Category: Reviews

Joy O (Joy Orbison), his music, his labels and his DJ sets, is something of an enigma. There’s something indistinguishable but refined in his collective works that eludes classification, but somehow defines his work. There’s usually a moment of illumination when you realise a track is a Joy O track,

In the immediate future, nostalgia resides. It’s our future in retrospect, almost concrete but still exotic enough for uncertainty to remain. It’s here where Emmett Feldman’s Suryummy project lives, a musical construct that retrofits the future with a sound from an intangible past, intangible because it’s never existed. Surryummy occupies

We err on the dark side, with beats bearing teeth and sonic landscapes that’s dark and ominous in their delivery. These are the records forged in the brimstone basin of perdition, delivering punishing blow after blow and negating the obvious without straining the listener’s conscious capacity. These are records made

A dissonant miasmic drone sweeps across Marc Kate’s Deface reducing the sharpened peaks and jagged troughs of his source material to a innocuous wispy ebb. The album hides an uncomfortable eerie dissonance in its sonic wake with the Californian artist yet again examining some socio-political discourse through his music. A

That elusive sweet spot between genres styles and ideas is where you’ll find the most progressive music. In the confluence between various musical dialects and traditions, there exists a moment where platitudes and familiar tropes are superseded for a new divine musical language. Where musical ideologies succumb under weight of

In a world where anything is available at your fingertips and mass consumerism and media has gentrified music into pre-defined packages, digging for new and interesting music has both gotten easier and harder. We constantly have to wade the shit to find those hidden gems, but with the internet we

Stochastic Resonance propagate an artistic intent in their music that forms a congruous flow of creative ideas, from live shows to apps through musicians to label/collective and back, forging something significantly their own in a time of consumerist media and perfunctory listening experiences. In a time when the ubiquitous brown,