The Formant

January 20, 2019 Mischa Mathys

Shackleton – Furnace of Guts / Wakefulness and Obsession

After a few long playing collaborations on Honest Jons, Shackleton returns to the EP format and his own label Woe to the Septic Heart! with the double header Furnace of Guts / Wakefulness and Obsession. The concept driven collaborations that preceded this release with of Anika, Ernesto Tomasini, and Vengeance

December 30, 2018 Mischa Mathys

Joy O – 81b

Joy O (Joy Orbison), his music, his labels and his DJ sets, is something of an enigma. There’s something indistinguishable but refined in his collective works that eludes classification, but somehow defines his work. There’s usually a moment of illumination when you realise a track is a Joy O track,

December 18, 2018 Mischa Mathys

An Interview with Mono Junk

Google, Imatra Finland. The screen projects a mural of picturesque views, snow-capped furs, bavarian-style castles, billowing rivers in autumn and scenic forest landscapes. Like something from a Grimm Brothers fairy tale, there’s something incredibly surreal and yet completely tangible about the Finnish hamlet from the computer screen. It’s the kind

December 13, 2017 Mischa Mathys

From me to you – An interview with Steven Rutter from B12

Steven Rutter from B12 has had a complicated history with electronic music. What should have installed him an Mike Golding into the annals of music, never really transpired, even though their records like Electro Soma and Time Tourist are considered modern classics today. We talk to Steven Rutter about how

December 1, 2017 The Formant

Resonant Sounds – November

In a musical landscape constantly dominated by hype, trend and the persistence of issuing control from a select few media outlets, we believe our role is to delve a little further and dig a little deeper to find the rarefied gems that operate at a subterranean level. The records often

November 16, 2017 The Formant

Suryummy – Photon Slobber

In the immediate future, nostalgia resides. It’s our future in retrospect, almost concrete but still exotic enough for uncertainty to remain. It’s here where Emmett Feldman’s Suryummy project lives, a musical construct that retrofits the future with a sound from an intangible past, intangible because it’s never existed. Surryummy occupies

November 8, 2017 Mischa Mathys

On the record – EP.2 with Robin Crafoord

Robin Crafoord is an artist, a DJ, and a facilitator and he warrants as one of the most innovative and progressive figures in Oslo’s electronic music scene. His musical career has been defined by a kind of all-encompassing machine music that has gone from Italo to Techno, and has always

October 27, 2017 Mischa Mathys

Kingdom Come: A beige noise

I haven’t felt this dismayed about electronic club music since House music moved into “lounge” bars in the summer of 2004 and joined forces with jazz in one of the genres more shadowy periods. It was a summer fedora-wearing pseudo boho chic “artists” forcing an improvised pedestrian saxophone, or some

October 11, 2017 Mischa Mathys

Hjemme med Dama – In conversation with Jan Mayen

In our digital age, music is no longer even a commodity item. It’s artistic value has long ago been monetised, but in the present it barely holds any commercial significance. Music being streamed, downloaded and even bought on a physical format like vinyl or CD, has no monetary value significance

October 9, 2017 Mischa Mathys

Resonant Sounds – September

We err on the dark side, with beats bearing teeth and sonic landscapes that’s dark and ominous in their delivery. These are the records forged in the brimstone basin of perdition, delivering punishing blow after blow and negating the obvious without straining the listener’s conscious capacity. These are records made