ACL 2015: Top Ten Electronic

When looking at this year’s staff selections in the Electronic category, I am struck by one glaring fact: none of these selections are typical.  There’s no straight-up house, techno or club music here, although we do cover such genres.  This may

Mai Mai Mai ~ Πέτρα (Petra)

Last year, we reviewed Delta, the follow-up to Theta; Πέτρα is an appendix to a trilogy that will end with next year’s Φ.  Mai Mai Mai is evolving as rapidly as the protagonist of Splice, and each installment has grown more ominous.  We like where this

Giovanni Lami ~ मेम वेर्म [mema verma]

Utilizing unintentional and incidental sounds produced with a shruti box, the latest solo work from Giovanni Lami is conceptually coherent and carefully arranged.   In the past, we’ve covered his work as half of Terrapin (with Shaun McAlpine) and Lemures (with