“Petrovo Uho isn’t rigid, it is taut” ‘Petrovo Uho’ – the second album by Swiss talent Ben Kaczor – is all about tension. In particular, there
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AuthorSimon Whight
Results303A contributor to a variety of respected online publications, Simon joined the Inverted Audio ranks early in 2013. Bred on mother rave and nourished by the original strains of US house, he is someone who has lived through the first time deep house faced a backlash, the rise and fall of progressive house, and the multiple swings of fashion towards minimal, tech house, bass and beyond. As such, genres are not an important factor in critical appraisal, just good music that can stand on its own two feet. Be it uptempo or downtempo, alien or organic, everything is valid. Emotionless techno, needlessly abstract noise, derivative house and self indulgent muso-ism can all check their feet at the door. Bad taste in hats.
Eversines: New Place
“Undulating waves of synths, acidic crests, twinkling arpeggios, an urging bassline – everything here works in harmony” Observing evolving trends over the course of the months
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Ludwig A.F.: Air
“The approachability of ‘Air’ begs you to form your own personal connection. You may not find yourself in the mountain range of Taunus as you do
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MPU101: MPU102
“While the intrigue around the artist continues, so does the quality of their output” We were big fans of last year’s release from MPU101 on Ilian
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Eusebeia: Cosmos EP
“Cosmos packs an incredibly varied amount of sounds into an EP to the point where you feel like you’re absorbing the deftly sequenced and deeply textured
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Patricia: Less Than 7
Hardware maestro Max Ravitz aka Patricia steps onto the unerring Acid Test imprint for a 4 track EP that, unsurprisingly, centres around the Roland TB-303. In
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Dave Smith, the Father of MIDI, has died (1950–2022)
Yesterday saw the sad announcement of the passing of synthesiser luminary Dave Smith aged 72 (1950–2022), creator of arguably one of the most important synthesisers of
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Civilistjävel!: Järnnätter
“Järnnätter leans on elements of each that came before, and – for fear of sounding like a long suffering Autechre fan – it is the most
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DVS1 launches Aslice to make artist royalties frictionless
The subject of royalties for electronic music artists has been an increasingly hot topic of recent. The main thread has been spurred on by the Spotify’s
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Portable: My Sentient Shadow
“If you’ve somehow managed to miss the prolific Abrahams over the years, this is a superb point to jump in, his creativity and potency remaining undiminished”
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Burial: Antidawn EP
“Antidawn is hibernation incarnate, perfect to climb inside of and mentally pause until your alarm no longer rings on a pitch black morning” As I write,
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PST: Workshop 31
“As you would expect from Workshop, this is no rote journey through meandering deep house, there is an instinctual will guiding the tracks on their journey”
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Henrik Jonsson up next on Workshop with 2xLP as PST
Joining the ranks of Kassem Mosse and Zigtrax as one of the rare solo artists to land an album on Even Tuell and Lowtec’s highly regarded
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Priori: Your Own Power
“The balance of ‘Your Own Power’ is finely executed. Nothing here is a straight forward dancefloor cut, but the energy and emotion has not been dissipated
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Premiere: Farren Laen – Leave Me Now
Farren Laen‘s ‘This World’ was one our Best Extended Player’s of 2020. So it is good to see a follow up by the Canadian artist, returning with
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Premiere: Seiichiro Itoyama – Mal
For Berlin based Japanese artist Seiichiro Itoyama, the inception of his imprint Liminal has been synonymous with creating agency. His releases to date have been meditative,
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