Category Archives: Experimental

Sophie Delafontaine ~ Accord ouvert

Electro-acoustic music is an acquired taste, falling under the same banner as musique concrète and the lesser-used acousmatics.  For 20 years, Montreal’s empreintes DIGITALis has been releasing a steady stream of this intricate, fascinating music, bringing award-winning compositions to the attention

Sophie Delafontaine ~ Accord ouvert

Electro-acoustic music is an acquired taste, falling under the same banner as musique concrète and the lesser-used acousmatics.  For 20 years, Montreal’s empreintes DIGITALis has been releasing a steady stream of this intricate, fascinating music, bringing award-winning compositions to the attention

Forest Of Thorns: A Dornwald Compilation

Italian independent label Dornwald Records have unleashed a dark monstrosity with their Forest Of Thorns compilation. It’s an excellent release, a whopping sixteen tracks, big enough to rival Godzilla, drawing artists from around the globe into its spiral of leaves.

Forest Of Thorns: A Dornwald Compilation

Italian independent label Dornwald Records have unleashed a dark monstrosity with their Forest Of Thorns compilation. It’s an excellent release, a whopping sixteen tracks, big enough to rival Godzilla, drawing artists from around the globe into its spiral of leaves.

LYNXX ~ The Home of the Headhunter

The Home of the Headhunter is deeply weird, an immersive audiovisual experience that will make owners feel they’ve inherited a treasure.  The music is meant to be enjoyed with the 30-page mini-book, a phantasmagorical tale of a species born of a

LYNXX ~ The Home of the Headhunter

The Home of the Headhunter is deeply weird, an immersive audiovisual experience that will make owners feel they’ve inherited a treasure.  The music is meant to be enjoyed with the 30-page mini-book, a phantasmagorical tale of a species born of a

Fabio Perletta ~ Hesitant / Giovanni Lami & Glauco Salvo ~ Ife

These Dinzu tapes may be sold out, but they are still worth your time: subtle electronics, minimal formal constructions, and attentive material transformations from three of Italy’s most interesting musicians. As a small run tape label, Dinzu also gives these

Fabio Perletta ~ Hesitant / Giovanni Lami & Glauco Salvo ~ Ife

These Dinzu tapes may be sold out, but they are still worth your time: subtle electronics, minimal formal constructions, and attentive material transformations from three of Italy’s most interesting musicians. As a small run tape label, Dinzu also gives these

SP* Episode 5: B SIDES – with Dinzu Artefacts [podcast]

B SIDES is Sound Propositions’ first label profile, featuring Joe McKay’s Dinzu Artefacts. We talk about his previous label, Spring Break Tapes!, his own artistic practice (as Monte Burrows), the importance of listening to the quotidian, and the persistence of

SP* Episode 5: B SIDES – with Dinzu Artefacts [podcast]

B SIDES is Sound Propositions’ first label profile, featuring Joe McKay’s Dinzu Artefacts. We talk about his previous label, Spring Break Tapes!, his own artistic practice (as Monte Burrows), the importance of listening to the quotidian, and the persistence of

Kotä Records ~ Spring Batch Part One

Moscow’s Kotä Records unveiled 20 releases in its first eight years; now the label has released seven albums in a day, one digitally and six on tape.  This is a crazy and cool idea, and we’re all for it.  The

Kotä Records ~ Spring Batch Part One

Moscow’s Kotä Records unveiled 20 releases in its first eight years; now the label has released seven albums in a day, one digitally and six on tape.  This is a crazy and cool idea, and we’re all for it.  The

Stephen Cornford ~ Constant Linear Velocity

Consumer Waste is the perfect home for an album inspired by obsolescent technology.  Constant Linear Velocity began life as an installation (see this article on Fluid Radio), but after moving from country to country, the installation was lost; now all that

Stephen Cornford ~ Constant Linear Velocity

Consumer Waste is the perfect home for an album inspired by obsolescent technology.  Constant Linear Velocity began life as an installation (see this article on Fluid Radio), but after moving from country to country, the installation was lost; now all that

Richmond Avant Improv Collective ~ Lamentations

We love when labels put a little extra love into their releases.  Arachnidiscs offers Lamentations as a boxed set of “sound, vision and text,” including a set of photo cards and a series of short writings.  Then there is the CD, an

Richmond Avant Improv Collective ~ Lamentations

We love when labels put a little extra love into their releases.  Arachnidiscs offers Lamentations as a boxed set of “sound, vision and text,” including a set of photo cards and a series of short writings.  Then there is the CD, an