Category: Features

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

“The face of ‘evil’ is always the face of total need. A dope fiend is a man in total need of dope. Beyond a certain frequency need knows absolutely no limit or control. In the words of total need: ‘Wouldn’t you?’” This is how William S Burroughs defines the “algebra

Bunki’s history as an artist is a new one, and yet it’s already fortified as something significant in electronic music, especially on the eve of the release of his sophomore EP, Turn. Turn finds Bunki solidifying the sound of his self-titled debut, with music that plays in the ether as