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Benoit Pioulard : Hymnal

14/03/2013

Mechanisms for the reordering of memory and forward living. Benoit Pioulard : Hymnal. Released 4th March on Kranky ...

Earnest Endeavours | Mono/Poly

06/03/2013

Secret Video Invite : MONO/POLY + FREE THE ROBOTS EUROPE TOUR MARCH 2013. Thurs 14-Mar-13 @ Village Underground...

Nhoah : Tangowerk

28/02/2013

Nhoah's reappraisal of Tango is painted in bold strokes, dappling the Argentianian rhythms and Iberian histrionics with electronica and sequenced beats, rather than vice versa....

Mono/Poly European Tour 2013

22/02/2013

London is treated to a rare UK performance by Psych-Soul visionary Mono/Poly 2013...

Loitered Lens : Neurotic Mass Movement

17/02/2013

Photographer Carl Batson captures Neurotic Mass Movement onstage....

Dubstep Allstars Vol. 10 – Plastician

06/02/2013

Trying to unite the disparate tendencies into a compilation is already ambitious but trying to unite them into a continuous mix could seem like asking for trouble. Plastician produces some...

Dobie : We Will Not Harm You

31/01/2013

It has everything from raw beats to polished electro. It makes you want to dance and just sit down and get stoned all at the same time. It’s got a swagger to it....

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. ...

GOVES: A Crèche for the Lonely and Peculiar

03/01/2013

Sitting somewhere within the well-established tradition of trying to blend electronica and contemporary composition, this is introspective, lower-case music that by now seems a little out of its...

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....

Thomas Köner: Novaya Zemlya

06/11/2012

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”T/dropcaphomas Köner is an audiovisual artist whose name is indelibly associated with the chilling sub-genre sometimes known as Arctic...

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....

Interview: Paul Hardcastle – 19 Below Zero

03/10/2012

'I do use technology a lot, I always have done'. Paul Hardcastle talks to Trebuchet about 'Nineteen', sampling, dance music, technology and his new album 19 Below Zero...

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...

Redrails [Album]

12/09/2012

Challenging, Redrails most certainly is. Rewarding, in equal measure. Intriguing, and destined to be the source of many hours spent, headphones on, grasping to find the mental setting in which it all...

David Lynch : Crazy Clown Time [Deluxe Edition]

08/09/2012

David Lynch is a deft practitioner of ‘Vagueness of form’, as so evidently witnessed in Eraserhead, Lost Highway, Firewalk With Me, and, in fact - all his films. Crazy Clown Time uses a mixture...

BLOCatastrophe

22/08/2012

After what I experienced at Bloc I have to admit that I and thousands of others were completely taken in by the promise of a professionally-run event in an innovative new venue with an incredible...

Anklepants (Reechard Farché)

22/08/2012

Anklepants is the electronic barrel organ of your Freudian nightmares . The nightmares where you are being psychoanalyzed by a traveling salesman with a penis for a face. It's a silly stuff that...

Blur, New Order [Live]

18/08/2012

New Order. Their set is fuelled by absence’s tension from the outset but Bernard Sumner is making light of this. After the group are introduced he quips “apparently we’re New Order, we’ll do...

Matmos: Meltdown 2012

15/08/2012

Rather than understanding Matmos as a quirky part of the nineties electronica wave, maybe we should actually be interpreting them as a continuation of a much older tradition of musical comedy, albeit...

Queer British Paganism: Meltdown 2012

11/08/2012

Opening with Derek Jarman's Journey to Avebury the scene was gently set. A super 8 movie. Almost a travel document. A visual diary, a diary which continued throughout the night, for this wasn't a...

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...

Civil Civic + Umez: The Macbeth

03/07/2012

As with many gigs around this time of year, this was something of a competition: bands versus football. One end of The Macbeth was rather dominated by a projector and screen (showing an entertaining...

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....

Music in the Age of No-Effort

19/04/2012

‘97,751 albums released in a year’, Jeremy Schlosberg examines the implications of music market gluttony. I was talking to a music industry acquaintance on the phone not long ago and he...

MB + ICS: Vir.uz

05/04/2012

'a phenomenal portrait of the human soul', MB + ICS: Vir.uz...

Astral Projection and Ableton: Mono/Poly Interview

22/12/2011

Paramatma is about the supersoul.., I got it from a Vedic scripture and it talks (about) having the omnipresent god-spirit inside of you, that it’s (Paramatma) the observer and you’re the doer. -...