The Formant

October 27, 2017 Mischa Mathys

Kingdom Come: A beige noise

I haven’t felt this dismayed about electronic club music since House music moved into “lounge” bars in the summer of 2004 and joined forces with jazz in one of the genres more shadowy periods. It was a summer fedora-wearing pseudo boho chic “artists” forcing an improvised pedestrian saxophone, or some

October 11, 2017 Mischa Mathys

Hjemme med Dama – In conversation with Jan Mayen

In our digital age, music is no longer even a commodity item. It’s artistic value has long ago been monetised, but in the present it barely holds any commercial significance. Music being streamed, downloaded and even bought on a physical format like vinyl or CD, has no monetary value significance

October 9, 2017 Mischa Mathys

Resonant Sounds – September

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

October 3, 2017 Mischa Mathys

Marc Kate – Deface

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

September 26, 2017 Mischa Mathys

Audun Kleive & Jan Bang – The Periphery of a Building

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between various musical dialects and traditions, there exists a moment where platitudes and familiar tropes are superseded for a new divine musical language.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

August 2, 2017 The Formant

Resonant Sounds – July

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

July 27, 2017 The Formant

Chasing UFOs – A Q&A with Kjolbjørn Lyslo

Born into one of the most prolific regions and eras of electronic music, Kolbjørn Lyslo represents a community of DJs and producers that has probably been the most creatively fertile per square mile, and that’s including Detroit and Chicago. Growing up in Tromsø in the eighties, Kollbjørn was the younger

July 19, 2017 The Formant

A Space Between – An Interview with Drox

One day, during a torrential rainstorm in Sydney, Australia, Adrian Burns felt particularly inspired to make some music. With the internet down and his day job resigned to the back of his mind he felt a creative urge nudge at him. It had been two years since his last self-released

July 13, 2017 The Formant

WAVE∞FORM with Per Martinsen

Cold, industrial noises interject cold stark planes, with a thinly veiled layer of frost entombing the fragile sounds in their own resonances. Like a lifeless radar station starts spreading a dormant signal after years of inactivity, Per Martinsen’s latest project WAVE∞FORM slowly gestates into life. A wholly ambient project, WAVE∞FORM

July 8, 2017 The Formant

55 presents UFO Lounge

UFO Lounge (Kolbjørn Lyslo & Per Martinsen) Per Martinsen (Mental Overdrive) and Kolbjørn Lyslo (Doc L Junior) land their UFO lounge at Hærverk. Charting the outer dimensions of electronic music with a special back to back set, the two Norwegian stalwarts, forego bland functionalism of the dance floor in a grand narrative