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January 19, 2017 The Formant

Dekmantel UFO – A New Frontier

The Dekmantel name, which today carries it with it the kind of distinction and respect of an elder statesman of club music, outnumbers their years by some degree when it comes to their achievements. What started out in the latter part of the last decade in the minds of Casper

January 12, 2017 The Formant

Listen: Fredrik Handsome – Hochl

Tellstroem’s Djupet label, which bestowed upon us The Recognition‘s Jackin Beats last year via there free download channel, is back with Fredrik Handsome. The unknown artist has given Djupet Hochl as a belated christmas gift to download. Quirky guitars and eighties synth-pop arrangements spill over funky bass-lines a reverb-laden beats that engage with its audience on a

January 11, 2017 Mischa Mathys

Various Artists – Domestic Documents Vol.1

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

November 16, 2016 The Formant

Introducing – A Q&A with Misantrop

As Misantrop, Nicolai Vesterkær Krog approaches his craft with a kaleidoscopic vision of music, where a tropical portrait comes to life from the most unlikely of musical sources. A debut artist, Misantrop’s alter Ego, Krog is no stranger to the recorded music universe, and our introduction came via some promo

November 11, 2016 The Formant

Poetry in Music – A Q&A with Franck Vigroux

Franck Vigroux toes an invisible line in his work, one that touches on a wide range of possibilities, congregating around the raw essence of an artist in the capacity of speaking many musical languages. The French composer and visual artist has many nodes to his work, touching on electro-acoustic, improvised

November 9, 2016 Mischa Mathys

RX-101 – Like Yesterday

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

November 3, 2016 Mischa Mathys

Lucy / Rrose – Lotus Eaters

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

October 28, 2016 Mischa Mathys

Chihei Hatakeyama – Coastal Railroads in Memories

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

October 20, 2016 Mischa Mathys

Umwelt – Days of Dissent

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

October 17, 2016 The Formant

Benjamin Finger – 10

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