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
Electro, the unsung hero of modern dance music, likes to lurk in the shadows of its more affluent associates, House and Techno. Where the latter two styles continually vie for attention on the dance floor, Electro favours the uncompromising margins of darker corners over the limelight. It’s a style that
“Rubber is a substance all alone. It takes on the character of the person who is wearing it.” – Helen Wellington-Lloyd from 1977 documentary Dressing for Pleasure. Latex is an unforgiving material. It neither breathes nor flatters, but give it time and it will mould itself to you like a
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
Benjamin Finger makes music that defies categorisation even on its most loser terms yet conspires in various releases that define a singular artistic voice. It’s music that purposefully strays from accessible beat-tape music to improvised electronics, perpetuating Benjamin’s desire to allow everything in his music and as such it has