The following is kind of a top-six where I’m listing new releases in my collection, a few promos and interesting finds on Bandcamp that is becoming my favorite source for new sounds. It’s good to remind that on March 20th, Bandcamp artists netted USD $4.3 million, in a bright FridayRead More →
Buy vinyl from Aufnahme + Wiedergabe (DE) Buy vinyl from Juno (UK) Buy vinyl from Technique (JP) Masterpiece from an industrial knight The special appeal of Ancient Methods lies in the combination of archaic and modern. In 2009, when I became aware of this industrial techno legend, the wayRead More →
Astronomy Domine – Lammas (MM Audio MMAUDIO 008 – 2018) Despite of a few digital releases and a single-sided vinyl for Kapvt Mvndi, Astronomy Domine belongs to techno’s newcomers. His functional “Lammas” – which means ‘sheep’ in my native Estonian, but rather stands for ‘harvestRead More →
A diverse selection of nineties US techno With recent releases on Tar Hallow, Planet Rhythm and his own label Mechanism Industries, experienced US artist Fanon Flowers is not willing to send any signals about retirement. Born in Michigan’s Kalamazoo, a musically important location between Detroit and Chicago, current L.A. resident FlowersRead More →
Buy vinyl from Juno (UK) Buy vinyl from Metabanana (D) DOOM reborn, as a computer warfare edition When in 1993 The Mover’s debut album “The Final Sickness” came out on Planet Core Productions (PCP), a new video game called DOOM was about to hit the market.Read More →
After launching a new label Persephonic Sirens and releasing a solo EP on Candela Rising, this year’s duties are not over for Ancient Methods. Here are some news related to the industrial techno artist from Berlin. Interactive – The Techno Wave (Mecanica MEC028 – 2017) With “Who Is Elvis”, GermanRead More →
Ancient Methods – The Asking Breath Comes To Each (Candela Rising CAN008 – 2017) (Guest) vocals in a sampled form are not so uncommon in Ancient Methods releases, if to recall tracks under the Room 506 moniker and for Metaphysik. In the debut for Candela Rising, four acts are contributingRead More →
Sssssnake chhharmers from Sweden, not only linguistically challenging dark knights from SHXCXCHCXSH who boast over 6,300 followers of their empty Soundcloud account and believe in the power of ‘s’ in the new album for the UK label Avian. After initial rush to vitriolic roughness, when only to recall earlier catalogue entriesRead More →
Noisy synth and drone spillage from Berlin’s famed and feared 3TH Records that launch a cassette series with a release split between the ‘newcomer’ CSA (aka Ascion) and Lucindo. The A-side’s most intense moments come with CSA’s kick drum rush “eXeNTeSICUL” and dissonant mad man’s therapy “Devid S. Mystic Shower”, theRead More →
Ancient Methods has been a driving force behind the surge of dark industrial techno, a genre that is showing signs of saturation when numerous aspiring producers try to catch ‘the trend’. However, “Turn Ice Realities Into Fire Dreams”, the first Ancient Methods solo work in two years, proves that core values of industrial technoRead More →