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,
Hollow percussion, appearing as a fog out of some cavernous consciousness, beats against the unrelenting whine of feedback that eventually consumes everything in its path grabbing the listener by the ears like some totalitarian football hooligan with no apparent agenda other than to be confrontational. It serves as an introduction
Lumisokea are today at the forefront of a very intriguing and exciting development in electronic music. At a time when this music can be segregated into two categories: a formulaic beat-orientated dance rendering of dance music; or a purely machine improvised variation tied to Jazz and Classical music; Lumisokea have
In the three years Gang of Ducks have been around, they’ve created something truly niche in electronic dance music’s landscape. Today it extends beyond the small Italian collective it’s founded on and includes such esteemed names as, Traag, Ital and My Panda Shall Fly, while continuing to offer a platform
Techno has come to London’s east end and has assimilated with its environment, with a perfect mixture of camp and provocation threading through the genre for this release by the Violent Blondes. The production duo of Annabel and Nicola (no last names given) rely on a spartan percussive rhythmical basis, juxtaposed by sweeping atmospheric synthesised
Oliver Ho’s Broken English Club plays in the dark dystopian corners of a concrete jungle, taking electronic music to the most extreme corners of the dance floor. When confronted with the stark forceful confrontations of the music of BEC it’s no surprise he cites JG Ballard as an influence. It’s
Floating somewhere between the club ambiences of today and the driving Techno of the nineties that bares comparison to Biosphere and Autechre, arrives Pär Grindvik’s debut album Isle of Real and the debut long player for his Stockholm Ltd label. For those familiar with Grindvik’s densely orchestrated style of unforgiving,
After inaugurating Full Pupp’s next 50 releases and remixing Todd Terje, Øyvind Morken is moonlighting again. The imprint, and exclusive vehicle for Øyvind’s more esoteric productions, returns with a 12” double A-side featuring Distinct Dialect and Imaginary Dancer. It follows the Attenborough-inspired Jungelerotikk 7” of last year and sees Øyvind