“Rubber is a substance all alone. It takes on the character of the person who is wearing it.” – Helen Wellington-Lloyd from 1977 documentary Dressing for Pleasure. Latex is an unforgiving material. It neither breathes nor flatters, but give it time and it will mould itself to you like a
Benjamin Finger makes music that defies categorisation even on its most loser terms yet conspires in various releases that define a singular artistic voice. It’s music that purposefully strays from accessible beat-tape music to improvised electronics, perpetuating Benjamin’s desire to allow everything in his music and as such it has
Approaching the history of dance music is like looking at a chasm of eternity through the eye of a needle. It’s a complicated immersive endeavour that can shift as a perspective on a single small detail. Even approaching a mere century of this music is difficult and the 20th century,
Jonathan Uliel Saldanha’s latest creative offering to the world, Tunnel Vision is an intriguing musical anomaly that’s piqued our interest for its incredible textures and conceptual framework. As a work originally recorded to soundtrack a Raz Mesinai film of the same name, it’s recently been revisited as an album, moving
What follows is part two of our extensive interview with No Part of It label owner Arvo Zylo. In the first part we came the know a label that existed as a money-order label before making the move to the digital realm, a label that thrives in the personable engagement
The entire existence of The Formant is based on engaging with music and the people that create and propagate it on a personal level. I favour the road less travelled; the difficult listening experience; and the confrontational underground above the latest trend. I‘d rather talk to the artist, the label
I’m listening “I can remember an incident with my mother, when I was quite small.” David Toop’s words are carefully measured, like he’s meticulously constructing a sonnet from thin air as he puts them together. It lends a kind of poignancy to everything he says, something that demands the listener’s
The last time I saw Stian Balducci he was hard at work trying to get the attention of a Resident Advisor editor to review his most recent +plattform release, tm22. He had fashioned a cardboard cut-out of the man and proceeded to get the avatar’s picture taken all around Oslo
The music of Equis demands the type of introspective listening experience that doesn’t allow itself to go by unnoticed. Her latest tape, from Infinite Waves gnaws and claws at your attention through the opening bars with erratic and obtrusive saw-tooth wave murmurs ticking down like a clock until a vocal
Oliver Ho’s impact in the world of techno has hardly been a subtle one. Since his ferocious debut in the ‘96 for Blueprint, he’s been cutting an individual path through the genre, one that doesn’t compromise and feeds off some primeval energy buried deep within his listeners. Oliver Ho’s resolute