Tropical September in the shores of Gulf of Finland is suitable time for giving a spin to the new various artists record by Meltdown Deejays Recordings from Helsinki. Grab your mocktail for an easy-going and warm session, conceived by four producers from Scandinavia. Two merited artists are playing it safe.Read More →
The CV of Nathan Plante is extraordinary for a fledgling electronic artist. His life in music started with the handbell choir at his family’s church near San Diego, California. In the elementary school, Plante took up the trumpet and ‘never looked back’. After studies at the San Francisco Conservatory ofRead More →
Finally, two greats of the Toronto’s scene – a label and an artist – are getting together. Despite a close connection to Suction Records, the city’s industrial and electronics pioneer Heiki Sillaste, or just Heiki, only now makes the label debut with the album “Valley Beyond”. In fact, the founderRead More →
Deon Jamar from Detroit drops his first release on the recently founded label Black Music, which was originally an art exhibit, concert, and party series founded by him and Brian Oscar. Jamar has now completed nine tracks in digital format and five of them have already landed on twelve inches.Read More →
My first encounter with GiGi FM is a pleasant one, when the intergalactic mermaid brings to us techno’s bearable lightness. The four-tracker “Movimiento” on her own Sea~rène imprint offers functional tools for the floor. Giulia Fournier-Mercadante aka GiGi FM resides and works in Berlin, and is a trained dancer, whichRead More →
In May 2024, Jako Krull joined Taavi Tulev aka HAPE for a gig in Hall, Tallinn’s real underground club, where, in fact, the floors lie over the ground. Their new project Plasma Blotter dropped a ecstatic PA of modular and caustic madness, at the 5th anniversary celebration of the HouseRead More →
A triple strike of party starters by a maverick startup called Diners Club International. Allegedly from the 313 area, the creators of three simultaneous records are playing hard in and around Detroit. Be it booty bass, electro, techno or house, they can handle them all. All three volumes are aRead More →
Since Motown, many new music generations have emerged from Detroit. Most notably the community around Underground Resistance, in the context of this blog. Equally important is that over the years, UR’s distribution powerhouse Submerge has been curating many interesting labels. A recent and impressive addition is Limited Network, run byRead More →
The Scottish duo Naum Gabo emerges from its initial (italo)disco corner, to explore the fields of experimental electronica, as heard on their debut album “F. Lux”. Naum Gabo are Jonnie Wilkes, one-half of Optimo, and James Savage, a prolific mastering engineer, who are molding abstract soundscapes, though not entirely neglectingRead More →
Terminal 313 favourites of 2023, with the focus on techno, electro, acid and more, the tracklist included. TRACKLIST [artist – track – release (label cat. no)] Suss – Gallup AZ – SUSS (Northern Spy NS156) VC-118A – Glub – Waves of Change (Delsin 157DSR) Galaxy of Flesh – As WeRead More →