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 →

Terminal 313 favourites of 2023, with the focus on ambient, dub, IDM and melodic electro, the tracklist included. TRACKLIST [artist – track – release (label cat. no)]  numün – Beyond – Book of Beyond LP (Shimmy Disc Shimmy-2015) Plant43 – Frost Walk – Silver Streams LP (Plant43 Recordings PLANT43008LP) PaulRead More →

On “Spektrum”, the Estonian artist Marko Sula aka Out-Or examines various sides of techno and IDM. By accommodating an array of styles into the album, he travels through different artistic identities, to bring us a diverse and well-crafted LP. At one moment, Out-Or is an eco-futurist in the Estonian homestead,Read More →

With determination and courage, Maxime Denuc set up a challenge between computer and organ. More exactly, in May 2021 the musician from Belgium steered electronically the organ in the St. Antonius-Kirche in Düsseldorf. Offering various forms of modern classical with an urban twist, “Nachthorn” doesn’t not sound out of placeRead More →

“Waves Of Silent Whispers” is Lauri-Dag Tüür’s second ambient and IDM album, after “Polar Night Jet” in 2020. The new one landed in my inbox already in June 2022. Though not forgotten, it spent most of the year underneath the ever-increasing pile of unfinished business. Instead of white nights inRead More →

Connecting Australia and Austria: Reptant, electro musician from down under who won many hearts and minds with the debut album “Return To Planet X’trapolis”, is warmly welcomed by the Vienna’s friendly inn TRUST, known for hosting electro artists from around the globe and now offering bed & breakfast to Reptant.Read More →

Though it can’t be said about recent weather, summer heat is peaking in Tallinn’s electronic nightlife, when the party listings of the Estonian capital are bursting in the weekends, despite of competition from numerous bigger and smaller events outside the urban sphere. In addition to the techno mainstay HALL atRead More →

Not sure if there’s any empirical evidence that during the pandemic people’s preferences turned to ambient music. Might be, because of its mostly relaxing nature and I have to admit that a number of the genre’s new releases have sparked my interest, either as arrivals in my collection or findsRead 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 →

***** Various – Carebot$ (Carebots) (Bass Agenda BA105 – 2020) A cavalcade of electro artists, virtually a Who’s Who of the genre have been summoned by UK’s Bass Agenda, for a good cause of supporting NHS and Médecins Sans Frontières. Before embarking on this charity mission, the label head AndyRead More →