With EOY lists, it’s good to wait until the last minute. Shortly before New Year’s Eve, Heiki Sillaste’s vigorous four-tracker crowned the year in electro. The title track breaks the wicked-o-meter when rough 808 beats and vocoder narration are clashing with a wall of buzzing acid, the final product readyRead More →
“Fenno Pagan Ritual” affirms Finland’s prominent position in the per capita ranking of electronic artists. The digital compilation, curated by Empath and released in trans-European collaboration by the Underdub Records from Portugal, cuts across many genres of electronic music and serves different moods with many quality tracks. For floor conquest,Read More →
The floor heating systems are switched to the extremes when the UK techno label looks back to a quarter century with twenty-five tracks from its catalogue. Of course, James Ruskin, the label’s co-founder with †Richard Polson, plays the main role with solo works or collabs. Either with Mark Broom orRead More →
New tracks from the Estonian techno project Killerkat, a driving force behind the HALL club in Tallinn, who is playing on the 1990’s pitch in the first halftime. Rooted in the spirit of Harthouse and Superstition, semi-trance “Ripple Drift” is paving the way to my favorite, “Cherry Tree”, a matureRead More →
Appearances could be deceptive. A Bandcamp release with three long tracks of about 45 minutes in total and abstract photo artwork by Hannes Unt, “Polar Night Jet” looks like another journey in the fields of ambient. It’s confirmed by the first tones of the opener “Arcus Cloud”, when gleaming soundRead More →
“To The Cosmos, Let’s Go!” was an adorable piece of fortified disco by Blacknecks, a short-lived super project of Tom Russell and Al Matthews. Half a decade later, many are still incessantly waiting for the duo’s return, which doesn’t mean that our heroes are idling about – Russell with hisRead More →
Speaking of an academic in electronic music, with Cristian Vogel we have a real one. Not only because of his impressive and long-lasting career as composer, sound innovator and DJ, with plenty of evidence about lifelong learning as an artist. On top of that, in 1995 Vogel graduated from theRead More →
In the 1990s Northern America, besides Detroit or New York techno rebels were spotted in Kalamazoo, a town of 75,000 in the state of Michigan. As the cradle of Black Nation Records and its artist roster consisting of Jay Denham (aka Vice, Fade To Black) , Chance McDermott, Fanon Flowers,Read More →
J. Lydén – 4.44 (black008 – 2017) A strong release from black., a label run by Albert Williams who drops a remix for the EP by J.Lydén, a Finnish newcomer with a sound close to fellow hardliners Tuomas Rantanen and Boner M. In “4.44”, the highlight is Judas’s supercharged dash withRead More →
Horsetail Horsetail from the UK are ‘makers of noisy outer space music’ from the abstract side of ambient and drone, which is well reflected in the title track and in “The Wound That Never Heals”. If to imagine it as a vinyl, the “B-side” turns out as the winner: distortedRead More →