Archive for the Electronic Category
Burial “Claustro / State Forest” (Hyperdub)
Without a doubt, ‘Claustro’ is an instant Burial classic. Lathering an ear-worming R&B motif (Brandy again?) into hair-kissing, lip-smacking skip-to-my-loops, he channels Steve Gurley on the cusp of hardcore into 2-step in a way that distinctly recalls his ‘Untrue’ cornerstone, and quite possibly heralds its follow-up on the distant horizon. […]
Various Artists “Outro Tempo II: Electronic And Contemporary Music From Brazil, 1984-1996” (Music From Memory)
The previously teased compilation documents a wave of experimentalism that emerged in post-dictatorship Brazil, moving the timeframe up a few years from the first collection, which spanned 1978 to 1992. By this time, the Brazilian popular music (MPB) movement had “lost its ability to articulate the social consciousness of the […]
People Plus “Third Space” (Mood Hut)
Third Space was inspired by a digital painting of a house by Marilyne Blais. A printout of the untitled work was pinned to the wall in Casa de Haiku studio, becoming an unexpected influence on the record. The duo realized early on they had started to imagine the soundscape inside […]
Edward “Underwater Jams” (DFA)
On his DFA debut, German experimental techno producer Edward largely departs from the 4/4 grid he frequents and blurs the focus towards a more slippery, improvisational vibe. Fans of his Desert Sky alias, as well as his work reshaping classic tracks by Harmonia & Eno and Rolf Trostel of Tangerine […]
Com Truise “Persuasion System” (Ghostly International)
For nearly a decade the story of Com Truise has relied on science fiction and abstract fact. Seth Haley’s singular style of melodic beat music subsists as hazy machinist nostalgia, a mainframe downloaded cosmology. Yet with each release, alongside sonic refinement, comes an increasingly visible vapor trail to Haley’s own […]
YU SU “Roll With The Punches” (Second Circle)
Second Circle are delighted to announce a five track EP from Kaifeng born, Vancouver based musician Yu Su, titled ‘泉出通川为谷 / Roll With The Punches’ Recorded on the Coast Salish territory in Vancouver, three tracks on the EP grew out of a live set Yu Su began developing in 2018 […]
Coil “Swanyard” (Infinite Fog)
Nearly 150 minutes of unreleased Coil recordings from 1993 to 1996, from Danny Hyde’s studio archives. The cover art is by Steven Stapleton and was specially commissioned for this album. It was inspired by a dream recalled by Jhon Balance. Audio mastering by Martin Bowes (Attrition) at The Cage Studios. […]
Wolf Muller Meets The Nile Project “Wolf Muller Meets The Nile Project” (Nouvelle Ambiance)
“In January 2016 arts and music organisation Santuri East Africa invited guest producer Jan Schulte to join the Nile Project gathering in Aswan, Egypt — an intensive two-week musical experiment featuring musicians drawn from all around the Nile Basin that functioned as both a creative cauldron for cross-border collaboration, and […]
Tracey “Biostar” (Dial)
A new addition to the label’s extended family, Tracey arrives on Dial with his debut LP, Biostar. Following previous releases on Aus Music, Voyage Direct, and Intergraded, Biostar pushes the technical and emotional craft of this vital young producer in exciting new directions, submerging listeners in thirteen tracks of sublime […]
Caterina Barbieri “Ecstatic Computation” (Editions Mego)
Caterina Barbieri is an Italian composer who explores themes related to machine intelligence and object-oriented perception in sound through a focus on minimalism. Following 2017’s acclaimed double-LP Patterns Of Consciousness (IMPREC 449LP), Ecstatic Computation is the new full-length LP by Caterina Barbieri. The album revolves around the creative use of […]
Black Zone Magick Chant “Voyage Sacrifice” (Shelter Press)
The latest liminal low-end odyssey from French shape-shifter Maxime Primault’s Black Zone Magick Chant entity swaps the screwed alien dancehall of past outings in favor of miasmic subterranean ritual, with compelling results. Born of “a few very intense sessions, in altered states of consciousness,” the three sprawling compositions comprising Voyage […]
Grauzone “Eisbar” (WRWTFWW)
WRWTFWW Records announce the official reissue of Grauzone’s essential 1981 maxi single with timeless classic “Eisbär”, proto-techno beast “FILM 2”, and romantic synth ballad “Ich Lieb Sie”, just in time for the 40th anniversary of the Swiss band’s formation. “Ich möchte ein Eisbär sein?” written by Martin Eicher after a […]
Tim Hecker “Anoyo” (Kranky)
Anoyo (“the world over there”) draws from the same sessions which led to the 2018 work Konoyo but rendered starker, solemn, and stripped back, with more of a naturalist tint. Tim Hecker’s processing here moves in veiled ways, soft refractions and whispered shrouds woven within improvisational sessions of traditional gagaku […]
Flying Lotus “Flamagra” (Warp)
Nearly 5 years after the last Flying Lotus album—the Grammy-nominated You’re Dead! and Flying Lotus’ stock has never been higher. The interim years have seen him collaborating with Kendrick Lamar on the classic To Pimp a Butterfly, directing and writing the Sundance-premiered “Kuso” movie, and producing much of Thundercat’s Drunk. […]
Stereolab “Mars Audiac Quintet” (Duophonic)
Remastered from original tapes. Bonus disk of unreleased demos, outtakes and alternate mixes. Co-released by band’s own label Duophonic UHF Disks and Warp Records. Fold-out poster insert with lyrics and sleevenotes from Laetitia Sadier and Tim Gane. Vinyl comes in bespoke gatefold sleeve with download card, housed inside a heavyweight […]
Stereolab “Transient Random-Noise Bursts With Announcements” (Duophonic)
Remastered from original tapes. Bonus disk of unreleased demos, outtakes and alternate mixes. Co-released by band’s own label Duophonic UHF Disks and Warp Records. Fold-out poster insert with lyrics and sleevenotes from Laetitia Sadier and Tim Gane. Vinyl comes in bespoke gatefold sleeve with download card, housed inside a heavyweight […]
Craig Leon “Anthology of Interplanetary Folk Music Vol. 2: The Canon” (RVNG Intl)
Comprising all new material recorded over the past 2 years, and made using similar technology and tekkers as his ‘80s classics, Leon’s sequel finds him riff deeper on the cosmic lore of Mali’s Dogon tribe of Mali, whose exhibition of art at the Brooklyn Museum in 1973 first inspired him […]
Steve Moore “Beloved Exile” (Temporary Residence)
Beloved Exile is the new studio full-length by Steve Moore, his first non-soundtrack album in over five years, and his first for Temporary Residence Ltd. A prevalent figure of the modern synth era, Moore cofounded the influential synth- prog duo, Zombi, and has scored more than a dozen feature films […]
Emily A. Sprague “Water Memory/Mount Vision” (RVNG Intl)
Emily A. Sprague’s Water Memory and Mount Vision are presented in new and vivid detail. Through sound and poetry, Emily’s craft focuses on fleeting moments of crystalline clarity and meditates on expanded lifetimes of intricate meaning-making. Memory and vision, ocean and mountains, question and answer, emotions and infinity. Sunshine, lizard, […]
Jura Soundsystem “Monster Skies” (Temples Of Jura)
Following the ‘Transmission One’ Double LP compilation of rarities & edits and the ‘Udaberri Blues’ split Dub single with Len Leise comes an extended EP of new original productions from Jura Soundsystem aka label head Kevin Griffiths. The 6 tracks touch upon a number of influences and styles with proto […]
Transllusion “The Opening Of The Cerebral Gate” (Tresor)
In between the re-releases of the two legendary Drexciya albums released on Tresor in ’99 and ’01, the Berlin techno institute is proud to re-present Transllusion’s “The Opening Of The Cerebral Gate”. For the first time music fans will be able to experience the whole journey on vinyl. The 3LP […]
Transllusion “Mind Over Positive And Negative Dimensional Matter” (Tresor)
Very deep & slightly dark electro of the absolute highest order, produced by James Stinson (Drexciya). Tracklist: ”Power Of The 3rd Brain”, ”Disrupted Neural Gateway” and ”Do You Want To Get Down?” Essential release.
Biogen “Halogen Continues” (Trip)
”Biogen offers listener’s fragmented shredding’s, constant irritations, glitches, imbalance—and enough creative ideas to supply a whole battalion of electronic musicians.”
Various Artists “When I Was 14” (Trip)
“When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.” трип 006 is an album constructed with […]