Derek Piotr’s music approaches the human voice with a curiosity that abstracts its literal connotations in the context of composition. He finds music in the most obscure processes of the voice, moulding it in the realm of the digital, to create evocative soundscapes that forge ahead in the experimental, absconding
The overwhelming nature of the Internet makes it incredibly difficult to keep my head above the waves of music that crash down around me everyday. Like television in the nineties, I keep flicking through the endless options, but rarely land on something I can stay with for even a moment.
Neida is the anthropomorphic essence of the sea imagined in the female form. Her wavy bosom expands with her luscious siren call, plucking at metallic chords that attempt to anchor the breathy synthesisers and sampled flotsam that drift over rickety percussive currents beneath them. Neida entrances her victim, luring the
The first time I met Ravi Brunsvik – coincidentally at the first 55 event – he laid down a challenge: “Can you write a review without using the letter ‘e’.” Quite an impossible task considering that in just two sentences I’ve used the letter eighteen times, but I keep it
When I hear Raul Vlădău’s voice breaking through the receiver, I can’t discern a note of fatigue. Not surprising considering it’s three in the afternoon on a Thursday, but quite unlikely in light of the fact that he’d just arrived home after a 500 km road trip through the heart
As I scramble on a Sunday to find a new piece of dance music to deliberate over, for the sake of content, I come up completely empty. Yes, there is new music out there, more so than ever, but there’s nothing that pop’s out at me, slaps me across the
The email I get from Claus Haxholm Jensen after our initial introduction is dotted with paraphrases, ideas trailing off into others, as I try to get to the bottom of his Assembler moniker and the concepts behind his latest album Quantum of Paths of Desire. The odd exclaimed “Ha” or
The recorded music industry is currently sitting at a very exciting crossroads. As streaming holds the key to music’s future distribution, nobody is quite sure how to estimate the value of music from this position. The options are endless and the roads all lead into uncharted territory. Not since the
Young Palace finds a rare innocence in music created in the perplexing world of experimental electronics. Beatific moments of unique introspective explorations always seem to find their way through the elements that squeak and strain with the harsh tonal attitude of industrialised electronic textures. Characterised by the inventive nature of
Peaks, the latest addition to the 20/20 vision discography brims with some ineffable underlining tone in the context of a dance release. It’s something not as clearly defined as an intriguing technicality nor is it quite as abstract as feeling, but something from Whitesquare’s newest four-track EP hits a very