DUST OFF: Top 15 electronic tracks from 1996
2016-12-07
It’s time for the end-of-the-year lists and this one is of different type. About 12 months ago I selected some almost vintage tunes, my favourites from 2005. Already then it was hard to resist the temptation to delve into the nineties, a really golden era of electronic music. Now itRead More →
REVIEW: Morphology – Frozen State EP (Vortex Traks VTX 004 – 2016)
2016-12-05
With “Frozen State EP”, Morphology has saved the best for last in 2016. After appearing on recent Vortex Traks mini compilation, the duo’s first solo effort on the label affirms that Michael Diekmann and Matti Turunen still have plenty of gas left in tank at the end of the year thatRead More →
REVIEW: RX-101 – EP1 (Suction Records suction032 – 2016)
2016-11-27
At the end of 1990s, Suction Records garnered much support for its synth and wave magic from Lowfish, Skanfrom, Mitgang Audio and others. Although in the last decade, the label from Toronto has been less in the limelight, it recently brought out a few notable records from the EBM and industrialRead More →
REVIEW: Sebastian Reuschel – The World Is Shit (ZCKR14 – 2016)
2016-11-24
With echoing creak, the door opens to the world of abandonment, spider webs covering a metronome that sets the pace towards the midnight. Diabolical noises are gradually growing to hardly digestible sonic oppression where the crudity has its certain charm. Fifteen minutes of the A-side’s “Exav 2B” are a tourRead More →
REVIEW: Reade Truth – A Bump Of House (Path Records Path-009 – 2016)
2016-11-17
Reade Truth is an offspring of Big Apple’s legendary Sonic Groove and a true American techno hero. Maybe not as lauded as NYC fellows Adam X or Frankie Bones, the producer with civil name Reade White has been equally keen in spreading the message of electronic music since the beginningRead More →
Sven Grünberg – Hingus (Bureau B BB 241LP – 1981/2016)
2016-11-03
Sven Grünberg is a real person and not a fictional Lufthansa engineer who secretly became electronic musician in the 1970s and appeared from the obscurity later. Grünberg, who turns 60 this November, was born in the Estonian capital Tallinn and cut his teeth in the local seventies bands Ornament andRead More →
REVIEW: Jack Murphy – Knowing Something 1 (KS 1 – 2016)
2016-11-01
After only three solo EPs – on Frozen Border sublabel Reference and Don’t Be Afraid’s Special Editions series – San Francisco resident Jack Murphy has decided to become a music publisher and launches his own Knowing Something imprint with a self-titled EP. The label debut can be only conditionally called techno becauseRead More →
Terminal 313 for Lower Parts mix
2016-10-26
In recent years, Lower Parts has become one of my favourite labels that has not only engaged international talents but also boosted a new generation of electronic producers from native Greece. When the label founder Panajiotis aka Asty Tekk asked me for a mix I felt really honoured. Now the resultRead More →
REVIEW: Dez Williams – The Vanta Series (VANTA 001 – 2016)
2016-10-19
Acidbanger, yes it is. The opener of Dez Williams’s recent twelve that launched Killekill’s new Vanta Series is a 303-based onslaught with ripples of human voice and biting synth squeaks that promise floor domination. The next track “Hornet Tea” is equally caustic with tidal waves caused by drilling groove while “Offonone” is howlingRead More →