Music
January 14, 2016
JC are the initials of Liverpool based producer JC, and the project’s self-titled debut via Phinery’s Speaker Footage imprint is his first outing under his own name… as much as initials can appear to constitute that, following obscured roles (on paper) in projects like Blackhoods,…
January 12, 2016
Jóhann Jóhannsson has for you the accompanying soundtrack to your edge-of-earth sea burial. Cello, voice, synthesizer, and electronics (from guests Hildur Gudnadottir & Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe) comprise the measured, mournful, ambient drone. End of Summer finds the Icelandic composer Jóhannsson…
January 9, 2016
#1 – 1.4.2016 – Denver based hyper-realist David Winkler, aka julien — who appeared on the recent Wasabi Tapes comp we mentioned in last week’s review — shared a brisk but vibrant preview mini-mix for his upcoming cassette with Orange Milk. It’s the first I’ve…
January 7, 2016
Hate Stadium bills itself as a label “based solely on YouTube . . . as a means to create a completely un-monetized label that focuses on individual artists’ creative drives and impulses,” so for the sake of those drives and impulses hopefully you don’t take issue with streaming…
January 6, 2016
The essence of “hip hop,” I think, comes from a love of recorded music and the cultural treasure it represents. A fondness for experimenting with musical possibilities. It snatches up pieces of heard music, or musical sounds, entangling them in their creative universe to make something new. SHMM,…
January 5, 2016
The debut from bouncy technoise project Kanelbjørn, titled Udkants-tripper, is among the few in-print releases left in Metaphysical Circuits’ last batch — mentioned briefly in our Week in Review #96. Details are light but the whole set is a particularly vibrant and varied window into…
January 2, 2016
Happy New Year! Hopefully 2016 is off to a great start for you and yours. Thanks for all your support and input in 2015. We’ll be rolling out our 2015 year end coverage shortly, but in the meantime, hopefully you can also find a few interesting bits here… or on our recent highlights mix…
December 23, 2015
Jeff Witscher’s (Rene Hell, et al) Salon imprint has seen a number of stellar CD-Rs appear this year, most notably the Samantha Vacation release that dropped in January. Daryl Seaver is the mastermind behind that project, producing slabs of damaged rhythms that are both aligned with dance forms…
December 22, 2015
Though we finished up with this episode early enough in the month that we managed to neglect even the most rudimentary holiday sentiments, we’re still proud to share the third episode of the Decoder Podcast in time for Christmas — thanks as always to Free Form Freakout and Decoder’s…
December 22, 2015
Jacek Mazurkiewicz is a Polish contrabassist with quite a beefy resumé, having been involved in a few jazz-based combos with documented evidence on the Multikulti Project label, and heading up the Modular String Trio. Solo, he records as 3FoNIA, augmenting his bass playing with electronics and loops….
December 21, 2015
The second Azimuth – an angle of measurement, despite its demon phonetics — that I’ve heard in as many months now arrives via extreme music imprint and zine Extreme Ultimate, courtesy of UK four-piece Dodmen. I thought the Quietus described them memorably as having “discarded…
December 19, 2015
We’re opening this week on a somewhat somber note — this week our friends Cameron Potter (Little Spoon, Deflector) and Virginia De Las Pozas (Couples Counseling) recently had gobs of equipment taken during a robbery (to say nothing of other possessions, or their roommates’ losses)….
December 18, 2015
Re:Collecting is an introverted album, a collaboration between Steven Hess (Locrian, Cleared, Pan•American, et al) and Rutger Zuydervelt (aka Machinefabriek) that steeps itself in memory, with Hess culling a selected audio-bank from his own tape archives and Zuydervelt processing what he’d turned…
December 16, 2015
Skeppet is Andreas Malm and Henrik Wallin, a longstanding Swedish duo and proprietors of the Kosmisk Väg label — a team that comes with all of the attendant psych proclivities you might imagine from the heads behind a label named Kosmisk Väg, “cosmic road” in English. They reconvened…
December 16, 2015
Indek is experimental music maven Jeremy Bible, proprietor of the Experimedia distro and a critical volunteer contributor to the Voice of the Valley festival in West Virginia. If you’re a regular reader you know we’ve been unpacking aural tidbits and related discoveries from the seventh…
December 15, 2015
Following incredible 12″s by Honzo and Somec, Milan-based experimental electronic label Haunter Records closes 2015 with another mind-blowing vinyl release, this time by Cage Suburbia, a duo consisting of label co-founder Daniele Guerrini (Heith) and Matthias Girardi (Weightausend). The four…
December 14, 2015
The last time I heard from the person-behind-the-curtain known as Log Across the Washer, I was picking my jaw up from the floor after hearing that particular spell of audacious narrative rock. Now working as Sven at Work, a hard left turn that is equally as shocking, and dare I say hitting every amazing…
December 12, 2015
#1 – 12.6.2015 – Ohio-based experimental noisemaker Khaki Blazer released a new album into the world; titled Clammy Mitts, the twelve track excursion sees Patrick Modugno orchestrating bubbling synth lines, whirring machinery, pitched vocal snippets, and various chirps and twitches into…
December 11, 2015
Korea Undok Group is a mysterious artist and label hailing from Winnipeg up here in Canada. There isn’t much information to be found online regarding who is involved, yet their first batch arrived earlier in the year, a pair of tapes one courtesy of the eponymous outfit and another from the equally…
December 10, 2015
Lisa Busby just released her latest compositions, Fingers in the Gloss, and the artist plays with textural, minimal noise and striking pop vocals. Busby’s vocal performance is beyond measured, a soft, sometimes stretching accompaniment to the repetitive layers of her noise. She constructs each…
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