Category Archives: Electronic

*Press A* ~ Wonder Wickets, Katana Zero

Stijn van Wakeren ~ Wonder Wickets Wonder Wickets is a cheery mini-golf game with a happy soundtrack to match, taking cues from party games and underlined by a Japanese-game-soundtrack melodic sensibility that makes it just shine with color. Its classicality

*Press A* ~ Wonder Wickets, Katana Zero

Stijn van Wakeren ~ Wonder Wickets Wonder Wickets is a cheery mini-golf game with a happy soundtrack to match, taking cues from party games and underlined by a Japanese-game-soundtrack melodic sensibility that makes it just shine with color. Its classicality

David Chalmin ~ la terre invisible

This has been a good year for glockenspiels and chimes, which have graced such tracks as Dolphin Midwives’ “Temple V,” Quentin Sirjacq’s “Variations” and Snow Palms’ “Everything Ascending.”  Now Paris’ David Chalmin expresses his love for the timbre, while investigating numerous others

David Chalmin ~ la terre invisible

This has been a good year for glockenspiels and chimes, which have graced such tracks as Dolphin Midwives’ “Temple V,” Quentin Sirjacq’s “Variations” and Snow Palms’ “Everything Ascending.”  Now Paris’ David Chalmin expresses his love for the timbre, while investigating numerous others

Kotä Records ~ Spring Batch Part Two

We conclude our coverage of Kotä Records’ Spring Batch with three electronic releases and one field recording set.  But which is the future sound of Russia?  One thing’s for sure: the Moscow label has presented a plethora of choices. d.

Kotä Records ~ Spring Batch Part Two

We conclude our coverage of Kotä Records’ Spring Batch with three electronic releases and one field recording set.  But which is the future sound of Russia?  One thing’s for sure: the Moscow label has presented a plethora of choices. d.

Caterina Barbieri ~ Ecstatic Computation

Ecstatic Computation begins with one of the best tracks of the year, and ultimately proves to be a rewarding full-length listening experience.  Festival favorite Caterina Barbieri has been so prolific that one forgets she’s still a relatively new presence, exploding on the scene

Caterina Barbieri ~ Ecstatic Computation

Ecstatic Computation begins with one of the best tracks of the year, and ultimately proves to be a rewarding full-length listening experience.  Festival favorite Caterina Barbieri has been so prolific that one forgets she’s still a relatively new presence, exploding on the scene

Polynation ~ Igneous

As we noted in our Spring Music Preview, it helps to have a awesome cover.  Polynation‘s alluring art is matched by immersive music.  Igneous is cinematic, exciting and funky, a fitting score to an apocalyptic stampede (as Hessel Stuut’s art suggests), perfect

Polynation ~ Igneous

As we noted in our Spring Music Preview, it helps to have a awesome cover.  Polynation‘s alluring art is matched by immersive music.  Igneous is cinematic, exciting and funky, a fitting score to an apocalyptic stampede (as Hessel Stuut’s art suggests), perfect

Ebauche ~ Formic Syntax

After two decades in the industry, you’ve released a breakthrough album and made multiple year-end lists, including our own.  What do you do next?  Play it safe? Record more of the same?  Go to Disneyworld?  Ebauche does something different on Formic

Ebauche ~ Formic Syntax

After two decades in the industry, you’ve released a breakthrough album and made multiple year-end lists, including our own.  What do you do next?  Play it safe? Record more of the same?  Go to Disneyworld?  Ebauche does something different on Formic

Angelina Yershova ~ CosmoTengri

We all have some idea of what the words “shamanistic” and “ritual” mean in the context of music, and in general they’re associated to clear-cut rhythms and repetitive structures thanks to certain historical connections with the African diaspora. But Angelina

Angelina Yershova ~ CosmoTengri

We all have some idea of what the words “shamanistic” and “ritual” mean in the context of music, and in general they’re associated to clear-cut rhythms and repetitive structures thanks to certain historical connections with the African diaspora. But Angelina

Anna Homler ~ Deliquium in C

On Deliquium in C, American experimental musician and performance artist Anna Homler returns with four new tracks. Known for her early work as Breadwoman, which was conceived in 1985 and brought together improvised live performance, mystical sound recordings, and downright

Anna Homler ~ Deliquium in C

On Deliquium in C, American experimental musician and performance artist Anna Homler returns with four new tracks. Known for her early work as Breadwoman, which was conceived in 1985 and brought together improvised live performance, mystical sound recordings, and downright