Features
Decoding Future Music from Germany: Interview with Uwe Schütte
Alexei Monroe speaks to the author of the latest book to explore the art of Kraftwerk and their legacy. (read more)
Articles by Alexei Monroe
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Soundtracking the Void
In Honley Civic Archives Volume 1, Thomas Ragsdale distils a gaseous, wispy atmosphere that leaves control in the hands of the listener. (read more)
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“Everything Is Devolving Right Before Our Very Eyes” – Rhys Fulber
Trebuchet talks to Industrial and EBM kingpin Rhys Fulber (Front Line Assembly) about brand new release “Your Dystopia, My Utopia” (read more)
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Post-Techno and the Eminence of Melancholia – Liziuz
Tobias Lisius’s alter-ego Liziuz unleashes a brooding, Berlin-esque electronic soundscape in new release ‘Geschichten des Lebens’. (read more)
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No space for the unexpected – XOR Gate
Gerald Donald’s XOR Gate lands a glimpse into his vision of a machinic techno-future with new release ‘Conic Sections’ (read more)
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Distressed, Dirty, Disfunctional: Roma Zuckerman
Dirty, dysfunctional minimalism confuses and fascinates simultaneously (read more)
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From Me To You (Steven Rutter)
How does a futuristic vision hold up when time passes? Very well, in Steven Rutter’s case (read more)
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Kotä: Selected Works of Experimental Music and Art Expo
The Russians aren’t coming. But you can go to them. And should. (read more)
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Carve + Gaze (Wen)
Cautiously affirmative urban angst meets minimalist structure and Gaze theory. Win! (read more)
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PM20 Beta Evers/Spatial Relation (Split 12″ E.P.)
An interestingly polarised split release on Peripheral Minimal showcases different electro approaches (read more)
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Resisting Cosy Nostalgia at the Science Museum (Radiophonic Workshop, live)
Traversing a temporal and cultural fault-line between then and now (read more)
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Overwhelming and Almost Annihilating Awe: Dark Matter (Lustmord)
Lustmord draws upon an audio library of cosmological activity to confront us with deep, cosmic time (read more)
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Crystal Dwarf (KOMORA A)
Mysterious, focussed, disciplined. Komora A put some backbone into ambient. (read more)
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Who’s Afraid of Tonality? (Max Richter, Sleep @ Barbican)
As much gig as concert, The Barbican turns to Max Richter for crowd-pulling contemporary performance. Review (read more)
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An Ominous and Unsettling Ambience: #1 (Daghraven)
Intricately constructed and spanning the gap between melancholy and tragedy, Daghraven makes for brooding archeological listening (read more)
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Vivid and Almost Dangerous: A Trip To The Space [Between] (Frank Behnko)
Atmospheric experimental analogue synthesis, without the navel-gazing self-regard (read more)
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Peau froide, léger soleil (Vainio & Vigroux)
A review of the Cosmo Rhythmatic label’s third release: Vanio & Vigroux’s Peau Froid, Leger Soleil (read more)
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Radioland: Kraftwerk’s Radio-Activity revisited (Matthew Bourne/Franck Vigroux)
Radioland: A Kraftwerk re-werk that is well-executed, worthy but only partially successful. (read more)
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Music turned septic. Kalash Tirich Mir (German Army)
The faltering synth drones and brittle percussion of Kalash Tirich Mir seem like a terribly appropriate soundtrack to our cultural stalemate (read more)
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De Aeris In Sublunaria Influxu (Troum & Raison d’être)
De Aeris In Sublunaria Influxu is not an album whose complexity or power can be instantly grasped. It requires some time and effort. (read more)
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I wouldn’t say that people should play it at their weddings (Senking)
Known for his intricately-produced and powerful electronic soundscapes, Senking talks to Trebuchet (read more)
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I Dream of Wires: A history of modular synthesis (Film)
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 (read more)
Art
Scenes & Sonics (National Gallery)
Six very different musicians/sound artists/composers each select a work from the National’s collection and create a soundtrack to accompany it. (read more)
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Sonically cosmic, if not slightly kosmische [Amon Tobin]
Tobin modestly describes the release as a “small personal project”, but conceptually at least, it’s a major release. (read more)
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Defiantly and Successfully Indulgent : Xerrox vol.3 [ALVA NOTO]
If the previous volumes were more concerned with technique and texture, this volume’s emphasis on emotion is clear from the start. (read more)
Society
The Radiophonic Workshop. Queen Elizabeth Hall, 2015
Although they’re still going strong these are in a way end-of-an-era shows carrying a huge and fascinating weight of history. (read more)
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Cannibalisation: recycling of recyclings of recyclings [Asmus Tietchens : Fahl]
Does the strategy of infinite recycling accrue a new aesthetic or degrade the existing one? (read more)
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Our ‘songlines’ are contained in our technology, we are technological beings [Cristian Vogel]
ith releases spanning two decades, Cristian Vogel is widely recognised as one of the more thoughtful and inventive producers of his time. In the 1990s he produced extremely innovative techno and electronic music released on (read more)
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Alcalica : YΔΩP
A valuable document of Europe under conditions of imminent neo-feudalism (read more)
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Zeitkratzer : WHITEHOUSE
ithin the institutionalised avant-garde, overt but actually often inert rule-breaking is the norm. There are numerous hidden codes and limits setting a constantly-shifting line between good and bad rule-breaking. Active since 1997, one of the (read more)