Category Archives: Electronic

Fall Music Preview ~ Electronic

From dub to industrial and Tanzania to Thailand, from an untitled album by an unnamed artist to a turntable album without records, our Electronic Music Preview has it all!  This adventurous slate is bound to appeal to the mind as

Fall Music Preview ~ Electronic

From dub to industrial and Tanzania to Thailand, from an untitled album by an unnamed artist to a turntable album without records, our Electronic Music Preview has it all!  This adventurous slate is bound to appeal to the mind as

abentis ~ Dim Grow

Nagoya’s leftfield electronic scene has recently garnered interest from the international music press. This is chiefly thanks to the efforts of  producer and all-around scenester Yuya Abe (abentis). abentis has been an associate of Facta & K-LONE’s Wisdom Teeth label

abentis ~ Dim Grow

Nagoya’s leftfield electronic scene has recently garnered interest from the international music press. This is chiefly thanks to the efforts of  producer and all-around scenester Yuya Abe (abentis). abentis has been an associate of Facta & K-LONE’s Wisdom Teeth label

Takkak Takkak ~ Abu

A Vilnius-based Indonesian composer and a Berlin-based Japanese producer have recorded an album in three different nations and released it on an Ugandan imprint. As a result, Abu sounds as if it comes from nowhere and everywhere at once: a “mystifying

Takkak Takkak ~ Abu

A Vilnius-based Indonesian composer and a Berlin-based Japanese producer have recorded an album in three different nations and released it on an Ugandan imprint. As a result, Abu sounds as if it comes from nowhere and everywhere at once: a “mystifying

Blak Saagan ~ Un Sequestro Lungo 10,000 Anni

In the digital era, it’s rare to encounter a project as ambitious as this: a triple-LP concept album available as a boxed set, including a book with a short story (in Italian) and 180 illustrations.  Un Sequestro Lungo 10,000 Anni is

Blak Saagan ~ Un Sequestro Lungo 10,000 Anni

In the digital era, it’s rare to encounter a project as ambitious as this: a triple-LP concept album available as a boxed set, including a book with a short story (in Italian) and 180 illustrations.  Un Sequestro Lungo 10,000 Anni is

Simi Fyda ~ In My Personal Heaven, I’m the Devil’s Spawn

Simi Fyda‘s In My Personal Heaven, I’m the Devil’s Spawn offers no gentle introduction. Compared to Yuri (2023), it works within a noticeably narrower palette. The bright contrasts of its predecessor have given way to a largely monochrome world, built

Simi Fyda ~ In My Personal Heaven, I’m the Devil’s Spawn

Simi Fyda‘s In My Personal Heaven, I’m the Devil’s Spawn offers no gentle introduction. Compared to Yuri (2023), it works within a noticeably narrower palette. The bright contrasts of its predecessor have given way to a largely monochrome world, built

Intertoto ~ Siccar Point

Geology and music often operate in symmetry; we tend to write of “sedimentary layers of sound” and “geological shifts.”  In January, we reviewed Paleo Soul, a rock album by Washington geologist Barry Walker Jr.  This month, we turn to Scottish

Intertoto ~ Siccar Point

Geology and music often operate in symmetry; we tend to write of “sedimentary layers of sound” and “geological shifts.”  In January, we reviewed Paleo Soul, a rock album by Washington geologist Barry Walker Jr.  This month, we turn to Scottish

art test ~ Foreign Lands

Some release an album a month, while others release an EP every couple of years.  art test belongs to the latter group.  2024’s fever dreams collected a series of carefully curated singles, and 2026’s foreign lands does the same, acting as a tiny mix tape.

art test ~ Foreign Lands

Some release an album a month, while others release an EP every couple of years.  art test belongs to the latter group.  2024’s fever dreams collected a series of carefully curated singles, and 2026’s foreign lands does the same, acting as a tiny mix tape.

Mohamed Bourouissa ~ LILA

Mohamed Bourouissa has long treated sound as an integral part of his artistic practice, but LILA marks the first time it fully steps into the foreground. Conceived as a “musical object,” the album functions as an inventory of relationships: each

Mohamed Bourouissa ~ LILA

Mohamed Bourouissa has long treated sound as an integral part of his artistic practice, but LILA marks the first time it fully steps into the foreground. Conceived as a “musical object,” the album functions as an inventory of relationships: each