Category: Reviews

In an age where everything is available to anybody and the only borders that exists are within the irrational mind, a sense of community is slowly unravelling, and while on a socio-political level this has its benefits, in music this has created something of a void. It’s a void where

An air of nostalgia swathes RX101’s debut record, Like Yesterday, as if like a chance encounter with an old friend, bringing back shared memories of some intangible ghostly past. You inherently know this music, even if you don’t know exactly how. You know it through the hiss of an overdubbed tape, electronics constrained

Lucy and Rrose are significant architects in this new paradigm of electronic music. Individually they distort, manipulate and redefine the borders between the avant garde and the dance floor, with music that neither conforms to – nor humours the status quo. They align principally within the idea of Techno as

Chihei Hatakeyama’s music spills out at you from some impossible reverie, creating a tangible dreamscape in music from some distant souvenir. His memories form in the abstract like a Joan Miró landscape painting, where mountains take on the shape of billowing clouds; water feels like silk; and the leaves rustling

If Adam Curtis is right and we are indeed living within a broken a system where the economy is a malfunctioning machine its creators don’t understand; democracy is a thinly clad excuse for a war machine; and our reality is just an illusion, then the only acceptable soundtrack to our

Benjamin Finger’s 10 marks the artist’s tenth contribution to the album format with a collection of songs that once again highlights the artist’s flouting artistic nature. From Woods of Broccoli to Amorosa Sensitiva Benjamin’s music only ever conforms to the moment he is working in, always exploring new boundaries where

After debuting in the LP format earlier this year, Bookworms returns to the EP format for Anòmia with Standards of Beauty, an EP that continues to showcase the American producer’s inherent prowess on the dance floor, while exploring the farthest reaches of the dance music universe. Bookworms’ strong relationship with

CAM’s Mirror Confrontations gestates out of the primordial ooze of improvisations with Foetus coming to life around incandescent frequencies feeding back on each other like some new evolution of an organic being. You immediately get wrapped up in a world of raw emotion where contrasting elements of terror and tranquillity

The term experimental is passed around music today like that moralistic social media comment that everybody’s eager to align with, but very few personify in any tangible reality. It’s something that goes to describe anything from improvised Noise to droning Techno with the experimental elements very often laid bare as

Composer is a work that calls into question the validity of its title by asking how much of what we discern to be music can indeed be considered composed. “The character of a rhythm can develop very simply/unconsciously with just a slightly different part of the hand hitting a drum,