Alexei Monroe, Author at Trebuchet

Alva Noto’s Opulent Soundscapes

15/08/2023

A review of Alva Noto - This Stolen Country of Mine...

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....

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...

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...

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. ...

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...

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....

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....

“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"...

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'....

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'...

Distressed, Dirty, Disfunctional: Roma Zuckerman

12/12/2017

Dirty, dysfunctional minimalism confuses and fascinates simultaneously...

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...

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....

Carve + Gaze (Wen)

22/09/2017

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

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

25/08/2017

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

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

30/06/2017

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

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...

Crystal Dwarf (KOMORA A)

14/07/2016

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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....

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...

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...