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Amon Tobin’s Two Finger Step Out With Nomark

26/06/2020

An interview with electronic pioneer Amon Tobin on his venture away from seminal label Ninja Tune to stand by his own beats. ...

Quiet Assumption: The rise of Cryo Chamber

12/11/2019

Simon Heath's Dark Ambient label Cryo Chamber continues it's rising path of turbulent soundscapes and passionate drone....

In a Cage by Zonal [Video]

21/10/2019

Intense and heavy Zonal release a industrial riff on the Smashing Pumpkins - 'In a cage' on Relapse Video...

Coming by Petbrick [Video]

14/10/2019

Intense and electronic is this the new wave of brutal synth metal? Coming by Petbrick Video...

Abstract Formalism and Grafisk Världsbyggnad

28/08/2019

Understanding formal tendencies in Ambient Drone music through the work of France Jobin (Solitude) and Ager Sonus (Mithra)...

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....

The Tides Are In Our Veins

06/08/2018

Floridian Post-Rockers Tides of Man return with brand new instrumental release 'Everything Nothing'. ...

Nomadic music and the convergence of style – Tengger Cavalry

05/03/2018

Sometimes, the tropes of contemporary Western culture can combine with the music of other eras and nations to turn up unexpected results....

Bring back my old jeans, pop-nostalgia and Elan Noon

26/02/2018

Napinco encounters songwriter Keenan Mitag-Degala's project Elan Noon and new album 'Have A Spirit Filled'....

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....

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

30/06/2017

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

CAN: Unreleased Material. The Can Project: Barbican and Glastonbury Sets

05/04/2017

New releases, biography readings and gigs by the Can Project usher in a spring/summer of CAN related events...

Loitered Lens: Mirrors for Psychic Warfare

22/01/2017

Scott Kelly's new project Mirrors For Psychic Warfare touches down in Camden's Unicorn. ...

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...

Sonic Space Opera via a Magic Machine (An Endless Sporadic)

17/09/2016

Eclectic and Experimental, An Endless Sporadic's sonic space opera recalls the great Zappa...

SHXCXCHCXSH SsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSs (Yes, really)

27/07/2016

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

Loitered Lens: Battles

08/07/2016

Battles score a Warp-speed groove through the NOS Primavera faithful. Photos...

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...

Experimental Doom, Post Hardcore, and What Sounds Like Dustbin Lids (Birushanah)

09/04/2016

Japanese post-hardcore experimental brilliance this may be, but please stop banging those hubcaps. Birushanah reviewed...

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....

White Light, Infinity and a Love of Life (Swans Remasters)

16/10/2015

Swans continue their remastered reissues series on Mute / Young God Records...

A muscular form of ambient: Near Dark (Gideon Wolf)

01/10/2015

Emotional complexity and implied narrative - Gideon Wolf's ambient electronica has heart...

Handmade, Limited, New. The Next Swans Album… in YOUR Hands

03/09/2015

Swans handmade 2xLive CD, The Gate, Limited to 2500 Copies! Available now. ...

Exclusive track: Eighteen Nightmares at the Lux (Asphyxia)

13/08/2015

Listen to Asphyxia : Eighteen Nightmares at the Lux - released 14th August....

Looking up in Awe. Jaga Jazzist discusses Starfire

20/06/2015

Building a new instrument? No. I haven’t through about that, but it might be interesting…. ...

Defiantly and Successfully Indulgent : Xerrox vol.3 [ALVA NOTO]

30/05/2015

If the previous volumes were more concerned with technique and texture, this volume's emphasis on emotion is clear from the start....

Big bangs, pulsars, black holes and supernovas [Fujako]

16/04/2015

Off-key gamelan clangs, swarming keyboards and pitch-slowed kickdrums hammer that recurring distopian atmosphere home...

Misanthropic roots record for the rootless savage [Thomas Koner]

31/03/2015

As a leading musician within forward-thinking electronic music circles Koner's work around his theme presupposes an exploration into the primitive nomadic elements of being human. ...

Cannibalisation: recycling of recyclings of recyclings [Asmus Tietchens : Fahl]

18/03/2015

Does the strategy of infinite recycling accrue a new aesthetic or degrade the existing one?...

High Definition sonic adventures: Joe Snape in 24-Bit

25/02/2015

aysayers love to make sweeping judgements about 24-bit sound reproduction. The physical capabilties of the human ear provide a favourite taunting point. What is the point of a technology which can...

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