria Influxu

De Aeris In Sublunaria Influxu (Troum & Raison d’être)

10/12/2015

De Aeris In Sublunaria Influxu is not an album whose complexity or power can be instantly grasped. It requires some time and effort....

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I wouldn’t say that people should play it at their weddings (Senking)

11/11/2015

Known for his intricately-produced and powerful electronic soundscapes, Senking talks to Trebuchet...

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I Dream of Wires: A history of modular synthesis (Film)

25/08/2015

Robert Fantinatto and Jason Amm's I Dream of Wires draws out the turning points in the history of modular synthesis and the music it continues to generate...

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Scenes & Sonics (National Gallery)

12/08/2015

Six very different musicians/sound artists/composers each select a work from the National's collection and create a soundtrack to accompany it....

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Amon Tobin Dark Jovian

Sonically cosmic, if not slightly kosmische [Amon Tobin]

05/06/2015

Tobin modestly describes the release as a “small personal project”, but conceptually at least, it's a major release....

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