The moment your feet touch solid ground at Narita Airport in Tokyo Japan, a wave of calm and serenity envelopes you on the sonic plain. There’s a quiet, light hum from people scurrying to their final- or next destination, but filling the noticeable void where noise usually resides in western transport
As Misantrop, Nicolai Vesterkær Krog approaches his craft with a kaleidoscopic vision of music, where a tropical portrait comes to life from the most unlikely of musical sources. A debut artist, Misantrop’s alter Ego, Krog is no stranger to the recorded music universe, and our introduction came via some promo
Franck Vigroux toes an invisible line in his work, one that touches on a wide range of possibilities, congregating around the raw essence of an artist in the capacity of speaking many musical languages. The French composer and visual artist has many nodes to his work, touching on electro-acoustic, improvised
Electro, the unsung hero of modern dance music, likes to lurk in the shadows of its more affluent associates, House and Techno. Where the latter two styles continually vie for attention on the dance floor, Electro favours the uncompromising margins of darker corners over the limelight. It’s a style that
“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