Archive for the Electronic Category
Claudio PRC “Volumi Dinamici” (Semantica)
As a producer paying tribute to electronic music pioneer Luigi Russolo, Claudio Porceddu—AKA Claudio PRC—is in good company. In 2008, Jeff Mills created an installation based around the Futurist movement in which the Italian artist was a central figure. Six years later, Booka Shade held a 100th anniversary concert celebrating […]
RAMZi “Phobiza ‘Noite’ Vol. 2” (Mood Hut)
Phoebé Guillemot’s music can feel like alien terrain. As RAMZi, she twists exotic samples, percussion and vocals into something unfamiliar, making songs that seem to spread outwards and move in confusing patterns. A RAMZi track is like a living collage in which all the fragments are shifting. Phobiza “Noite” Vol. […]
Riohv “Green Room” (1080p)
Grab-bag 12” EP of electro, IDM, breaks and house from Montreal via Ottawa producer Riohv (aka Braden Thompson), which follows up the similarly map-jumping 1080-released “Moondance” cassette from back in 2014. Finding more confidence and proficiency in his own abilities as a producer, Thompson was able to have a lot […]
Yagya “Sleepygirls” (Delsin)
In June 2014, Icelandic producer Yagya will release his fifth album, Sleepygirls, across three slabs of vinyl and one mixed CD on Dutch label Delsin. It’s a deep, spacious and dubbed out affair that stays locked at a pleasingly sedentary tempo throughout. Since 2002 the definitive member of the Thule […]
Loscil “First Narrows” (Kranky)
Double vinyl LP pressing of this 2004 album including one bonus track. Warm, fuzzy, blurred electronics using real instruments and improvised performances from other musicians such as Jason Zumpano (Zumpano) and Tim Loewen (Destroyer). First Narrows is the third Loscil album and the first where Scott Morgan uses real instruments […]
Terry Riley “Songs For The Ten Voices Of The Two Prophets” (Beacon Sound)
Beacon Sound present a reissue of Terry Riley’s Songs For The Ten Voices Of The Two Prophets, originally released in 1983. Recorded live in Munich in 1982 using two Prophet synthesizers and voice, this album is a reflection of Riley’s ongoing interest in melding improvisation, electronic music, and the raga […]
Terry Riley “Descending Moonshine Dervishes” (Beacon Sound)
Beacon Sound present a reissue of Terry Riley’s Descending Moonshine Dervishes, originally released in 1982. Recorded live in Berlin in 1975, and largely improvised, Riley plays a modified Yamaha organ with variable resistors to facilitate tuning in just intonation. This is a 50+ minute recording divided into two halves for […]
Biosphere “Cirque” (Biophon)
Triple LP version. Biosphere is the main recording name of Geir Jenssen – a Norwegian musician who has released a notable catalog of ambient electronic music. He is well known for his works on ambient techno and arctic-themed pieces, his use of music loops, and peculiar samples from sci-fi sources. […]
Zos Kia/Coil “Transparent” (Cold Spring)
Double LP version. Comes in a gatefold sleeve with a 12″ booklet of unseen images and includes a download card. The entire Transparent recordings released for the first time, completely remastered from the unedited tapes. Zos Kia was formed by John Gosling (Mekon), John Balance (Coil) and Min – with […]
Ulrich Schnauss & Jonas Munk “Passage” (Azure Vista)
Passage is the second collaborative album from London-based synth-wizard Ulrich Schnauss and Danish producer Jonas Munk. 11 tracks of breezy, blissed-out electronica and colorful ambient. As the album title denotes, there’s a sense of movement in the music these two producers create together: a Schnauss and Munk composition starts one […]
Current 93 “Baalstorm Sing Omega” (Coptic Cat)
2010 release from the Experimental/Industrial music veterans, their most raw, powerful and hallucinatory album yet. The current formation of the group includes Eliot Bates, James Blackshaw, John Contreras, Baby Dee, Andrew Liles, Melon Liles, Alex Neilson, Bea Taylor, Isabel Taylor and David Tibet. The CD comes in a full-color digipak […]
Current 93 “Honeysuckle Aeons / Dreams Of The Crucifixion” (Coptic Cat)
2017 reissue on Coptic Cat! Following on from three of the most visceral albums in his recent catalog, Black Ships Ate the Sky, Aleph at Hallucinatory Mountain, and Baalstorm, Sing Omega, Current 93’s David Tibet turns in a collection that is everything that its predecessors weren’t, in sonic terms at […]
George Harrison “Electronic Sound” (Capitol)
As a direct result of The Beatles’ keen curiosity about experimental music and other avant-garde artistic expression, Apple Records launched it’s short-lived Zapple subsidiary in February 1969 as a forum for unfettered sonic exploration, or, as announced at the time, ‘more freaky sounds’. George’s Electronic Sound and John Lennon and […]
Dillinger Escape Plan “Irony Is A Dead Scene” (Epitaph)
A collaboration between Mike Patton (Faith No More, Mr. Bungle, Fantomas,) and The Dillinger Escape Plan, this four song EP is a wildly progressive amalgam of musical styles that combines the feral intensity of hardcore, the technical precision of metal, mind-boggling tempo changes and sonic textures usually associated only with […]
The Chemical Brothers “Surrender” (Astralwerks)
All eight of The Chemical Brothers’ studio albums have been reissued by Astralwerks, and are now available on double LP vinyl. Limited edition colored pressings of each reissue are also available! These special colored pressings are limited to 1,000 copies of each title. “Surrender” comes in solid blue.
Homeshake “Fresh Air” (Sinderlyn)
Born in the bleak isolation of the secluded prairie city of Edmonton, Canada, Homeshake’s Peter Sagar worked with friends in a number of local bands before picking up and moving to Montreal in 2011 to begin recording under the Homeshake moniker. Following two self-released cassettes (The Homeshake Tapes and Dynamic […]
Thievery Corporation “The Temple Of I & I” (Eighteenth Street)
2017 release, the tenth studio album from Washington DC duo Thievery Corporation. The 15 tracks, recorded on location in Port Antonio JA, finds the duo deftly blending their signature style with the classic dub, dance hall, and roots vibes that have inspired them over an illustrious 20-year career. Featuring vocals […]
The Avalanches “Since I Left You” (Modular)
Playful, twisted, psychedelic, sampledelic, delirious and infectious, it’s the sound of six men who spent most of adolescence rummaging through bargain bins in Melbourne’s record shops, constructing their own post-modern disco-pop amalgam from rubbish ’50s rejects and saccharine ’60s pap. “Our records make sense in their own world,” says Robbie […]
Bohren & der Club of Gore “Sunset Mission” (Pias America)
The substance we are seeking here lies beyond the bare bones of fact, the when and the where (founded in 1988, Mülheim an der Ruhr) or personnel and instruments. The story is more than the sum of its facts. Mysteries may very well lurk here or there along the way. […]
Bohren & der Club of Gore “Black Earth” (Pias America)
Pias present a reissue of Black Earth by the German doom jazz cult band, Bohren & der Club of Gore, originally released in 2002. Black Earth is a masterpiece and the perfect soundtrack for an imaginary movie experiencing the nights in a dangerous city. For fans of SunnO, OM, Max […]
Holovr “Anterior Space” (Further)
Anterior Space may strike some listeners of a certain age as an echo of the gilded age of “armchair techno” exemplified by Warp Records’s Artificial Intelligence comps. The convergence of the cerebral and the blissful in the four epic compositions Holovr (aka Jimmy Billingham) finesses from his analog and digital […]
Oto Hiax “Oto Hiax” (Editions Mego)
Editions Mego present the first full length release from Oto Hiax. Comprised of Mark Clifford (Seefeel) and Scott Gordon (Loops Haunt), Oto Hiax follows 2015’s acclaimed EP, One. Embracing a series of sonic opposites, Oto Hiax employs electronic and concrete sound to construct a labyrinth of moods, sliding from basic […]
Romans “Valere Aude” (The Bunker New York)
The Bunker New York present the second full-length album on their label: Valere Aude, the debut album from Romans, a collaborative project between New York techno producer Gunnar Haslam and Vienna-based acid evangelist Johannes Auvinen (aka Tin Man). Featuring 12 tracks of hallucinogenic, psychedelic techno, Valere Aude is an acid-etched […]
Loscil “Monument Builders” (Kranky)
Monument Builders is the 2016 album from Loscil, the ambient/electronic project of prolific composer Scott Morgan. It was primarily created on sample-based instruments in Morgan’s century old Vancouver home. Like that aged space, this music is also rough-hewn, with rickety samples of boiling kettles and resonant moving air. Recordings from […]