Codex Europa, Author at Trebuchet

Monoloc: Drought

08/04/2019

A magic EP of two instant classics...

Blush Response (Interview)

14/11/2017

'I don’t know what a Berlin album is but it’s definitely a me album'...

Pact Infernal on Stroboscopic Artefacts (Monad XXV)

01/09/2017

Architectural depth and space, dark sonics, incantatory beats - Stroboscopic Artefacts produce the goods once more...

Battle Standards (Talker)

07/08/2017

Cold, then colder still. Talker emboss style and character onto the electronic music mileu...

Part Time Punks Sessions (Inhalt)

25/05/2017

Is contemporary artists carrying on the electronic traditions of the 1980s: a cultural ourobouros or just clean fun?...

Demands will be placed on the Listener. Bitter Music (Perc)

09/05/2017

Perc's Bitter Music is stylistically labyrinthine, full of murky passages and the occasional dead end...

Optimistic By Definition: 30drop on Techno’s Future (Interview)

06/03/2017

'Technology will be the vehicle that leads us to that new revolution'...

Inexorable Implosions, Ominous Promise: Grebenstein

07/02/2017

Simultaneously sobering and intoxicating decelerationist post-techno...

Snare Drum Love: Interview (Le Spectre)

21/10/2016

Le Spectre's Yann Levasseur talks about simply trying to be creative and dark ...

Manifesto for a Future Sonic Programme: Mugako (J.C. )

13/09/2016

J.C. delivers abstract and ominous techno soundscapes with a political edge...

SHXCXCHCXSH SsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSs (Yes, really)

27/07/2016

Genuinely memorable music, if a difficult name to remember - Swedish duo SHXCXCHCXSH release SsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSs...

Relentless Euphoria on Halocline Trance? (Limit EP)

20/07/2016

An oddly sequenced release, but one that definitely has intriguing and powerful elements. Review...

Like circuit bending, but with more control: Interview (Weightausend)

24/05/2016

Weightausend discusses hijacking obsolete digital sound modules, hash-induced panic attacks, and Doctor Who ...

‘More alike than we are different’. noeverything I AM (Interview)

29/03/2016

Their music blends innovative electronics, pop-influenced sweetness, and spiritual elements. Codex Europa interviews noeverything....

Music rooted in a landscape, yet unapologetically synthetic. (Avalon Emmerson)

22/03/2016

Avalon Emmerson musically evokes her home state, without reducing it to Marlboro man cliches...

Search Deep Inside Yourself (Surgeon)

17/03/2016

The continuing evolution of Surgeon's techno sound is apparent in a futuristic new EP. Review...

Sharp, Innovative Techno with Vision (Roland Werk)

04/03/2016

Roland Werk's D401 EP introduces a new artist who indicates a positive future for the techno genre. Review...

Confrontational, Awkward and Compelling (Scalameriya and VSK)

08/02/2016

Perc Trax Limited continues its dancefloor mission with teh confrontational pairing of Scalameriya and VSK. Codex Europa reviews....

Explora: Morose Dynamism for a Renewed Euphoria (Florian Kupfer)

04/09/2015

In Explora, Florian Kupfer's stated influence from the bleak Berlin winter seems evident...

No Ruinporn Here. Altstadt Echo Modern Cathedrals pt. 1 & 2

07/07/2015

Modern Cathedrals label founder Altstadt Echo steers between these two seductive poles, resisting the temptation to sonically contribute to the proliferation of Detroitian ruinporn ...

Dark moods and Militaristic Airs : Мир [Bedlam]

26/05/2015

There's a residual warmth in the superbly-produced bass but this can only be the prelude to or aftermath of some bleak scenario....

Describing Das Unheimliche. Interview: Davide Carbone/Honzo [Honzo]

03/05/2015

There is plenty of temporary music out there right now. The format does not matter but the intentions of the producers do. ...

Built with vision and prowess [Planetary Assault Systems]

21/03/2015

A thriving and rapidly evolving sonic ecosystem, producing an expansive soundfield that's simultaneously serene and nervous...

Four-track orange vinyl-only (Grey Branches)

09/01/2015

I think most of my output has an Industrial feel to it. It’s the first genre of music I really fell in love with as a teenager, and it’s seems I can’t undo that love. ...

Donor : Against All

03/01/2015

Schappert takes material from the present-day and brings out the dystopian aspects of a much closer and less-glamourous dystopian future....

(No) Token Gestures

16/12/2014

The circumstances of its birth have made Token determined to follow its own agenda and pay no attention to passing trends, focussing on what it sees as the most important elements of what it calls...