Various Artists ~ Fields

Compilation Week kicks off with an entry from the brand-new Fields Label, compiled by HXDK.  Last year the artist impressed us with The Letting Go; now he’s helping to call attention to some worthy artists in the field of drone.

Sujo + Sun Hammer ~ Fistula

Bring the noise!  When Public Enemy spat out these words 15 years ago, they probably weren’t thinking about noise like this ~ the fuzzed-out sound of power tools cranking, circuit boards overloading, buildings aflame.  Fistula is as violent as its title,

Sun Hammer + Radere ~ Lotophagen

Earlier this year, we reviewed separate releases by Sun Hammer + Radere on the Futuresequence label.  The two are friends, and this effort is not only a musical collaboration, but an expansion of that friendship.  Jay Bodley (Sun Hammer) changed states twice

Sun Hammer ~ A Dream in Blood

Sun Hammer is another pseudonym for Jay Bodley (A Setting Sun), and A Dream in Blood is an experiment in the random.  For this album, he attached patches to sine waves to see where they would lead.  In a sense, this technique calls upon